Art Archives

June 25, 2022

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...

Christopher Castellani

June 25, 2022

It was a dusty biography of Tennessee Williams, full of rumors and gossip, that inspired Christopher Castellani to write Leading Men, a novel as deeply entangled with Provincetown as with the life of Tennessee Williams himself. Castellani, 49, is the author...

Destiny’s Glitch at Fine Arts Work Center

June 25, 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...

Honoring Jo Hay

June 25, 2022

Provincetown artist Jo Hay has been named Arts Foundation of Cape Cod’s (AFCC) inaugural Artist of the Year. Ptownie readers have seen images from Hay’s series The Persisters in these pages in the past. The women featured in the series “are modern,...

Michael J. Andrews: We Are All Connected

June 25, 2022

Happy Cosmosis, M.J.A., November 25 2015 A.D.

By Jay Critchley Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you…. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid. (John 14:27) Provincetown is a storied art colony and a destination for creatives worldwide and also for those who seek to meet...

Napi Van Dereck – The Way It Used To Was

June 25, 2022

19 Milby, Frank, untitled (Provincetown seen from harbor) (1)

Thoughts by James Bakker and Christine McCarthy EARLY YEARS Like his collection of Provincetown art, Anton Napi Van Dereck was a “uniquer.” Although born in Chicago, Napi was conceived in Provincetown on Captain Jack’s Wharf and even bumped into Bette...

50 Years of Castle Hill

June 25, 2022

Castle Hill Celebrates 50 years with a New Outdoor Stage and Two Weekends of Dance. The Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill celebrates its 50th anniversary this summer with a stellar lineup of over 150 workshops and events, including a GalaBash on July...

A Thin Place in Beech Forest

June 25, 2022

With gratitude to Mary Oliver for While I am writing a poem to celebrate summer Follow in the wake of a fox’s faint twitches, her pauses and rolling pink shadow. Her sunstretching length, like the roses, flows along bog-edge and berm that have never been...

Art We Love – All the Colors of the Rainbow

June 19, 2022

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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,...

The Provincetown Theater

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...