Art of Catharsis

The Rev. Paul R. Shanley is one of the Boston priests who has been charged with child sexual abuse, and he is living in the trendy Cape Cod burg of Provincetown while awaiting trial. The new arrival didn’t sit well with one Provincetown artist, who was very nearly one of Shanley’s victims as a child. So when Mike Ware “heard of a proposal to create site-specific art installations in the Meadows Motel… he decided to furnish a room for ‘this one person who really affected my life.’ So Ware designed his contribution to the exhibit, which opens tomorrow in Provincetown: a jail cell for the Rev. Paul R. Shanley.”