Art Archives

June 12, 2022

By Byron Crawford The artists washed up on the shores of Provincetown in waves. First came the painters following their prophet Charles Hawthorn. Close on their heels came actors, writers, and colorful personalities that would form the foundations of a...

Fine Arts Work Center

June 10, 2022

For more than 50 years, the Fine Arts Work Center (FAWC) has provided vital support to the next generation of emerging visual artists and writers through its renowned fellowship program. If you haven’t visited FAWC’s campus on Pearl Street lately, now is...

Next-Gen Provincetown Looks Inspiring

December 10, 2021

NEXT-GEN Ptown: Who do you know? Welcome to ptownie’s Next Generation issue! I started formulating this idea over a year ago as I began noticing a shift, a change, a new energy in town—creativity across the board, from art to activism and everything...

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November 29, 2021

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Art We Love & Why: Sculpture

October 1, 2021

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Art We Love & Why – Off the Wall With the abundance of beautiful paintings in Provincetown galleries, you could be forgiven for taking your artistic nourishment solely from oil on canvas. And the same could be said for prints and photographs. But this...

Art We Love & Why – A Moment

September 9, 2021

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Art We Love & Why – It Only Takes a Moment Art can do many things – it can inspire, it can provoke, and sometimes it can just make you smile. In these tumultuous times that’s a pretty neat trick. The pieces here don’t really have anything in...

Art We Love & Why – Small

August 26, 2021

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Art We Love & Why – Less Is More Art can be like real estate – you get used to paying by the square foot and to thinking that bigger is better. Walking around the galleries this week, I was struck by how many works of small scale were grabbing my...

Art We Love – The Next Generation

August 25, 2021

Art We Love – The Next Generation By George Rogers It’s easy to spot well-established artists, the ones whose reputations and price tags grow with every passing season. But identifying a future star is a little trickier. There are plenty of talented young...

Art We Love & Why- People

August 13, 2021

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Art We Love – We the People The human figure, people, has been a favorite subject for artists ever since they first started scrawling on cave walls thousands of years ago. Every age has had its artistic take on the human body, from idealized Greek gods in...

Art We Love & Why: Bravado

July 27, 2021

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Art We Love & Why – The Bold and the Beautiful As is true for most of us, there are some works of art that draw me in instantly. But It’s only when I get closer and understand more about a piece that the initial infatuation may turn to love. I admit...