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The Brown Daily Herald
45th Annual Student Exhibition showcases bold, experimental works in Granoff Center
For the exhibition, on display until April 6, the jurors selected works that challenge convention and invite deeper engagement.
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The Brown Daily Herald
March 10, 2025
Brown playwrights experiment during ‘Writing is Live’ festival
Hosted by the TAPS department the five-day festival featured six original student plays.
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As the technical director of Brown’s John Street Studio, Haynes oversees the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies workspace and supports students’ experiential learning in art and design.
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The Brown Daily Herald
March 2, 2025
Brown musicians, RISD artists capture music on paper at annual Sketching Sound concert
RISD artists sketched Brown musicians as they performed live music.
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The Brown Daily Herald
February 28, 2025
The Bell showcases artist Julien Creuzet’s narrative on transatlantic slave trade
The exhibit depicts psychedelic oceanic images, among other components, to reference legacies of colonialism and the African diaspora.
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The Architect's Newspaper
February 19, 2025
Sanford Biggers mounts an installation inside Brown University’s Sayles Hall
A dreamy site-specific installation by New York–based interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers illuminates the main chamber of the historic 1881 Sayles Hall at Brown University.
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art currently
February 19, 2025
Chief Curator Kate Kraczon on Julien Creuzet’s Reimagined French Pavilion at The Bell
The Bell at Brown University will soon host, Attila cataract your source at the feet of the green peaks will end up in the great sea blue abyss where we drowned in the tidal tears of the moon, the first solo U.S. institutional exhibition by French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet.
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News from Brown
February 19, 2025
French-Caribbean artist Julien Creuzet stages immersive, multi-sensory installation at Brown
In a site-specific reimagining of the artist’s Venice Biennale exhibition, the installation in Brown’s David Winton Bell Gallery focuses on water as a site of trauma and emancipation and incorporates Rhode Island-made sculptures.
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The Brown Daily Herald
February 12, 2025
Award-winning authors Claudia Rankine, Bernadine Evaristo reflect on literary arts at Brown event
On Tuesday, the two shared their perspectives on storytelling, identity and the experience of language.
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News from Brown
February 11, 2025
With graffiti-inspired bubble clouds, whimsical new art installation illuminates Sayles Hall at Brown
New York-based interdisciplinary artist Sanford Biggers created a site-specific installation, “Unsui (Cloud Forest),” which features 10 cloud sculptures that hang from the rafters of Brown’s iconic 1881 Sayles Hall.
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The Brown Daily Herald
February 7, 2025
‘After Hours’: A glimpse into Brown staff’s artistic 5-to-9s after their 9-to-5s
The annual exhibition represents the creative processes that happen after working hours.
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The Brown Daily Herald
January 27, 2025
Jon Batiste advises aspiring artists during masterclass, conversation at Brown
Alongside wife and award-winning writer Suleika Jaouad, the Grammy award-winning musician discussed facing hardship and finding inspiration.
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