TRURO — Teddy Ment and Eleanor Getz, the two halves of the acrobatic performing duo Teddy and Eleanor, have spent the past six summers at the helm of Payomet Performing […]
Arts & Minds
Celebrating the creative and sometimes quirky culture of the Outer Cape.
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PAINTING
Chet Jones Looks Beyond the Material World
With his canvases, he seeks to understand a deeper landscape
The painter Chet Jones normally doesn’t talk to journalists about his art. “I’m very unpromoting,” he says. “I know that’s a sacrilege to say, because so much art is built […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Francis Olschafskie Develops Antique Negatives to Surreal Effect
An exhibit of vintage black-and-white photographs meets its moment
“I loved the darkroom, but the world changes,” photographer Francis Olschafskie says, a light wind scattering his raspy voice. “These prints were sort of an end for me.” Olschafskie, whose […]
ART EDUCATION
At PAAM, Tessa Bry Taylor Makes Sure the Kids Are All Right
Youth programs continue online and outdoors
“We are seeing unprecedented challenges in youth and art education,” says Tessa Bry Taylor, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s new curator of youth education. She took over the position […]
THE ART OF CRISIS
Coronavirus Shutdown Inspires Cynthia Packard
Live-stream classes spark a creative surge
Before the pandemic, celebrated and influential Provincetown artist Cynthia Packard was blocked for two years — she hardly painted. Every time she tried, she would feel the urge to wipe […]
GALLERIES
What’s Real About Robert Goldstrom’s Art Is His Unerring Style
Just as fish gotta swim, he’s going to paint what he sees
“I am generally a rather high-strung, tense person, anal retentive,” Robert Goldstrom says, speaking from his home in Claverack, N.Y., near Hudson, in the Hudson River Valley. “Compared to most […]
PSYCHEDELIA
Andrew Jacob Keeps the Spirit of Graffiti Art Alive
A joyful Eastham show riffs on surf culture and rebel art heroes
When Wellfleet artist Andrew Jacob was a teenager, he painted freight trains and abandoned buildings. “At night we would sneak out,” he says. “There was kind of a ‘code of […]
OUTER CAPE PORTRAIT
The Mermaid’s Grange
JULIA SALINGER / ARTIST, WRITER & ACTOR / WELLFLEET When she was in New York City, Julia Salinger worked in art galleries and the music business. She produced records and […]
PAINTING
A Master Class With Paul Resika
He has a show in Provincetown, a new book, and 80 years of experience
Paul Resika’s studio in Truro is strewn with clam shells that he uses to mix his paints — orange ones, turquoise ones, mustard yellow ones. They are like little distillations […]
GALLERIES
Paul Bowen Washes Back Ashore in Provincetown
A show of new work reflects his roots here and abroad
“The beach used to smell like hell,” sculptor Paul Bowen says. He is seated at a workbench in his studio on the top floor of a rugged barn that was […]
QUEER ‘I’
PAPA’s Got a Brand New Gig
The Provincetown Theater strikes the right note during sustained crisis
In the summer season of Covid-19, there’s more drama playing out in the Capitol and White House than on the stages of the Outer Cape. That role reversal is not […]
AUTHORS
Cooper Lee Bombardier Turns His Transgender Story Into Art
He’ll give a virtual reading of his new memoir in Provincetown
“Before I knew I was a human being and not a dog, my earliest sense of myself was male. I am just a funny sort of guy. I don’t hate […]
BOOK REVIEW
In Memorial Drive, Poet Natasha Trethewey Revisits Her Mother’s Death
A daughter’s memoir untangles trauma and grapples with festering grief
In “Monument,” a poem in Native Guard, Natasha Trethewey describes watching ants bring soil up from her mother’s grave. “Believe me when I say/ I’ve tried not to begrudge them/ […]
BACH TO BASICS
Get Ready to Baroque and Roll
Music of the 18th century thrives in Provincetown
PROVINCETOWN — Boston may be a mecca for it, but there is authentic Baroque music happening right here on the Outer Cape. Great Music on Sundays @5 is presenting two […]
IN MEMORIAM
The Poet of the Dunes Brought Down to Earth
Recalling Harry Kemp on the 60th Anniversary of His Death
Fewer and fewer people these days have a clear idea of who Harry Kemp was. Some might recognize his name from Harry Kemp Way, the road in Provincetown where Outer […]
