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

John Steuart Curry's images of the circus provide us with an insider's look at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in the 1930s.

For Yorùbá-speaking peoples in West Africa, cloth is equated with their most precious possession, children.

Egungun costumes are usually created from a wide variety of carefully chosen fabrics ranging from exquisite samples of local handwoven aso ofi to exotic fabrics imported from aro

The RISD Museum was an essential part of my childhood.

Understanding historic frames and how to care for them can be a complicated matter.

This past summer, with a focus on design thinking, the students were asked What is useful? as a starting point for their group design.

Object Lessons is an ongoing video series on the RISD Museum website that focuses on works in the collection and offers new perspectives.

In the Middle Ages, several saints were represented as knights in art, making it difficult to identify RISD’s Crusading Saint. This article will explore his possible identities.

Exploring the process and context behind "The Election Gloves", a work created by Cranston artist Jessica Deane Rosner.

As part of the RISD Art Circle (RAC), we create opportunities for visitors to learn about objects more deeply and to experience hands-on making.

Exploring the process and context behind "Geku", a work created by Pawtucket artist Brian Shure.

Insights into Ingres's studio practice and clues to his intellectual process

Exploring the process and context behind "Bromance", a new work created by Providence artist J.R. Uretsky.

Inventories have been occurring almost since the beginning of museum practice, but they have changed entirely from their original form.

A new Chrome Extension brings the voices of first-time visitors into conversation with the RISD Museum’s voice.

Pixilation Party!, or how, with the help of dozens of RISD Museum visitors, Providence artist Xander Marro recently created one minute of black and white magic.

How do we describe images and the experience of looking at images? Student Grace Xiao reflects on the process of writing alt text for "Variance: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Disability."

Over the course of his artistic life, Marsden Hartley sought unmediated

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

Editor of publications Amy Pickworth, intern Joanna Cortez, and curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interview UuDam Tran Nguyen about his single channel video Waltz of The Machine Equestrians--The Machine Equestrians (2012).

Architect James Stanton-Abbott explains his process for creating a computer-rendered reconstruction of a room in an ancient Roman villa near Pompeii, using images of wall-painting fragments in the RISD Museum and the MFA, Boston.

Plowing on Sunday, from about 1934