Day-trip Worthy Exhibitions to See This Summer Around New England
Our Picks by BAR Staff ONLINE • 06/15/2022
Boston Art Review
Hop on the ferry from Boston or take a drive through the otherworldly dunes of the Massachusetts coast to Provincetown. In this fishing village turned queer arts escape, you’ll find over forty-five art galleries, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and a whole lot of pride.
Each Friday evening throughout the summer, the Provincetown Art Gallery Association leads their Gallery Stroll, inviting all to adventure through new and notable exhibitions along the town’s main streets. A few highlights this season include Jane Paradise’s decade-long Ptown-based “Dune Shack Series” at Alden Gallery, a group show focused on women’s often-overlooked side of sex culture and history now at Art Market Provincetown (AMP), and a full season of shows at Schoolhouse Gallery that captures Ptown’s essence as a place of shared escape, including a selection of Boston-based artist Joel Janowitz’s restless paintings alongside toile embroidery by Richard Saja and tactile, sculptural oils by Tess Michalik.
While you’re there, don’t stay inside too long or you’ll miss the town’s abundance of natural beauty. I’ve heard a sunrise at Herring Cove is one for the bucket list, although, with my strict following of the Anthony Bourdain-inspired guidance to always wake up in Ptown with some kind of “burn” (“If something doesn’t hurt—a lobster-red arm, a thudding head, a twinging heart—you did it wrong,”) I’ve not yet managed to catch it. Someday.
– Presley Ackeret
