Prints and photographs from the Bell Gallery collection reveal diverse visions of Mexican identity amid the political, social, and economic upheaval of the 20th century.
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As part of violinist Tracy Silverman’s residency at the University, students develop original compositions in consultation with musical pioneer.
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Bell Gallery to host Melvin Edwards, Carrie Mae Weems exhibitions
Edwards’ ‘Festivals, Funerals and New Life’ and Weems’ ‘Kitchen Table Series’ open on Nov. 11 in the Bell Gallery and List Art Center lobby, respectively.
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Brown, WaterFire partner on exploring U.S. homecoming for Rosa Parks house
Currently located in Berlin at the home of American artist Ryan Mendoza, the historic home could begin a three-month stay in Providence in spring 2018 if initial plans materialize as envisioned by the University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and WaterFire Arts Providence.
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A new $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a yearlong seminar series examining how we have arrived at current understandings of race and indigeneity in North and South America.
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Bonnie Honig to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture
Honig, known for her wide-ranging work on the conditions necessary for collective democratic action, will discuss how the novel ‘Moby Dick’ responds to Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan.’
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Brown public humanities programs, photo exhibition focus on Guantánamo
An art exhibition and associated events explore the prospects that former prisoners face after release.
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Bell Gallery presents new sculptures by Richard Fishman
The exhibition, titled “What Remains,” includes pieces completed in the last two years and encompassing three unique series by the longtime Brown University artist and scholar.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Antonia Shann
By merging learned experience with lived experience, Antonia Shann co-created a French studies course on refugees that will be offered this fall.
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With virtual reality, bringing the Gaspee Affair to life
A team of Brown students led by the University’s virtual reality artist-in-residence have created an immersive experience to expose new generations of students to a dramatic, historically important Revolutionary War event.
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Using arts to understand autism, from the inside out
A summer performance camp organized by the Brown-based Miracle Project New England uses the arts to help young people with autism engage, socialize and communicate.
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Bell Gallery presents new exhibitions by two New England artists
Exhibits by Kim Faler and Kai Franz will include sculpture, installation, performance, photography, drawing and video.
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REX to design new performing arts center at Brown
With an approved location on College Hill, the planned state-of-the-art performance facility will be a hub for the arts on campus.
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Personalized music may help nursing home residents with dementia
People with dementia living in nursing homes that implemented the MUSIC & MEMORY program were more likely to cease using antipsychotic and antianxiety drugs and engaged in fewer problematic behaviors, according to the first evaluation of the program.
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University celebrates the life and legacy of Michael S. Harper
Friends, family, former students and colleagues from near and far gathered for events celebrating the life and writing of the distinguished poet, who died in 2016.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2017 fellowship to Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg for a book project that explores how land reclamation projects in the 1930s helped generate public support for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
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The 16th installment of the student-run film festival will run from April 10 to April 16 and feature a women composers panel, a focus on virtual reality in film and a slate of undergraduate and graduate films.
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Director, producer Ezra Edelman to deliver 17th annual Shearer Lecture
On Thursday, April 13, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will visit Brown to speak about his career, including his 2016 documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”
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Bringing China’s greatest novel to modern readers
Brown professor Dore J. Levy has spent more than three decades researching, teaching and writing about a complex classic of Chinese literature.
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Mellon grant to fund collaborative work in the humanities
A new $1.3-million Collaborative Humanities Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will advance research practice and graduate education in the humanities.
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Beginning this month, Pierre Huyghe’s “Untitled (Human Mask)” and Gabriel Martinez’s “Mountain War Time” will run concurrently in the Bell Gallery and the List Art Center lobby.
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“Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues” opens with a symposium and concert on Tuesday, March 14.
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University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch
With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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Spotlight on diversity, at center stage
In curating this year’s theater season, Brown students and faculty sought to bring issues of diversity and inclusion into the limelight.
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Photo exhibition confronts consumer culture’s impact on wildlife
The photographs in ‘Chris Jordan: Message from the Gyre’ depict albatrosses who have died from consuming floating plastic trash.
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Brown’s Bell Gallery presents the work of 40 student artists
The 37th annual student exhibition, open to students from all disciplines, was juried by Leonie Bradbury, director of art and creative initiatives for Boston’s HUBweek, and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, an independent curator, artist and organizer.
