3-D technology expands the ways of seeing and studying RISD Museum's 12th century Dainichi Buddha.

As the RISD Museum hosts the final stop on the tour of Graphic Design: Now in Production, an exhibition that began at the Walker in 2011, we're starting a series that updates the show by checking in with some of the designers featured in it, to see the work they have been doing since 2010.

As a part of its new Clinical Arts and Humanities Program, the Alpert Medical School partnered with the RISD Museum to create the workshop series "From Galleries to Wards." Workshop participants, Samuel Kase and Cia Mathew, reflect on their experience.

During my summer internship, I saw hundreds of fabulous garments, shoes, and accessories arrive for the Spring 2016 exhibition on fashion designer Todd Oldham.

As a curatorial intern for the Contemporary Art Department at the RISD Museum during the summer of 2016, I was introduced to the in-depth experience of museum work.

In creating Back Door @ the Pendleton, I relocated meaning from the art object to its context and used humor to alter the atmosphere of the Museum.

This was the introduction to Out of Line, an open studio space for RISD Museum visitors during the run of the exhibition Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now From the British Museum (October 6, 2017–January 7, 2018).

Using a questionnaire, curator Peter Selz—and the artists he queried—helped define a movement.

This fall the RISD Museum Lucy Truman Aldrich Porcelain Gallery reopened with its cabinets filled with engaging figures and a diverse array of tableware. Comprising nearly 180 objects from the museum's collection, this new installation focuses on the role that porcelain played in eighteenth-century life.

Painting student Davis Lloyd recollects stumbling across an unlikely source of inspiration, and connection between ancient art and contemporary painting.

A collage exploring how narrative and information is connected between separate works.

An eclectic mix of North African, Moorish, Middle Eastern, and Japanese aesthetics, this desk and table are the original creations of Italian designer Carlo Bugatti.

Construction with Central Anchor is an image that I return to frequently with students in K-12 classrooms and in the RISD Museum.

RISD Museum intern Alicia Valencia (RISD 2015, Furniture) explains how the act of looking closely formed her impressions on Samuel Gragg's Elastic armchair.

In the flood of digital-ness that comprises our daily experience, it can be easy to forget that most of what all of our complex devices are doing is simply counting. It's no coincidence that the word digital comes from digits, our fingers, that most elementary of counting machines.

A jade lithophone from 18th-century China offers insight to the significant role of ritual music in ancient China—as an essential part of state rite to assert the legitimacy of reign.

The woman in Frank W. Benson's Lady Trying on a Hat has always been a character who caught my eye during visits to the Museum. From her averted gaze to the contrast between her white dress and the black hat, she is poised to play the lead role on the stage that Benson created.

How a project designed to enhance pain management was born and made possible by the collaboration between RISD Museum and the Brown Emergency Medicine Residency.

A school programs educator describes student encounters with Edouard Manet's Repose.

Setting up a group of objects for a photograph is not the same as setting the table. Museum photographer Erik Gould explains why.

Collaborative reflections on the making and meaning of absences and erasures.

Inspired by Joachim Antonisz Wtewael's "The Marriage of Peleus and Thetis," Josephine Devanbu (RISD/Brown 2015) uses the painting's shapes and density in her newest work.

LeWitt likened his instructions to musical scores, which are realized in a new way every time they're played, and it's possible for LeWitt's wall drawings to take slightly different forms, depending on how his directions are implemented.