To visit the lot between 471 Commercial St. and Angel Foods in Provincetown is to stand on a precipice of potential energy. Here, where Cape Cod Bay licks the sea […]
Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
The Decisive Moments of Constantine Manos
An exhibit looks at decades of work by one of the masters of the art
Two men kneel in prayer in a modest church, one shielding his face from a light perhaps only he can see. A single note played by a group of classical […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Eye on a Momentous Era
Eastham library showcases Rowland Scherman’s photographs of the civil rights movement
In the multipurpose room at the Eastham library, a small group of Nauset High School students are organizing a gift-wrapping station to raise money for their prom. Business is slow, […]
NEW YEAR'S CARD
2024: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Was everything better way back when? In the news pages of this end-of-year issue, we asked reporters to look closely at the towns they cover, delving into the sources of […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A House and Its Reflection
Robert S Johnson turns his focus on one house and the history of Blackfish Creek
Pleasant Point is a spit of land in Wellfleet that juts out into Blackfish Creek. It’s like Cape Cod or Provincetown in miniature: not a place you drive through, but […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Images That Capture What Is Almost Lost
Susan Mikula’s work illuminates moments just as they slip away
“I was raised in a family that loved art,” says photographer Susan Mikula. “When somebody opens that door and does not say, ‘Don’t go through it,’ that makes all the […]
TIME TRAVEL
Arnie Charnick Keeps on Boppin’
An epic-scale photomontage brings the Provincetown of four decades ago back to life
Over nearly two weeks in August 1982, Arnie Charnick and his then-girlfriend Cherie Nutting walked around Provincetown photographing the town and its inhabitants. “We didn’t make a list or anything,” […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
David Hilliard Brings Light to the Shadows
A pair of exhibitions feature collaborative portraits of a community that transcend time and place
“Our houses are our biographies, the stories of our defeats and victories,” wrote Mary Heaton Vorse in Time and the Town, her memoir of early 20th-century life in Provincetown. Vorse’s […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
A Downtown State of Mind
Stephen Aiken’s 'Artists in Residence' resurrects a long-vanished New York
When Stephen Aiken arrived in New York in 1973, the deteriorating, crime-ridden city was practically bankrupt and nearing one of the lowest points in its history, one still remembered for […]
LOCALS
Jim Zimmerman Connects Provincetown’s Past With Its Present
PAAM’s resident jack-of-all-trades is a fountain of institutional and community knowledge
Jim Zimmerman — camera around his neck — greeted me in the lobby of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum and led us through the museum’s expansive galleries with the […]
BOOKS
Barbara Bosworth Keeps an Eye on The Sea
Finding beauty reflected in texts and objects
One of Barbara Bosworth’s most prized possessions is a collection of bird eggs she inherited from her great-grandfather, who collected them in the wild, blew out their interiors, and saved […]
IN THE STUDIO
Cole Barash’s Photographic Adventures, Near and Far
Exploring subcultures, communities, and the relationship between humans and the natural world
WELLFLEET — Last April, Cole Barash spent three days on the back shore making photographs to accompany a Thoreau-inspired essay by Eileen Myles called A Walk on Cape Cod. During […]
IMAGE AND MEMORY
Life in the Dunes Through Jane Paradise’s Eyes
The photographer’s story of Provincetown’s dune shacks in pictures and the words of those who love them
The 19 dune shacks in the Peaked Hill Bars Historic District of the Cape Cod National Seashore might be the most famous Outer Cape landmarks that many people have never […]
VISIONS
Seeing the Invisible
Two photographers reveal hidden realms of light
Photography usually depicts what we see. Sometimes, it also shows us what we can’t. There are hidden realms on either end of the spectrum of light we perceive when we […]
HOT SHOTS
Bobby Miller’s Decisive Moments
45 years of a fabulous life behind the lens, on view at AMP Gallery
It happened one evening at Studio 54: Halston entered the legendary nightclub and was about to check his coat and fur hat. Ten feet away, Bobby Miller spotted his prey […]