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Roxane Gay on politics, identity and the need for precise language
During her visit to Brown on Feb. 14, Gay read short stories and an essay that reveals how political slogans can impact political action.
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Brown plans new, cutting-edge performing arts center
Brown Corporation authorizes architect selection process, a critical step in the University’s vision to create a hub for arts performance, practice and scholarship.
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Syrian damask roses bloom at Brown’s Bell Gallery
An installation springs to life as artist Fatma Bucak’s exhibition comes to a close.
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Brown musician, composer finds inspiration in unexpected spaces
For Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan, November brought the premiere of a new composition by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a Copland House residency award announcement.
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Bell Gallery presents an exhibition by Fatma Bucak
New exhibit of photographs and video performances addresses conflict in Turkey and the Turkish-Syrian border.
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One Big Self: Celebrating the life and poetry of C.D. Wright
In a two-day event titled “Come Shining: In Tribute to C.D. Wright,” the University celebrated the work and influence of the late professor and poet, who died earlier this year.
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In wake of gift, University renames Judaic studies building
With support from a Class of 1971 graduate and his wife, the department will pursue improvements in support of its scholarship on Jewish history, literature, language, politics and religions.
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‘Lamp/Bear’ artist to speak at Brown on Oct. 26
The University’s Public Art Committee will welcome artist Urs Fischer, the man behind ‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear),’ to campus for a public lecture.
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Incoming Brown students come together for the First Readings program
Now in its 10th year, the program engages the entire campus community in selecting a common text that introduces first-year and transfer students to the pleasures and rigors of scholarly work at Brown.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Jacob Ihnen
A summer class, a transfer to Brown and an inspiring professor led rising senior Jacob Ihnen to an UTRA project focused on the rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Jennifer Shook
The rising sophomore took part in an intensive research project that not only piqued her interest in colonial-era history, but diversified her academic interests.
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Brown and RISD create a laboratory for innovative live arts projects
With a think-tank approach and a cohort of students from the visual and performing arts, Brown/RISD CoLAB, a new summer institute, gives students the tools and freedom to experiment with new forms of theatre and performance.
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Second year of Breakthrough Lab yields 16 new ventures
Brown’s summer program, known as B-Lab, showcased students’ ingenuity and pointed to an increasingly robust future for entrepreneurship at the University.
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University organist Mark Steinbach plays the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris
At a marquee stop in France on a broader tour playing venues in Germany throughout July, Mark Steinbach debuted new works by Brown music faculty members Eric Nathan and Lu Wang.
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Members of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew participated in an intensive three-day program of scholarly inquiry hosted by the University’s Program in Judaic Studies.
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Two monumental contemporary sculptures coming to Brown campus
Sculptures by Urs Fischer and Giuseppe Penone will be installed beginning June 14.
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Brown alumni win prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships
Peter Asimov and Emily Kassie, members of the Class of 2014, were awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships to continue their studies in the fall at the University of Cambridge.
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The Granoff Center at Five
Born out of a unique coalition of supporters and Brown’s singular ethos, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts is a force for new work and collaboration across disciplines.
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Passages: Poet and professor emeritus Michael S. Harper
Acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper, a beloved teacher to generations of Brown students, passed away on May 7.
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As part of the First Folio exhibit at Brown University, graduate and undergraduate students join forces with middle-school kids to explore ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in English and Spanish.
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Next Spielberg film will adapt ‘The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara’
The film is based on Brown faculty member David Kertzer’s 1997 book, a historical account of a Jewish boy abducted by the Papal Inquisitor and converted to Catholicism — a case that helped fuel the rise of the Italian secular state.
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Robert De Niro on art, validation and his father’s legacy
The actor participated in a panel discussion and took questions with students and others after screening a documentary on the life of his father, the artist Robert De Niro Sr.
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Taking the stage at Tempelhof
On a trip to Berlin, Brown’s jazz band played two performances at the refugee camp home to some 7,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
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The Singing Freedom Catalogue was launched today at a ceremony at the Iziko Museums of South Africa Slave Lodge.
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