Atypically formal for a collegiate event, ushers dressed in black tie greeted concertgoers and a grand piano graced the stage of Salomon 101 Tuesday night. Gathering to hear Cheol Woong Kim, a concert pianist and professor of music at Paekche Institute of the Arts in South Korea, speak and perform, ...
Rising from the ashes of now-defunct Issues Magazine, Synecdoche launched this semester as the newest literary arts magazine on campus. In contrast to Issues’ focus on creative writing, the fledgling publication will expand to include visual arts and will strive to facilitate a conversation between ...
The poetry of Pilar Fraile Amador, widely published in her native Spain, uses words to create and explore surreal spheres of personal and political identity. In a bilingual recitation, Lizzie Davis ’15 will open the door to these worlds for English-speaking readers with her translations of Amador’s ...
SnoTea Caffe fosters a chic yet homey interior reminiscent of your favorite aunt’s living room. Lilac, deep purple and forest green mix along the walls, complementing the cushy black leather seats. Classic board games from Sorry to Mad Gab line one side of the cafe, and if only more students were ...
Drawing from both the canonical and the avant-garde, this season’s theater lineup will explore the transcendental power of relationships and art’s ability to grapple with timeless issues of identity. Sock and Buskin will begin the season with a twisted, Occupy Wall Street-esque version of the classic ...
Perhaps it is rather cliche to convey imperfection through visual art, but to experience it aurally is an innovative concept. This is indeed at the heart of the “Audible Spaces: Tristan Perich, Zarouhie Abdalian and [The User],” an exhibition that constructs physical space around sound. Upon entering ...
Since its foundation in 2009, the Guantanamo Public Memory Project has promoted discussion about the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The exhibit, which has travelled internationally since 2012, now makes a stop in Providence. Visitors will not only experience an exhibit co-curated by a group ...
Walking through the Peace Art Exhibit is a Twilight Zone-esque venture. At first, it is easy to stare with academic detachment at the results of this experiment, which gave blank wall space to various members of the Providence community and asked them to represent on it the abstract idea of peace. ...
Shmattes | Brown/RISD Hillel Gallery Each of the over 100 t-shirts in this collection, curated from diverse sources by Anne Grant, bears a witty slogan or pun related to Judaism. The playful, sometimes irreverent nature of the t-shirts examines how Jewish identity has expanded beyond the parameters ...
Crumbling and aging pages from institutions around the globe draw visitors to the John Carter Brown Library’s exhibit, “Off to College: Higher Education in the Americas, 1551-1825.” While the documents are written in various languages across different historical eras, they collectively initiate ...
The enticing aroma of freshly-caught seafood mingled with the refreshing breeze blowing off the Providence River and the mellow sounds of live bands to establish the laidback atmosphere at India Point Park, where over 20,000 people gathered over two days for the fourth annual Rhode Island Seafood Festival. “It’s ...
Restoration of the nearly 10-foot-tall Dainichi Nyorai Buddha and the newly displayed interior of Egyptian priest Nesmin’s coffin are just two of the many changes visitors will notice in the renovated section of the sixth floor of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum. The museum opened its restored ...
Boston Calling | City Hall Plaza | Sept. 5 to 7 Lorde, the 17-year-old singer-songwriter who made her groundbreaking debut last year with the single “Royals,” will headline, along with the National, Childish Gambino, Spoon and Twenty One Pilots. Providence Folk Festival | Roger Williams National ...
On Tuesday evening, Wriston Quadrangle rung with more than just the sounds of fraternity brothers playing cornhole and returning students picnicking over Sharpe Refectory take-out. Riffs drifted out from a makeshift stage as Off-White, a student rock band, played for the crowd attending the campus welcome ...
“Magic in the Moonlight,” Woody Allen’s latest film, conjures up familiar illusions drawn from the rest of his work. Where it differs from most of his canon, however, is in its failure — despite its title — to suspend our disbelief, or cast any real enchantment. Allen’s inventiveness is ...
National Geographic Channel brought its particular blend of entertainment and science to Alumnae Hall Thursday afternoon, targeting students to serve as participants in a social experiment for its upcoming program, “Crowd Control.” The show aims to discover innovative fixes for social issues through ...
“Violet,” directed by Skylar Fox ’15 and running in the Production Workshop Downspace this Friday through Monday, deals with problems of appearance, and avoiding the cliche, it does not discredit the power of the superficial. The musical follows the titular character’s quest to heal a disfiguring ...
Final assignments for some classes, such as ancient battle reenactments and blogs, make Brown’s moniker of “unconventional Ivy” seem well-deserved. Many undergraduates taking classes that rely on unusual end-of-term endeavors said they prefer completing final projects to taking tests or writing ...
ArtRI’s “In Plain Sight: Art in Unexpected Places” series will air a new episode Thursday on Rhode Island PBS highlighting public artworks on the campuses of Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. Throughout the half-hour episode, Jo-Ann Conklin, director of the David Winton Bell Gallery, ...
Beyond the two-by-fours of a derelict construction site, a cityscape looms stoically in the distance. Obscured geometric patterns evoke the protective stance of a mother crouching over a cradle. A rough, asphalt-like exterior is chiseled away to expose a smooth, blue underbelly. Such images of instability ...
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