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Two Eggs, RISD Style

Curator Artist

The Museum recently acquired *Huevos de Los Angeles*, a collaborative work by two RISD alumni, Adam Silverman and David Wiseman. Here the artists describe how they created "eggs" to rival the most coveted variety.

Redefining "Master Copies"

College Student Voices Studio Notes

A student dismantles the outdated terminology and practice of “master copies” by constructing a series of copies that works to bolster underrepresented artists and subvert the pervasive presence of white males in the Western art canon.

A black-toned painting with ominous abstract, elongated forms, faint linear details, small geometric white details, and a small cluster of green, blue, and red color.

Troubled Earth

College Student Voices

RISD Museum Summer researcher discusses Wifredo Lam's 1959 painting Près des Îles Vierges as a reflection of his complicated relationship with revolutionary Cuba and evolving understanding

American Drawings and Watercolors

Grant Wood's Plowing on Sunday
Curator Drawing

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934

A black, curved abstract shape lies at the center of a piece of wrinkled tissue paper. Zig-zagging lines of thread intersect over and beyond the shape.

The Rejection of Closure

College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Grace Xiao reflects on viewing artwork that embraces instability, disruption, and restlessness, making room for open interpretations in the gallery.

Sandy-toned, weathered stone slab with evenly spaced etched inscriptions filling the tablet and a broken-off bottom corner piece.

Reading Inscribed Letters from Roman Macedonia

RISD Museum’s important Greek inscription dates to the period when Rome dominated the Eastern Mediterranean.

Spatial Memory

The Hidden Corners
College From the files Student Voices

A summer intern peeks into the Museum’s hidden corners and examines its architectural quirks.

Diana Mantuana, Renaissance engraver

Curator

A rare female artist, Diana Mantuana's engraving of Atilius Regulus in a Barrel plays an important role in the history of the practice of printmaking and its reception in Renaissance Italy.

Fashionable dress women walks her dog in Boston Public Garden

American Drawings and Watercolors

Childe Hassam's Woman and Mastiff in the Boston Public Garden and Diamond Cove, Appledore
Curator Drawing

Childe Hassam, a successful young book and magazine illustrator, made his first trip abroad in 1883, disembarking in Great Britain then making a wide sweep through France, Holland, Switzerlan

A nude woman chained to a rocky cliff looks up towards a red-caped, sword-wielding warrior on horseback descending from the sky while a sea monster emerges from the waves below.

As Is Painting, So Is Poetry

Myth and Metamorphosis in the RISD Gallery
College Student Voices

Curatorial intern Anthony Stott explores the journey of the myths of Ovid—from text to visual medium—in three objects in the neoclassical galleries.

Sandstone Statue of Amenhotep

College Conservation

Cleaning an object can be as much about discovery as it is about removing accumulated dust and grime.

Collaboration and the Late-Medieval Book

Curator

Books of hours made during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance were products of collaboration between scribes, illuminators, bookbinders, and, sometimes, the original patron or owner. A recent acquisition of a French book of hours made in Rouen around 1510 tells the story of this collaboration through the structure of its contents, iconography, and assembly.

Painting and Sculpture storage recreated for the RISD Museum installation of Raid the Icebox.

Raid the Icebox

Curator From the files

In 1969, artist Andy Warhol was invited to curate an exhibition at the RISD Museum using works from the permanent collection that were not on view, but in storage.

A young girl in a red scarf over a blue dress gazes through a window out into a snowy scene.

A Snowy Day in Paris

Curator

In the winter of 1886, the neighborhoods of Paris were transformed by an unusually heavy snowfall that lingered on the branches of trees and captured the imagination of the artist Berthe Morisot.

Head of Christ or a Saint

College Student Voices

A colossal Romanesque head in the RISD collection has yet to be securely identified, but the sheen of his nose suggests that it was rubbed by many penitent hands during the course of this sculpture’s life.

The Dramatic Effects of Subtlety

A Fifteenth-Century Virgin and Child
College Student Voices

This late fifteenth-century Virgin and Child was created with subtlety, flexibility, and portability in mind. These features were central to its medieval use—and its use at the RISD Museum.

Christ in the House of Simon the Jew?

Contemporary Perceptions of Pharisees in Germany
College Student Voices

This article argues that Simon the Pharisee would have been viewed as an explicitly Jewish character by sixteenth-century viewers.

The Crucified Christ

College Student Voices

This seven-foot-tall Christ would have been suspended above an altar or screen, the juxtaposition of his damaged body and calm, downward gaze reminding those below him of both his humanity and his divinity. 

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