Three new exhibits opened at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum Jan. 22 — “Drawing Conclusions,” “Wild and Precious” and “Swagged and Poufed: The Upholstered Body in the Late 19th Century and Today.” “Drawing Conclusions,” which can be found in The Linda and Vincent Buonanno ...
With the University’s newly activated @artsatbrown Instagram account, Brown and Providence community members will be able to showcase their work in a shared digital space. Luyuan Xing, program coordinator for the arts, created the account, which published its first post two weeks ago. Xing said Instagram ...
Only five blocks up from the Thayer Street CVS, Blue State and a bevy of first-year dormitories lies Hope High School. Though only a two-minute drive apart, Hope and Brown speak to the two stratospheres of our education system. With less than half of the student body proficient in reading and roughly ...
An Instagram feed tells a variety of stories — the story of a friend’s family vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, the story of a distant acquaintance’s night out in New York, the story of a celebrity’s walk down the red carpet. For users following the account @heyharryheymatilda, Instagram also ...
Molly Guy ’99 is making weddings cool. In 2011, Guy founded Stone Fox Bride, a bridal boutique that has become the go-to spot for betrothed millennials. The boutique is hailed as the “current wedding-wear darling of the jammin’ and Instagrammin’ set” by the New York Times. Guy said she created ...
“Kill Wilson” is the fourth, and last, final project for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the final installment in a series covering students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. Caroline Orr ’16 called out over the ...
Artist Jane Hammond, whose work has been featured everywhere from the National Gallery of Art to the de Young Museum in San Francisco, spoke with students and faculty members at the List Art Center Thursday, wrapping up the Department of Visual Art’s visiting artist talks for the semester. Hammond’s ...
Western and Ghanaian rhythms exploded together on stage at the Grant Recital Hall during the Ghanaian Drumming Concert Wednesday night. The performance was the culmination of the course MUSC 0640: “Ghanaian Drumming and Dancing Ensemble” and incorporates both student and faculty work. Over the ...
"Grading the Green” is the third of four final projects for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the third in a series that covers students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. Braving the pervasive chill of a rapidly darkening ...
Dressed in true Justin Bieber fashion, the 21-year-old singer closed out the American Music Awards late last month clad in ripped jeans falling mid-thigh, a long white tee under a baggy beige sweatshirt, white Vans and a trucker hat. Bieber performed a never-before-heard medley of his latest hit singles ...
“If you have some kind of talent, do it. Whatever it is,” said Fred Jackson, wheeling around a high-backed chair in his greenhouse office on the top floor of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching. “Get into it. You know what I mean?” Jackson, for his part, is into everything. ...
Local company New Harvest Coffee celebrated its 15th anniversary on Friday. Friends, colleagues and college students all came together in the warm hall of the historic Providence Arcade, and every person held either a cup of coffee or a glass of whiskey — sometimes both. In addition to coffee, the ...
Student dancers from groups including Attitude Dance Company, Dance Extension, Fusion Dance Company, imPulse Dance Company and Brown Ground Breakin’ united this weekend on the Fall Dance Concert stage. The concert, which took place in the Ashamu Dance Studio, featured all student-choreoghraphed dances ...
“These writers work to humanize black lives,” said Director of the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Anthony Bogues at the Writing for a Broken World event last night. Just moments later, the writers he referenced — Jesmyn Ward and Edwidge Danticat MFA’93 — walked out on the Martinos ...
Navigating Spaces is the second of four final projects for PHP 1680I: “Pathology to Power: Disability, Health and Community.” This article is the second in a series that covers students’ attempts to increase the visibility of disability on campus. Today at 3:30 p.m., Alumnae Hall will host “Navigating ...
Taking a departure from the multisyllabic science language omnipresent in many science publications and journals, the Triple Helix seeks to put the science occurring around students every day into context. TTH, a student-run science publication that includes a blog and a biannual magazine exploring ...
Through varied media including visual arts, photography, poetry and music, Juliana Huxtable explores the boundaries of identity. The artist shared how she carves out a unique niche of self-expression during a talk at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Tuesday in the most recent installment of ...
By 8 p.m. on Saturday night, the seats of MacMillian 117 were nearly filled — the audience chattering in eager anticipation of “Pitch Please: An Aca-Benefit Battle.” Organized and hosted by Brown’s Global Brigades, the battle featured three of Brown’s a cappella groups, and one group from ...
Brown University Gilbert & Sullivan held their annual fall production this weeekend, performing a unique interpretation of “Princess Ida.” The reworked production featured a shifted tone and a more empowered Ida to make the play more accessible to modern audiences. The play tells the story of ...
In Sock and Buskin’s newest production “The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry,” legend and history come together to present a portrait of mid-19th-century life from a segment of the American population not usually depicted: the Black Seminoles, a group of black and Native American people. Written ...
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