When a new medium was unveiled in 1839 that miraculously seemed to fix images from an ever-changing reality onto a permanent surface, the British scientist and polymath Sir John Herschel […]
Provincetown Art Association and Museum
RETROSPECTIVE
A Maverick Artist’s Many Faces
Provincetown celebrates Philip C. Malicoat with paired exhibitions
Moisture, fog, the piney essence of forest and dunes — to commune with these in a Philip Malicoat landscape or seascape is to experience that certain slant of light when […]
CANVASES
Behind the Scenes With Malicoat’s Larger Works
A conservator copes with Cape Cod’s environment and with the paint itself
Few viewers are conscious of what goes on behind the scenes to keep a museum’s collection not just intact but resistant to the unrelenting effects of time. But conservator and […]
ARTISTS
For Christine Niles, Bigger Isn’t Better
Capturing Provincetown’s light in small paintings
Christine Niles’s narrative challenges the myth, mostly believed by nonartists, that artists are born and not made. “I always enjoyed the arts, but I didn’t feel myself drawn to them […]
ARTISTS
From Black Resin Disco Balls to Cryptic Sky-Blue Paintings
Kevin Brisco Jr. considers his art a ‘container for concepts’
Kevin Brisco Jr. paints too slowly, he says, for that to be his focus as a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center. Instead, he is working mostly on conceptual […]
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. […]
EXHIBITIONS
Three Months In, FAWC Fellows Have Been Prolific
Painting, drawing, sculpture, and installations at PAAM
Each year, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum welcomes the Fine Arts Work Center’s visual arts fellows with an introductory exhibition that gives a glimpse into their creative world three […]
ARTISTS
Nancy Bowen Makes Intergenerational Amends
Through her installation, the Salem witch trials reverberate
Walking through Spectral Evidence, Nancy Bowen’s installation at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, is humorously odd and gravely unsettling in equal measure. Twenty squat grave markers with wings and […]
our picks for the week of Sept 2 through August 8
Indie’s Choice
Watch Like a Hawk (Thursday, Sept. 2) Truro Connections — a collaboration between Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, the Truro Historical Society, the Truro Meeting House, and […]
Cut and Paste (Tues.)
Next in the Provincetown Art Association and Museum’s online series of Fredi Schiff Levin lectures, art historian Mary Abel will discuss the work of Leo Manso on Tuesday, Aug. 24, […]
‘SALLY’ in Wellfleet
The interdisciplinary SALLY Project focuses on “using art to activate the public memory of women, like Sally Hemings, whose lives have been erased or marginalized.” Hemings, an enslaved woman, was […]
Art by the Square Foot
The Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St., holds its annual members’ 12×12 exhibition and silent auction beginning Friday, July 30 and running through Sept. 26. With more than […]
Francis Olschafskie’s ‘Shiver’
“The Silent Side of a Shiver: Photographs by Francis Olschafskie” is an exhibition, curated by Breon Dunigan, at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, 460 Commercial St., opening Friday, July […]
Art’s Sake
Josephine Halvorson will give a virtual talk via the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, part of its Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series, on Tuesday, July 13th, from 6 to 7 […]
Leo Manso at PAAM
“Leo Manso: Collages and Other Works,” an exhibit curated by Christine McCarthy at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, opens Friday, July 2nd and runs through October 17th at 460 […]
