In the text accompanying James Balla’s Into the blue again, the catalogue for his 2013 show at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, he wrote, “Good art is always elegant. […]
Arts & Minds
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JAZZ
What’s New at Newport?
After last year’s Covid cancellation, the festival returns
The pandemic has surely dealt a blow to jazz, which, like a mythical beast, is prone to periods of obsolescence during which nearly everyone in the kingdom declares it dead. […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
GALLERIES
The Indelible Life and Landscapes of Brenda Horowitz
At 89, she continues to interpret the Outer Cape in brilliant color
“I’m always working,” Brenda Horowitz says, sitting in her North Truro studio with her right wrist wrapped in a tight bandage, the result of a recent fall. “I don’t stop. […]
ARTISTS
Janice Redman Explores the Secret Life of Objects
Her sculptures make amends with the past
“My work is always somehow connected to the body, to something that feels intimate,” says Janice Redman. In her Truro studio, she works surrounded by sculptures in various stages of […]
ARTISTS
Dina Brodsky Finds Her Scale
Her tondo paintings are exquisite Cape glimpses
“There are internal painters, and there are external painters. I’m very definitely external,” says Dina Brodsky from Falmouth, where she’s on vacation from New York City. “I’m interested in the […]
THEATER REVIEW
Redemption for an American Holy Warrior
Witnessing Nat Turner in Jerusalem at WHAT
It is said that history is written by the victors, and in the case of the slave rebellion led by Nat Turner in August 1831, a time of rising abolitionist […]
THEATER REVIEW
Brenda Withers Cooks Up a Delicious Dindin
A quarrelsome Harbor Stage quartet makes mincemeat of a meal
As a fund-raiser, some Harbor Stage Company supporters watched an online table reading of Brenda Withers’s new play, Dindin, last fall. That may have offered a taste of Withers’s trenchant […]
BOOK REVIEW
Martha Minow’s Warning on the Future of a Free Press
Digital gerrymandering, she argues, drives the internet newsscape
Forty-five percent of U.S. newsroom jobs evaporated between 2008 and 2017. In 2016, less than a third of people in one survey trusted mass media. The doomsday facts about the […]
DANCE
Provincetown Dance Festival Makes Its Live Return
This time, it has a new outdoor stage, à la Tanglewood
Last winter, the Provincetown Dance Festival met viewers in their living rooms. Dancers emerged from the shadows, pirouetted, and leapt across the stage — but all within the confines of […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
A Blue Moon in Offbeat Aquarius
When the seasonal Full Moon bathes you in light, howl your holiness
Shining from the Piscean edge of Aquarius, Sunday’s full Moon is a seasonal “blue moon” — a phenomenon that occurs, well, once in a blue moon. Also known as the […]
LISTINGS
The Week Ahead in Provincetown Drag
The Art House Ginger Minj, Thurs.-Sat. & Wed. at 9 p.m., $40 Crown & Anchor Varla Jean Merman, “Little Prick,” Thurs.-Sat. & Tues.-Wed. at 9 p.m., $49 Dina Martina, “Chariots […]
ARTISTS
Han Feng’s Sculptural, Intimate Photographs
The pandemic gave her The Gift of time
Stories abound of artists hunkering down in their studios during the pandemic, creating uninterrupted, as they did when art wasn’t a business — before they knew about galleries, commissions, or […]
MUSICIANS
Adam Ezra Group Builds Community
A band that is greater than the sum of its parts
“There is nothing that can bring people together more effectively than music,” says Adam Ezra, who will be performing with his group at the Payomet Performing Arts Center on Friday, […]
