Sunday, September 19, 2010
New Hours for RISD Students visiting Brown Libraries
Message from Rockefeller Library's Circulation Department - Effective Immediately
Please share the following information about the change in access to the Rockefeller Library at Brown with your staff and library patrons.
In an effort to improve building security, the exterior doors to the Rockefeller Library will be locked weekdays at 10:00 PM -- effectively immediately. Access will be restricted to those with valid Brown cards; users will swipe their cards at the front door to gain admission.
Please note that the same card-access schedule has been in place at the Sciences Library for the last few years.
We want to emphasize that we continue to welcome your students and faculties' use of the Brown libraries and hope that the change in access to the Rock will not have a serious negative impact on their usage of our resources.
Library hours are linked here: http://library.brown.edu/libweb/hours.php . Additional information for visitors is available here http://library.brown.edu/libweb/visitors.php
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Desert of Forbidden Love film screening
Synopsis
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags.
Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.
Desert of Forbidden Love
Screening at the MFA, Boston on October 8, 2010
How does art survive in a time of oppression? During the Soviet rule artists who stay true to their vision are executed, sent to mental hospitals or Gulags.
Their plight inspires young Igor Savitsky. He pretends to buy state-approved art but instead daringly rescues 40,000 forbidden fellow artist's works and creates a museum in the desert of Uzbekistan, far from the watchful eyes of the KGB. Though a penniless artist himself, he cajoles the cash to pay for the art from the same authorities who are banning it. Savitsky amasses an eclectic mix of Russian Avant-Garde art. But his greatest discovery is an unknown school of artists who settle in Uzbekistan after the Russian revolution of 1917, encountering a unique Islamic culture, as exotic to them as Tahiti was for Gauguin. They develop a startlingly original style, fusing European modernism with centuries-old Eastern traditions.
Desert of Forbidden Love
Screening at the MFA, Boston on October 8, 2010
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