Urs Fischer’s “Untitled (Lamp/Bear),” a multi-story blue teddy bear sculpture, made waves this summer when it materialized on Ruth Simmons Quadrangle. But when Fischer spoke in Salomon Hall Wednesday his imposing installation played sideshow to a talk that centered on art itself and its reception. “I ...
“Storks,” the Warner Bros. comedy about birds who deliver babies (and basically everything else), joins a host of films that have attempted to explore the possibilities of simulating flight through animation. But “Storks” seems wholly uninterested in pushing these aerial frontiers, instead offering ...
While ineffectual pundits have trod redundant ground in analyzing this election cycle, Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts Robert Coover stands apart from the crowd as a singularly incisive observer. Wednesday night, at the reading of his prescient story “A Political Fable,” Coover offered his Leung ...
Eric Axelman ’12.5 aims to revolutionize the way the public consumes music in his debut solo album “Too Much,” to be released Friday. He inventively merges audio and visual elements to enhance the creative experiences of rap and hip hop. “Too Much” was produced by Providence local DeeJay Kellan ...
“After Spring,” a documentary directed and produced by Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching and executive produced by Chris McShane and comedian-turned-filmmaker Jon Stewart, was screened Monday by the Ivy Film Festival and React to Film, an organization that works in partnership with the IFF to provide ...
Don Wilmeth stands near the stage. His white hair is combed back in stark contrast with his dark suit, punctuating his countenance — a sort of intellectual tranquility reserved for retired professors. He smiles, imploring the shy audience to come toward the stage. A mumble ensues as the crowd drifts ...
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology opened its newest exhibition Friday titled “Northern Horizons, Global Visions: J. Louis Giddings and the Invention of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology.” This particular exhibition carries additional significance because this year marks the Haffenreffer’s ...
Few words carry such an immediately visceral cue for solemnity, mourning and remembrance as “Holocaust.” The knowledge of the horrors that took place at the hands of the Nazis during the Second World War is pervasive today; elementary school children read works such as “Night” or “The Boy ...
A Night with Clint Smith Writer, poetry slam champion and teacher Clint Smith will be on campus Wednesday evening to read from his debut poetry collection, “Counting Descent.” In addition to writing for the New Yorker and the American Poetry Review, Smith has given two TED Talks, “The Danger of ...
The Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs hosted an advanced screening Oct. 24 of “The Warfighters,” a docuseries by executive producer Peter Berg that focuses on U.S. Special Operations Forces soldiers and their personal stories from the front lines. The event consisted of a showing ...
Thanksgiving break is getting closer every day — and so, too, is the premiere of TBS’s upcoming mystery-comedy, “Search Party.” In advance of the series’ big release Nov. 21, Brown hosted a pre-screening Thursday night in the Stephen Roberts ’62 Campus Center. TBS describes “Search Party” ...
The first annual Law and Order Party Awards, the Dorrys, were held Sept. 27 at Aurora Providence. Members of the theatre arts and performance studies department and various Brown-affiliated productions were nominated for seven awards and won three. The Dorrys are a celebration of the best arts and culture ...
Student cover band Banana ripened this past weekend at “Gigs on the Grass.” The dynamic duo of Rosanna (‘ana’) Lederhausen ’17 and Ben (‘ban’) Spector ’17 aimed for popular appeal with a set list that ranged from Amy Winehouse collaboration “Valerie” and Hozier’s “Cherry Wine” ...
Most student films do not reach quite the same scale as “Into Nowhere.” A legally registered, student-run production company developed specifically for the project has a significant budget available to it through crowdsourcing. The 80-page script, developed during writer and director Marcus Sudac’s ...
The Wind Symphony, conducted by Director of Bands and Senior Lecturer in Music Matthew McGarrell, will play its first concert of the year alongside the Percussion Ensemble during Family Weekend. The Wind Symphony is a concert band that allocates only one player per part, unlike other types of concert ...
Student bands took turns at the two stages on Pembroke field Saturday afternoon, drawing a steady flow of concertgoers up from Thayer for Brown’s newest festival, “Gigs on the Grass.” The first festival at Brown to exclusively feature student artists, “Gigs” was organized by the Brown Concert ...
Oct. 14 moving.media@brown screened “Orgasm Inc.,” a 2009 documentary directed by filmmaker Liz Canner ’91. The symposium, moving.media@brown, was hosted by the Department of Modern Culture and Media Oct. 14 and 15. The goal of the symposium was “to get people thinking through what media can ...
Shades of Brown, a multicultural and multi-ethnic a capella group, will perform over Family Weekend to mark its 30th anniversary. The group, founded in 1986, sings a variety of genres — namely rhythm and blues, soul and pop, among others. But beyond its music, Shades of Brown has a history of diversity ...
The Brown University Oncology Research Group — BrUOG — will throw its annual Food Truck Festival Oct. 22 to help raise funds to support its work in developing cancer treatments. The Food Truck Festival is a free event open to Brown students and the Providence community at large. It will feature ...
“Birth of a Nation,” the story of Nat Turner’s 1831 slave revolt, opened in theaters Friday. But films like “Birth of a Nation” don’t just open: They explode into the collective cultural consciousness, leaving in their wake a tide of think pieces on the hazards of engaging with America’s ...
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