Arts & Culture

Trinity performance probes meaning of family loss

Big band offers varied program in first concert

Student band expertly blends genres

Shadow puppets bring poetry to life

'Spring Awakening' exposes teenage taboos

Fusion Dance spring show both moody and moving

With crowd-pleasing hip-hop numbers and tragic modern pieces, Fusion Dance Company's 29th annual spring show keeps the audience on its toes for its entire two-hour duration. The show, running through Sunday, includes pieces in a variety of different styles, all choreographed by students. "Whatever someone ...

Filmmaker calls Hollywood a stifling place for black cinema

Black cinema will become sustainable when it separates itself from Hollywood, filmmaker Arthur Jafa told roughly 30 people Wednesday. The event, hosted by the Department of Africana Studies, was entitled "The Critical Sorrow, Catastrophic Ecstasy and Convulsive Beauty of Modern Black Cinema and Visual ...

Festival spotlights malnutrition in Mali

The guttural thump of drums was accompanied by bodies moving with graceful ferocity this past weekend at Brown's third annual Rhythm of Change initiative, which aims to address social change in Africa and the diaspora through the arts.

Unconventional Buddhist makes meditation relatable

Dressed in a suit and purple tie, atypical Buddhist practitioner and teacher Lodro Rinzler came to Winnick Chapel at Brown/RISD Hillel Thursday evening as part of a 24-city tour for his new book, "The Buddha Walks Into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation."

Beethoven's classic ninth honors Brown's 18th

The Brown University Orchestra and Chorus joined forces with the Providence College Cantori and Festival Chorus to pay tribute to President Ruth Simmons, who will be stepping down at the end of the academic year. Performing in front of a sold-out crowd of over 1,900 people Saturday night, the orchestra ...

Exhibit reflects aesthetics of the art of curating

Campy sci-fi musical explores family drama

"We can rebuild him. … We have the technology," says a supporting character of the bionic main character in the television series "The Six Million Dollar Man." But in the new Brownbrokers musical "We Can Rebuild Him," running in Stuart Theater through March 11, the character being pieced back ...

Baritone portrays loneliness of lost poet

Baritone Wolfgang Holzmair delivered a convincing performance as a wandering poet who had lost his way in a concert of Franz Schubert's legendary song cycle "Winterreise" Wednesday night in the Martinos Auditorium of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.

Production revels in silence

Dual Degree show indulges disarray

If Basket|Case is anything like the Brown-RISD Dual Degree Program, it calls into question the sanity of whomever thought allowing students to earn degrees from both schools at the same time was a good idea.  

Novelist explores toxic language

"You're about to hear language as it has not been spoken before," said Robert Coover, visiting professor of literary arts, as he introduced novelist Ben Marcus to a packed audience at the McCormack Family Theater Thursday.

Despite rain, students bust out best outfits Friday night

Love triangles abound in "Sparrow Grass"

Recapturing Monet, with a modern twist

"I want to paint the air," said Impressionist painter Claude Monet in 1895. "And that is nothing short of impossible." He was drawing a contrast between the artists of his day who only wanted to replicate objects they saw and those — like himself — who wanted to capture less tangible aspects ...

Videos show glimpse of vanishing everyday life