Human perceptions of the world are dramatically changing, Gareth Cook ’91 argued in a lecture Wednesday night. The cause, he posited, is a blend of text and images with origins tracing back over 10,000 years: the infographic. Cook’s talk, “Infographics: The Origins and Future of Visual Thinking,” ...
Gregory Crewdson, a photographer whose work has been widely exhibited in top art museums, presented some of his artistic creations in a talk Wednesday. Crewdson spoke to a sold-out Martinos Auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts as part of an ongoing lecture series by ...
Opera may seem like a genre of the past, but Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Iolanthe, or, The Peer and the Peri” transcends the bygone era from which it came. Directed by Meghan Kelleher ’12 and presented by Brown University Gilbert and Sullivan, the opera will enchant a modern audience with its comic ...
‘The Range’ — an electronic one-man act by James Hinton ’10 — is aptly named. He incorporates a diverse collection of eclectic styles, yielding surprising combinations. Since the Oct. 14 release of his first full-length album “Nonfiction,” Hinton has been showered with critical acclaim. ...
Sam Pearce’s ’14 new album, “Don’t Forget Me,” opens with a single voice reading a poem — no guitar riff or rhythmic drums or even synth chords. It’s a fitting way to begin the record, which he released under the name Nemo — a name Pearce said represents the “blizzard, captain, clownfish.” ...
An unassuming visitor to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum who passes through the dark, silent corridor on the first floor might be capitvated by a larger-than-life screen test of Edie Sedgwick, a famous socialite and fashion model of the 1960s. “Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests,” a series ...
On a quiet Friday afternoon, the Avon Theater often bustles with middle-aged local intellectuals. The thick smell of warm buttered popcorn hangs in the air, while old-time swing music plays softly. “Welcome to the world’s most uncomfortable seats in the most beautiful theater,” one elderly patron ...
In bold white letters, the word “Try” loomed over the dimly lit Martinos Auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, welcoming the Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students who piled into the room to hear graphic designer Chip Kidd speak Thursday afternoon. The ...
Video by Kavia Khosla and Maggie Livingstone. At this weekend’s annual student-choreographed Fall Dance Concert, attendees can expect lots of diversity and energy in all the pieces. The show covers a vast range of styles, including tap, ballet, aerial, modern and traditional Indian dance. Performances ...
Making a good movie about slavery is no easy task. Achieving historical accuracy demands a disturbing portrayal of brutality and injustice. Contemporary audiences seek entertainment and inspiration. “12 Years a Slave” skillfully walks this line, combining a stirring personal narrative with realistic ...
Cramming was a requirement — not a sleep-depriving reflection of poor time management — for the student artists and curators in this year’s MESH art show, sponsored by the Student Creative Arts Council. The annual art-creation-and-organization event was contained within a 24-hour period for the ...
Kevin Allison’s traveling show RISK! goes where most dare not — providing a forum for storytellers to cross conventional boundaries and share intimate stories they would otherwise never think to express in public. The Brown-RISD event Saturday night in MacMillan 117 included a range of stories chosen ...
Last April, New York Times best selling author Meg Wolitzer ’81 published her ninth novel, “The Interestings,” which won an Amazon Best Book of the Month. The book follows the lives of an artistically talented group that meets as teenagers at summer camp, where they face the challenges of pursuing ...
“Life — real life — as the way life enfolds, is never as you imagine it,” award-winning author Jamaica Kincaid told a packed auditorium in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. “And all that must come must contain right now.” Kincaid spoke Thursday on topics ranging ...
The red glow of Netflix is a familiar greeting to procrastinators seeking refuge in the warm embrace of “30 Rock.” Online content on demand with no commercial interruptions — this is the model of television consumption that has loomed large in public discourse about media over the last year. ...
Should you find yourself at Production Workshop this weekend, expect to be touched — literally. This is not meant to alarm. The caresses are encouraging, the embraces gentle. Viewers are also likely to be hit on, laughed at, danced with and offered a joint. But don’t get your hopes up — these ...
In her recent film “The Other Half of Tomorrow,” author and director Sadia Shepard examines the lives of Pakistani women determined to foster change in their homeland. In advance of her Nov. 6 appearance at Brown for the screening of her film, Shepard spoke to The Herald about her experiences making ...
Ninety years of singing, songwriting and musical poetry are surely deserving of a birthday party. Four well-known opera singers and pianists from the New York Festival of Song gave Ned Rorem, the famed American composer and Pulitzer Prize-winner, such a celebration Friday. In a concert in the Martinos ...
A glance around the newest exhibit at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts can be disorienting. With a miniature bike rack across the room from equestrian-inspired sketches and images of stars and fish, the display could at first be mistaken for a child’s show. This may be part ...
In the scene that gives “A Streetcar Named Desire” its famous name, Blanche DuBois, a fading Southern belle fallen on hard times, chastises her sister Stella for marrying a man Blanche deems too common. “What you are talking about is brutal desire — just — Desire! — the name of that rattle-trap ...
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