A Musical Pirate Adventure In Melina Long’s 2003 children’s book How I Became a Pirate, young Jeremy Jacob is playing on a beach when he is enlisted by Capt. Braid […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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WORKING ORDER
Space to Create
Four artists on how they keep their studios functional and inspiring
Minimalism has grown increasingly popular in recent years, while messiness has been declared an obstacle to productivity. But artists were never ones to submit to rules or trends, and they’re […]
IMPROVISATIONS
The Key Is to Show Up
The Volunteers have found a regular home at Wellfleet’s Wicked Oyster
The air hums more than usual on Thursday evenings at the Wicked Oyster in Wellfleet. From 6 to 8 p.m., the Volunteers, a small jazz combo, occupies one low-lit corner. […]
EXHIBITIONS
Materials, Microbiomes, and Metaphors
A show of works by Fine Arts Work Center fellows is a snapshot of global contemporary art
When the visual arts fellows at the Fine Arts Work Cetner show their work at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the community gets an exhilarating peek at what’s afoot […]
BIG PICTURE
A Moment, Captured or Created
Liam Crivellaro is looking for something under the surface
Liam Crivellaro took his first photos when he was 14 or 15 — he was riding BMX and wanted to document it. He lives in Chatham, but Wellfleet, where he […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 30, 2024 through February 6, 2025
The Creative Business of Cape Cod Artists Thirteen Cape Cod artists — painters, printmakers, illustrators, writers, and performers — have been selected by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod to […]
ARTISTS
In the Studio With a Phenomenologist
Adam Matthew Graham revisits realism and American values
Evening’s colors and rain figure in many of Adam Matthew Graham’s paintings, especially in his streetscapes, where the glow of lamplight or the shimmer of a puddle suggests that the […]
ON THE PAGE
The Music of Language
A poet brings the past, both personal and political, out of the shadows
Martha Collins’s haunting, intimate poems are a form of conversation with readers on subjects as varied as her family history, racism, politics, and, most essentially, the poet herself, “the body […]
PATRIOTS
Jay Critchley Flies His Flag(s)
In a provocative and humorous exhibit, an artist takes aim at big oil
Visitors to Jay Critchley’s Provincetown studio never know what they’ll encounter. In the ground outside his door, there’s a cesspool that he renovated into a whitewashed space complete with a […]
RADIO
Spinning the Classics
WOMR DJ Felice Coral wants listeners to ‘feel the music’
When Felice Coral drove back and forth between her family’s house in Eastham and her place in Boston, she would tune in to WOMR, Provincetown’s community radio station, as soon […]
BIG PICTURE
Storm Chasing in the Studio
Experiments in being sculptural
In a recent series of encaustic works, artist and Castle Hill director Cherie Mittenthal turns her attention to storms and boats. The pieces, she says, are influenced by her lifelong […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for January 23, 2024 through January 30, 2025
A Live Simulcast of a Grand Opera The 19th-century Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi — who kept the scores of Beethoven’s string quartets on a shelf near his bed, shared a […]
CROSSWORD #59
Point of Sale
GALLERIES
Simie Maryles Is on the Move
After 26 years, the Provincetown painter will have a new space
If you have strolled along Cemetery Road at night and looked up at the Pilgrim Monument, you may have noticed, just underneath it, a well-lit studio and a painter working […]
BIG PICTURE
Reflections in the Badlands
A chance encounter with a Townsend’s solitaire
The Townsend’s Solitaire defends two worlds — the juniper grove and its reflection. Endlessly he sings on the sill between. That first winter after my brother died unexpectedly in fall […]
