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Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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ARTISTS
Jesse Ceraldi’s Floral Paintings Blossomed Amid Covid
The artist, restaurant owner, and teacher says her work is a measure of her love
“Flowers and love are both timeless and fleeting,” says Jesse Ceraldi. “A flower is an emblem of nature’s continuity, yet a beautiful bouquet dies in front of your eyes. In […]
THEATER
For Sallie Tighe, the Outer Cape Is Both Stage and Salvation
She and a corps of local talent will once again put on ‘The 24 Hour Plays’
The thing that reassures Sallie Tighe the most about “The 24 Hour Plays” — the annual Presidents Day tradition at the Provincetown Theater — is that she doesn’t have to […]
TALKING POINTS
From New York to Truro to Russia and Back
Journalist turned novelist Karen Dukess interviews authors for Castle Hill
Beginning next week, writer Karen Dukess is hosting a series of virtual talks with authors of new fiction and nonfiction via Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill. On […]
MUSICIANS
Eric Maul Is Provincetown’s Rebel With a Flute
His weekly online tootin’ is classical sass
“I moved here in the summer of 2019,” says Eric Maul, a Provincetown-based, classically trained flutist. “I’d been living in Boston for five years, and I just wasn’t getting what […]
ARTIST RESIDENCY
Wellfleet’s Modern Houses Are Still Laboratories for Collaboration
Four artists from Brooklyn make the most of 10 days in October
A storm rolls toward the Outer Cape, stirring the ocean’s waves and sending shivers through the pine forest. Unperturbed, a lone figure dances on the deck of the Kugel/Gips House, […]
INDIE SCREEN
Stories That Straddle Fact and Fiction
‘It’s only a movie’ is not always reassuring
How odd in an era of “fake news” accusations — usually a case of childish denial, or a con artist’s switcheroo — to see a movie called News of the […]
BOOK REVIEW
The Story of America Through Hand-Crafted Objects
Glenn Adamson’s new history looks at under-represented talents
Perhaps you are turned off by standard American histories, from expensive textbooks to doorstop-sized biographies of Important Men. You might find descriptions of the conflict between Thomas Jefferson and Alexander […]
ORGANIC ART
Drew Carnelli’s Sculptures Grow From the National Seashore
His anonymous creations are inspired by a love for the Cape’s dunes
Drew Carnelli sets off down the beach, a stick to ward off coyotes in one hand, a bait bag for collecting trash in the other. He wanders the Outer Cape […]
MUSEUM TOUR
Napi Van Dereck Exhibit Sequel Opens at PAAM
Works by noteworthy women artists are featured
An exhibition of artworks from the collection of Napi and Helen Van Dereck opened last Friday at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. The first installment of this show took […]
GRAVEYARD SHIFT
The Loneliest of Lombards
On a woods walk, the burial place of a family affected by another pandemic
WELLFLEET — Deep in the woods of Wellfleet’s Bound Brook Island, a path padded with pine needles and slashed with filtered sunlight rises and dips, showing the way to a […]
MILLION-YEAR PICNIC
How the Moon Pulls Us Into the Tidal Bulge
The Sun adds its weight to spring and neap tides, too
The tide comes in and out twice a day, sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower. It’s so much a part of our daily lives that it’s easy to […]
NAVIGATING BY THE STARS
More Heart, Less Roar
With the full Moon in Leo, count your blessings
The last time the Moon was full in Leo was in February of last year. Remember those days? How blissfully ignorant we were back then to the imminent and significant […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lew Schwartz Turns His Eye to the Outer Cape
In his scope of vision, every picture tells a story
“Clear mind, tabula rasa, the four corners of the frame, calm breath,” photographer Lew Schwartz says as he prepares to shoot. “Someone on the street brushes away a mosquito, waves […]
MIXING MEDIA
Berger and Motherwell: An Artistic Friendship
The past isn’t always black and white, or red and black
A red sky is bisected by a darker red column, shadowed in black. Affixed are three paper fragments. The one at left is sheet music from Arthur Berger’s Trio for […]
