On the rear wall of the nave at the Church of St. Mary of the Harbor in Provincetown is a triangular mural, Epiphany, painted by Robert Douglas Hunter. Religious iconography […]
Arts & Minds
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BOOKS
Jerome Cohen’s Life in Law
The China scholar, an ‘inveterate optimist,’ holds out hope for human rights
What a life Jerome Cohen has led: Modest New Jersey roots. An education in law at Yale. Clerkships with Supreme Court justices Earl Warren and Felix Frankfurter. Practicing and teaching […]
VIRTUAL REALITY
Bondage and Disentanglement in Three Dimensions
Carlos Zerpa focuses on underdogs in his political animations
Carlos Zerpa came to the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown from Venezuela as a visual arts fellow expecting to work on an animated film that he’s been developing for […]
IN THE MIDS
Demons on the Hour
Sara Martin is a death tourist, a mockumentarian, and a poet
Sara Martin takes a seat in the courtyard at the Fine Arts Work Center and turns her face toward the sun. It’s just past 2 p.m. “Two p.m. is a […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 17, 2025 through April 24, 2025
Images of Art and Community at Wellfleet Library Two Outer Cape artists and educators have opened their practices to one another and the public, and the result is the exhibition […]
HUMAN, NATURE
Susan Lyman Sculpts a Defiant Life Force
Beauty, sensuality, and destruction converge in works of wood and paint
In one of Susan Lyman’s sculptures, Washashore (Survivor), a white cedar tree is truncated just above the roots, like a figure cut at the torso. It stands upright, supported by […]
IN TUNE
Music of the People, for the People
Hildaland waltzes into the hidden corners of quietude and freedom
In the folklore of Orkney, the wind-and-rain-lashed, green-cliffed archipelago in the north of Scotland, “Hildaland” — meaning “hidden land” — is a paradisiacal island, invisible to most, that is the […]
Elena Kovylyaeva’s Creative Wandering
Looking at things that have been thrown away and waiting for something to happen
When Elena Kovylyaeva arrived in Provincetown in October as a Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow, many of the shops in town were getting ready to close for the […]
POETRY
Two Poems by Joe Cunningham
On His Way In minutes Timmy’s mastered his skim board, found the rhythm to toss it in front of his jump, and to land while in motion, as a man […]
HALF-REMEMBERED
Mengwei Ma Blurs the Bounds of Reality
A filmmaker fills the gaps with feeling and memory
On a Sunday afternoon in the cold, milky light of late March, Mengwei Ma, a visual arts fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, is making a film […]
ARTIFICE
Kevin Fitchett Is at The Masters
A FAWC fellow returns to Provincetown to write a novel about family, heartbreak, and golf
Five years ago, when Kevin Fitchett was a Fine Arts Work Center fellow for the first time, he mostly worked on poetry. Now he’s back, and fiction has taken the […]
Arts Briefs
Arts Briefs for April 11, 2025 through April 17, 2025
A New Season of 20 Summers Cultural history and political resistance are prominent themes in the five weeks of programming recently announced by 20 Summers for its 12th season. The […]
EVERLASTING RIPPLES
There’s Plenty of Hope in the Sea
In paintings and mixed media, Nancy Jenner finds beauty, inspiration, and a sense of herself
In recent years, the world has seemed especially cacophonous to artist Nancy Jenner. In a loud room, says Jenner, “I get quiet.” Her impulse is to travel inward, she says, […]
BOOKS
Gaza Has Broken Peter Beinart’s Heart
In a new book, he asks Jews to stop seeing themselves as victims
Peter Beinart, one of the most prominent public intellectuals on the American Jewish left, wrote in July 2020 that he had changed his mind about a “two-state solution” to the […]
SEMI-UTOPIA
An Artist Play-Acts His Way to Something Real
Ian Page explores the edges of things
Fine Arts Work Center visual arts fellow Ian Page arrived in Provincetown last fall from Los Angeles, where he had become interested in Wienerschnitzel, a fast-food chain that sells hot […]
