Brown University announced highlights of the fall season's arts programming across campus, presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and its member departments and programs. Read more about it here.

A great read in The New York Times by Elias Muhanna, professor of comparative literature at Brown University, on studying jazz piano via online tutorials. Here's the opinion piece.

The New York Times critic Glenn Kenny favorably reviews RaMell Ross' first feature length film, Hale County This Morning, This Evening. The film tells the story of Daniel and Quincy, two African-American young men coming of age in the rural South.

The Boston Globe's art critic calls the new exhibition Pushing Painting, curated by Ian Alden Russell and on view at the David Winton Bell Gallery, "delicious." Here's the review.

BAI GRANT PROGRAMS FOR FALL 2018 - SPRING 2019 SUPPORT PUBLIC PRESENTATION, ARTISTS-IN-RESIDENCE, AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS IN THE ARTS AT BROWN UNIVERSITY

Providence, RI…The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) announced today that grants totaling $87,730 were awarded to 20 faculty, postdoctoral fellows and professional staff at Brown University in support of artistic production, presentation and research.