Youthful characters mingle with starker images of violence in the comics that line the walls along the second floor of the Watson Institute for International Studies. Colorful images of Mickey Mouse adorned in lavish Arabic garments and headdresses create an aura that is distinctly familiar yet rich ...
Standing at a podium in the McCormack Family Theater, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo conjured criticism of his home country in flowing Spanish interspersed with English translations for a small gathering of students, faculty members and writers. Reading from “Cuba in Splinters,” a recently published collection ...
This post was updated February 6, 2015 at 6:08 p.m. If there is one thing students wouldn’t expect to see on a Friday evening — or ever — it’s their professors flaunting some moves and jiving away on a stage. Yet seven professors, each paired with a student dancer, will perform Friday at Dancing ...
“Wonderland,” a play directed by Rebecca Carrol ’15 and produced by the Production Workshop, is interactive in the truest sense of the word. A dizzying and realistic descent through a rabbit hole carries audience members into the pages of the familiar storybook on which this devised piece is based: ...
There’s nothing new about saying that short films have a particular freedom. Without the need to sustain a narrative for several hours, filmmakers have the opportunity to work outside traditional arcs and structures and are more willing to be playful and experimental, assured of the fact that the ...
“I still wear sneakers only at the gym,” said Matthew Paul ’09, co-founder of the sneaker company Electrolites Footwear. After working with Electrolites for seven years, Paul and his business partner and former college roommate, Doug Berman ’09, are in the process of selling their company to ...
“There is a deep responsibility I feel, which gets even deeper as I advance in age, to create the world I want to see,” said actor, filmmaker and social activist Danny Glover to a packed RISD Auditorium. Glover visited RISD Friday and delivered a speech on the connections between art, democracy ...
Benjamin Lundberg, a performance artist whose work explores issues of transnational identity, is the newest resident artist at AS220, a local nonprofit community arts center based in downtown Providence. Lundberg previously served as a member of AS220’s rotational Artist in Residence program last ...
Dietrich Neumann, professor of history of art and architecture, engages with architecture on a level greater than just teaching theoretical and studio classes on campus. His research investigates the historical significance of architecture from the late 19th century to modern day, and he has published ...
Currently on display at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, the 7th Annual Brown/RISD Dual Degree Exhibition examines everything from the sky to the self. You will encounter drawings of common subjects, like abstract images of women, as well as more distinctive ones, such as a drawing of an exit ...
Upon entering the lobby of the List Art Center, a massive pyramidal structure of stoneware and porcelain loops bombards the eye, each loop resting delicately on top of the other like an abandoned pile of pasta. A grid of what appears to be starched underwear spans the right wall of the lobby, each pair ...
Out of a pool of nearly 1,300 applicants, ArtPlace America listed two Providence art project proposals among 90 finalists for its 2015 National Grants Program. The proposals, put forward by AS220 and the Rhode Island Local Initiatives Support Corporation, will undergo review by ArtPlace America, which ...
In a single day, over 300,000 people will go to emergency rooms across the country seeking medical attention in the United States. The new documentary film “24|7|365: The Evolution of Emergency Medicine” explores the experience of the people who developed emergency medicine in response to the changing ...
“You know what’s more destructive than a nuclear bomb? Words,” says North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s character, played by Randall Park, in the film “The Interview.” In the wake of North Korea’s cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment and threats of violence against the United States, ...
“Black community is not monolithic,” says Reverend Eric P. Lee, dispelling ideas of a universal and singular African-American viewpoint in “The New Black,” a documentary by Yoruba Richen ’94. The film exposes the divisions among blacks and the intersection of and conflict between black and ...
The perfect play bears a striking resemblance to the perfect crime — ever-adapting, prone to explosions and often more illusion than reality. In stealing $30 million from a locked bank vault in a job riddled with mishaps, Sock and Buskin’s “Heist Play” exemplifies the fluidity of the perfect, ...
Since its opening in September, Yan’s Cuisine has become College Hill’s spot for authentic Chinese food. The swarms of students at Yan’s are a testament to the restaurant’s diverse flavors, convenient Benevolent Street location and reasonable prices. The chef responsible for the popular cuisine ...
‘Wild’ | Opened Dec. 3 | 120 minutes It is often said that before we cast judgment on someone, we must walk a mile in their shoes. According to this logic, hiking the 1,000-plus miles of the Pacific Coast Trail must be the empathy exercise of a lifetime. Based on Cheryl Strayed’s wildly popular ...
In the culmination of a semester’s casting, filming and producing, Brown Motion Pictures will host its biannual short film premiere Friday evening in Salomon 101. Toward the end of each semester, BMP screens a series of student-written films, which are produced by BMP staff, directors and writers ...
A former teacher of mine once declared — with appropriate grandiosity — “If God speaks to us at all, he does so in number.” There’s something strangely appealing in his proclamation. Religious texts? Nonsense. Sworn recollections of miracles and visions? Insignificant. A deep, unspoken and ...
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