The Providence Public Library kicked off its 2022 spring exhibition and program series in April with “Tomboy,” an exhibition featuring art, clothing, archival materials and more as part of a conversation on gendered expectations and what the term tomboy has meant over time.
Something about “The Northman” is a little unfair. As much as any filmmaker can try to make something intriguing and novel to strike a chord with the audience, little can match the intensity and excitement of a Viking revenge thriller. Director Robert Eggers clearly knew this when making the ...
On Friday, the Ivy Film Festival hosted a virtual conversation with Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator for “Sex Education,” “Normal People,” “Brave New World” and “I May Destroy You,” among other productions. “An intimacy coordinator is somebody who brings a clear ...
“Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street,” produced by Brown Opera Productions, opened in Alumnae Hall Friday night. Based on the 1979 operetta by Stephen Sondheim, “Sweeney Todd” tells the story of the titular barber who kills his clients and sends them to be baked into meat ...
Brown’s Divine Rhythm Step Team hit the stage of List Art Center Room 120 on Friday night with its annual show, “Codename D.I.V.I.N.E.” The performance was the group’s first since the pandemic began in the spring of 2020. It involved the work of 10 steppers, a lively crowd and a master of ...
Ivy Film Festival officially kicked off its 2022 program Monday with a screening of “King Richard” at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts followed by a virtual conversation with director Reinaldo Marcus Green moderated by Gabriella Wrighten ’25, an IFF student leader.
In his childhood, writer and producer Darío Madrona had to walk at least two hours to get to school and back. But this long commute allowed his imagination to flourish — in order to keep himself entertained, he would create complex storylines in his head. Years later, Madrona said this experience ...
Asking if this year’s remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen” is an uninspired, hollow mess would be like asking, “Is the pope Catholic?” In both cases, the answer goes beyond “yes.” Just like how the pope is not just a Catholic but the figure that Catholicism revolves around, “Cheaper by ...
In the keynote talk of day two of the Ivy Film Festival, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert — professionally referred to as “the Daniels” — were welcomed to campus virtually on Tuesday via Zoom. The talk, moderated by former Herald Staff Writer ...
On Tuesday, the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America hosted “Race & Performance in America,” its final event in the 2021-22 “Race & in America” series. This event followed five other virtual events this semester and in the fall, including “Race & Inequality” ...
Flickering lights shine on a body, barely moving in absolute shock. The camera pans up, revealing the classic blue and maroon uniform of Las Encinas, now smothered in blood as police sirens echo in the background. That’s how the latest season of the hit Spanish Netflix series “Elite” begins. ...
Imagine coming across a piece of art online as one-of-a-kind as the Mona Lisa. You decide to buy an NFT for that artwork — a kind of digital certificate of authenticity. Once the certificate is made, it is impossible to change. Anyone can see the full ownership history of the certificate, so you ...
Action movies don’t get much credit in the film world. They’re regarded mainly as aesthetic pieces, with an emphasis on dynamic car chases rather than deeper meeting. Conflict is typically reduced to a black-and-white binary, and the overarching plot is usually predictable. Complexity of feeling ...
The first season of creator Chris Van Dusen and producer Shonda Rhimes’s “Bridgerton” quickly became a sensation after it aired on Netflix in December 2020 — what it lacked in sheer cinematic prowess, it made up for with sex. The appeal was not purely sensational, as a previous Herald review ...
Nowadays, before a movie is even released, there is typically a long marketing campaign telling as many people as possible about the plot of the given film. Because of that, when a film is released without much public knowledge of its content but with an army of hype behind it, it is a treat to be ...
On April 2, UNESCO confirmed damage to at least 53 Ukrainian cultural sites since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of the country on Feb. 24. In a statement ...
Students, alumni and parents crowded into the Salomon Center’s DECI Auditorium Saturday night to watch the Brown Badmaash Dance Company — the University’s South Asian fusion dance team — perform their annual spring show for the first time in nearly three years. The performance was titled ...
This year, M. Night Shyamalan’s thriller series “Servant” returned to Apple TV in an episodic fashion. Starting in late January, segments of the show’s third season were released every week, culminating in a shocking finale at the end of March. Viewers followed as the show’s plot revealed ...
After a month-long run at the RISD Museum’s Gelman Gallery, the inaugural Black Biennial exhibition is entering its closing weekend. Co-curated by Rey Londres, a RISD senior, and Melaine Ferdinand-King GS, the show features the works of over 80 Black artists from the Providence community and will ...
Three Polynesian women donning grass skirts and flowers on their heads dance gracefully on a lush green field. An 18th-century European man in full military garb works on a desk by the waterfront. A mother crouches in the grass and comforts her young son, rocking him back and forth.
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