“It’s the sensibility that people relate to — the design. It’s very clever,” says Jim Bakker, unfolding some of Vernon Smith’s famed batiks — fabrics dyed with a wax-resist method […]
Bakker Gallery
‘Provincetown Printers’ at Bakker Gallery
Bakker Gallery will host a show of “Provincetown Printers” opening Friday, Aug. 13 and running through Sept. 6. The “Provincetown print” is a unique woodcut tradition developed in 1915 and […]
Contemporary Group Show at Bakker Gallery
Running through Aug. 15 at Bakker Gallery is a contemporary group show featuring Susan Pecora, Megan Hinton, John Laporta, and Andrea Sawyer. The gallery, located at 359 Commercial St. in […]
GALLERIES
Previously Unseen Works by Knaths and Weinrich
A hoard, from the estate of John Hord, comes to light
One of the first works that you see upon stepping off Commercial Street into the Bakker Gallery is a graphite drawing by the artist Agnes Weinrich. It shows a woman, […]
Karl Knaths and Agnes Weinrich Rediscovered
A show of recently rediscovered works by Karl Knaths and his sister-in-law Agnes Weinrich will be on view at Bakker Gallery, 359 Commercial St. in Provincetown, in a show opening […]
Jim Bakker, Artist
Jim Bakker — best known as a powerful advocate for Provincetown art, especially historic women painters, through his shows and auctions — is also an artist himself. He will be […]
PROVINCETOWN CLASSICS
The Bold, Fantastic Art of Dorothy Loeb
Reckoning with a woman artist’s local legacy
If you want to see Dorothy Loeb’s paintings, the best place to go is not a museum but the Residences at Seashore Point, at 100 Alden St. in Provincetown. Specifically, […]
HERITAGE
Mischa Richter’s Paintings: Nothing Cartoonish About ’em
A new exhibit at Bakker Gallery recalls a Provincetown artist’s fine artwork
Though Mischa Richter was widely celebrated as a cartoonist, at The New Yorker and elsewhere, he painted fine art canvases seriously and steadily throughout his life. He said of his […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for July 30 through August 5
Now Screening: ‘Clay,’ Short Film on Potter Steve Kemp Michael Cestaro was born and raised in Eastham, graduated from Nauset Regional High School in 2004, and left for college in […]
our picks for the week of July 16 through July 22
Indie’s Choice
Outer Cape Calendar Streaming Readings The Wellfleet Public Library is hosting a virtual poetry reading on Zoom with Heather Corbally Bryant, Tzynya Pinchback, and Lynne Viti, on Thursday, July 16, […]
Arts Briefs and Listings
Arts Briefs for May 28 through June 3
Swim for Life Does More Than Tread Water Instead of having a crowd of people running into the bay at Provincetown’s beach, this year’s Swim for Life & Paddler Flotilla, […]
PLAYERS
Spencer Keasey’s Lifelong Quest
From porn to Provincetown with the Bakker Gallery’s manager
When Spencer Keasey picked his porn name, Spencer Quest, it was because he felt as if he were actually on a quest — for sexual and spiritual freedom. For a […]
