After four years as visual arts concentrators, Cecilia Salama ’12 and Jill Silverberg ’11 are no newcomers to exhibiting their artwork at Brown. This winter they collaborated on a mixed media installation, “ssided,” at the List Arts Center. “Though the approach may be sculptural, in my eyes ...
There is no escaping your conscience, Detective Porfiry warns Raskolnikov, a man about to be charged with the robbery and murder of an old pawnbroker. Trapped in his own mind, Raskolnikov suffers the greatest penalty for his crimes — the guilt that stems from committing a seemingly senseless crime ...
Emerging fashion designers will flaunt their new pieces in runway shows, showcases and a competition at StyleWeek Northeast, which started Monday at the Biltmore Hotel downtown. Rosanna Ortiz Sinel, president and founder of StyleWeek, started the event in 2009 with hopes of “connecting buyers and ...
Men in bright kilts milling about, a tower of fridges packed with beer and ice cream, a glass jar filled with hand-written wishes and an open-invitation potluck. These are just some of the pieces one might encounter at “Full,” the fifth annual Brown-RISD Dual Degree Exhibition, currently on display ...
The Ivy Film Festival is kicking off the new semester with an advanced screening of the film “Warm Bodies” followed by a question-and-answer session with director Jonathan Levine ’00 Sunday. Levine’s film is a romantic comedy with a twist — the drop-dead gorgeous protagonist is replaced with ...
The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, a youth orchestra uniting young Israeli and Arab musicians in a spirit of open dialogue and international cooperation, has returned to campus for the first time since 2006. Led by acclaimed conductor, pianist and activist Daniel Barenboim, the musicians will be on campus ...
Evolutionary biology and contemporary theater are not obvious bedfellows. Even for life science enthusiasts, the idea that two women should spend the entirety of a two-act play discussing the intricacies of the female reproductive system is, to say the least, unexpected. But it works in "The How and ...
Musical Forum's production of "Next to Normal" premieres tonight, and there is only one thing to do about it: go see it. It's free, it's filled with talent, and it's this weekend only, so take the opportunity while you can and go see a musical that will make you laugh, cry and want to punch something ...
United by their joint passions for medicine and music, a select group of Alpert Medical School students and faculty members traded their white coats and stethoscopes for musical instruments Friday, showcasing their talents at the seventh annual BioMed Concert to a nearly full Martinos Auditorium.
Continuing the theme "Musical Voyages" begun earlier this semester and in celebration of the Woody Guthrie centenary, the Brown University Orchestra performed music by Beethoven, David Amram and Leonard Bernstein in a concert in Sayles Hall Nov. 29 and 30.
It begins with a voice, a sweet soprano humming in the darkness. Then a girl begins to read from a children's primer: "Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty." Soon the audience hears about little Jane and her happy, laughing mother, her red dress, her big, strong ...
The ensemble group Aurea put on a concert Thursday evening in a show featuring a collaboration with composer David Amram, who scored films such as the 1962 version of "The Manchurian Candidate." Held in Grant Recital Hall, the concert included pieces composed by Amram interspersed with readings of works ...
When audience members file into the Upspace to see "The Old Queen," running at Production Workshop this weekend, they will see Anna Muselmann '14 dressed in tattered rags and sitting on a wooden platform facing away from them. Muselmann, who plays an imprisoned Marie Antoinette, is the force behind ...
Author Pamela Lu's calming aura filled the small McCormack Family Theater Thursday night during a Writers on Writing Series event hosted by the Department of Literary Arts. Lu, a fiction writer, has authored "Pamela: A Novel," "The Private Listener" and, most recently, "Ambient Parking Lot."
A panel of artists and teachers led a discussion about the use of art for social change in an event titled "Cultural Expression in the Wake of Catastrophic Violence" at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Nov. 20.
Ever heard the phrase "make love not war"? How about the almost-as-popular phrase "make tacos not war"? An exhibition of works by Alejandro Diaz, who coined the latter term, opened last Friday at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and will run through June 9. The exhibition kicked off with a free ...
"Until the Kingdom Comes," an exhibit by Norwegian artist Simen Johan, opened Saturday at the David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center. Showcasing 17 photographs and two sculptures, the exhibit features images of animals in unnatural or primordial circumstances. The artist, who began work on ...
"The Golem ... or Get These Nazis Out Of My Wedding," Production Workshop's new play, revolves around a wedding. Rivka and Mendel are in love and about to be married. They are the perfect young couple, but there is one problem - they are Jews living in late-1930s Prague. After the passing of the Nuremberg ...
Solutions by The State News
