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Art We Love – Lightning Strike

One of the great bonuses of being an artist is the ability to meet and interact with other artists. In these moments, the work they produce becomes more than an artifact, it becomes an extension of the times we’ve had together, the conversations, the laughs and the inspiration. All the works featured in this piece...

Art We Love – More than Meets the Eye

The first impression a piece of art makes when you walk into a gallery can be thrilling. But sometimes what’s even more exciting is discovering that what you see up close is not at all what you thought you saw from afar. All of the pieces here had that element of surprise for me in...

Art We Love – Never Out of Style

This being the Fashion Issue, it’s worth noting that art can be a lot like clothing: in or out of vogue. There are fads and trends in art, and just like clothes some art can feel dated or deeply rooted in a particular time. But as with vintage Chanel and the pieces here, some art...

Jennifer Pritchard, Stay Here Provincetown

Art We Love & Why – I Am a Camera

When photography first came along, many artists turned up their noses and asked, where’s the “art” in a photograph? Of course, over time photography came to be as respected as painting or sculpture. And the range of expression in photography over the past century has exploded. The works featured here only hint at the diverse...

Terry Boutelle, Opening (acrylic on canvas, 20” x 30”), AMP

Art We Love & Why Provincetown- Landscape

Art We Love – The Lay of the Land For some people, “landscape painting” may conjure up an old-fashioned, sedate art form – something to put over the sofa. But every artist sees the world around us through a unique lens, and the landscapes here are anything but staid. They’re also a reminder of the...

Art We Love & Why: Living Legends

In Japan, the artists featured here would be formally recognized as “Living Treasures.” Each of them has had a long and celebrated career spanning generations. And each of them continues to make work, not to burnish their reputations but because it is the essence of who they are–endlessly creative and continually exploring. They are role...

Art We Love – All the Colors of the Rainbow

There’s a palpable burst of energy coursing through town this week as the season gets underway. And I’ve seen a corresponding explosion of color in the galleries. I guess we’re all longing to live life in full color after the past couple of years, so what better way to kick off the season in Provincetown...

Art We Love & Why: Sculpture

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 week I want to make the case for sculpture. Most of...

Art We Love & Why – A Moment

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 common other than that they drew me...

Art We Love & Why – Small

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 attention. Some of the...