Carol Procter was only the third woman cellist hired by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The Boston Symphony Orchestra year was 1965, and Procter was in her early 20s, recently graduated […]
Arts & Minds
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Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan 20 through Jan 26
A ‘Beloved’ Art Show “Creating Beloved Community,” a youth art show about racial justice, runs through Friday, Jan. 28 at Wellfleet Preservation Hall, 335 Main St. The show, organized by […]
ARTISTS
What Julian Cardinal Wants to Paint
Avoiding labels, and the color green
Painter Julian Cardinal will tell you straight up that he doesn’t like green. “It’s a difficult color to work with,” he says, without a hint of self-consciousness, as if expressing […]
ALBUM REVIEW
Taking a Walk With Sensible Shoes
A band with Outer Cape ties releases its debut album
The Vermont- and Cape Cod-based band Sensible Shoes spent last summer gigging on the Outer Cape before quietly releasing its debut album, See It My Way, in August. Billed as […]
BOOKS
Humanizing the People Behind an Epic Case
Joshua Prager’s The Family Roe is praised by both sides of abortion debate
Joshua Prager was hitting one dead end after another in 2010. A former senior writer for the Wall Street Journal and the co-founder of Provincetown’s Twenty Summers series, Prager was […]
STREAMING
Binge-Watching Without the Guilt
Picks by Independent staff and contributors
The White Lotus, HBO Max Although Mike White’s new series is set at the posh, isolated Hawaiian resort of the title (actually, the Four Seasons in Maui) and filled with […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan 13 through Jan 19
A Patron’s Collection at the CCMoA Donations from generous patrons are the lifeblood of regional art museum collections. A case in point is Ann F. Bengtson, a former Falmouth resident […]
ARTISTS
For Stephen Wells, ‘The Sky’s the Limit’
A Truro artist modernizes the traditional Provincetown print
If you’re ever in Pilgrim Framing admiring Stephen Wells’s paintings, be warned — the artist, who operates the shop out of his Old Firehouse Road home in North Truro, might […]
CODA
Delving Deeper Into Provincetown’s Musical History
Sometimes the best discoveries happen post-publication
Last summer, I received an intriguing Instagram message: “Hi, my name is also Saskia, but that’s not why I’m messaging you. I was Googling and came across your article on […]
IN THE STUDIO
Grace Hopkins’s Pristine Workspace
It complements the modernist house inherited from her father
Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas […]
BOOK REVIEW
Meditations on the Tangled Cords of Jewish History
Dara Horn reckons with an anti-Semitic past and present
Organizations including the Pew Research Center, Anti-Defamation League, and American Jewish Committee all report an increase in anti-Semitic incidents in the last several years. These incidents have ranged from Holocaust […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for Jan 6 through Jan 12
‘Pulp’ Fiction at the CCMoA Jane Eccles is best known for sensitive and vibrant plein air paintings of the Cape. But she also makes art using colored paper pulp. This […]
Art and Photography for a New Year
The theme of this end-of-year art and photography edition is “The Divine Comedy,” after Dante Alighieri’s epic poem written in the first years of the 14th century. Its three sections […]
INDIE SCREEN
The Wild, the Innocent, and the 125th Street Shuffle
Streaming the highlights of an end-of-year season
The title of Jane Campion’s haunting new film, The Power of the Dog (streaming on Netflix), comes from Psalm 22 in the Bible, which reads (in the King James version), […]
COMMUNITY
Contra Dancers Find Connection in Wellfleet
‘It doesn’t matter if you’re dancing with a woman or a man, gay, straight, or trans’
“Dance and swing. Turn your partner round and round! Chain across. Face your neighbor and do-si-do,” says John Alden over a microphone at Wellfleet Preservation Hall. “Looking good!” Alden is […]
