Photography
PHOTOGRAPHY
Peter Hujar Reveals the Truth Behind the Joke
A small show of the late photographer’s work exposes the valences of camp and drag
In the 1960s and ’70s, before they were a tragedy, gay men were a joke. Because gay men are tastemakers and cultural aristocrats, the joke was a good one — […]
PANDEMIC LOGBOOK
The Webbs Are Navigating Waves of Change
A collaborative photography book charts one couple’s pandemic experience
“I was looking out the window, waiting for words that did not come,” says Rebecca Norris Webb of sequestering herself in Wellfleet early in the pandemic. Outside, her husband, Alex, […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
Rowland Scherman Focused on Hope, Not Darkness
Talking his way into a job as the first Peace Corps photographer
Ukraine, Covid, the GOP, the radical right’s takedown of the Supreme Court — take your pick, or feel free to add your own favorite bogeyman that keeps you up nights. […]
NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
At the Beech
The Beech Forest Trail off Race Point Road in the Province Lands of the Cape Cod National Seashore beckons spring birdwatchers and seekers of peace. (Photo by Agata Storer)
ARTISTS
Horror Movie Imagery Meets Indigenous Identity
Jeremy Dennis’s Rise series says, ‘We’re still here’
“Noam Chomsky made the comparison that zombies are a reflection of fear and desperation, and that we in the United States try to make something that we’re oppressing into something […]
EXHIBITIONS
Joel Meyerowitz Comes Home
A show of faces and places from a past Provincetown
When Joel Meyerowitz started taking photographs of the Outer Cape in 1976, it was a break from the 35mm point-and-shoot work he was doing on the streets of New York. […]
IN THE STUDIO
Grace Hopkins’s Pristine Workspace
It complements the modernist house inherited from her father
Grace Hopkins doesn’t maintain an artist studio in the traditional sense. It is more of a processing center where she uploads digital photographs before printing them on squares of canvas […]
Art and Photography for a New Year
The theme of this end-of-year art and photography edition is “The Divine Comedy,” after Dante Alighieri’s epic poem written in the first years of the 14th century. Its three sections […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View this Week
The original three sisters lighthouses fell into the Atlantic in 1890. Their replacements ended up on Cable Road in Eastham. (Photo Nancy Bloom) A Danaus plexippus and a Buddleja davidii […]
PHOTOGRAPHY
In View This Week
A driftwood sculpture stands tall, face to the wind, at Newcomb Hollow Beach on Saturday, Oct. 9. (Photo Teresa Parker)
PHOTOGRAPHY
Zach Oren Gives Visibility to a Trans Nation
With a clear eye and open heart, he captures the ‘Ides of Gender’
Zach Oren is not cagey about who he is. Even though there’s little biographical information available about him online, he’s forthright in explaining how he got to be the person […]
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 […]
THE HOUND
In View This Week
Capt. Josh Rowan’s dog, Admiral Finn, a Staffordshire Terrier, enjoys the Bloodhound’s 70-foot teak deck. The cutter, now in Provincetown, is a 1990’s replica of an 1874 racing yacht. Rowan […]
ARTISTS
Elise Kaufman Attempts the Impossible
Her mixed media works capture light and memory
“Memory and how we remember, what it looks like … it’s very elusive, very fleeting,” says the artist Elise Kaufman. “So much of what I think about is light and […]