![]() ![]() ![]() ‘John is my literary punk godfather’, he has said. Hoare says he owes his career to John Waters, another Provincetown denizen, who gave his first book its front page review in the New York Time Book Review. Admission is free, but registration for the virtual presentation is required. at the Center’s offices and lab at 5 Holway Avenue in Provincetown and virtually on Zoom. The presentation will be offered in person at 7 p.m. ![]() Throughout the book, Albert & The Whale asks ‘does art have the power to save us?’ He witnesses the miraculous birth of Dürer’s fantastical rhinoceros and his hermaphroditic hare and traces the fate of the star-crossed leviathan that the artist pursued. Along the way, Hoare encounters medieval alchemists and modernist poets, eccentric emperors and enigmatic stars. In Albert & The Whale, Hoare sets out to discover why the work of 15 th century artist Albert Dürer endures. Since 2001, Hoare has visited Provincetown annually and the New York Times, in reviewing his most recent book, Albert & the Whale, called the author a ‘forceful weather system’ of his own. The Center for Coastal Studies begins its 2023 Napi’s Lecture Series on January 25 with writer, film maker and curator Philip Hoare. ![]()
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