The RISD Museum’s 2009 acquisition of the Richard Brown Baker collection included two drawings by the English artist Howard Selina—Cowboy Hat (1974) and Two Boots (1974)—carefully and precisely rendered drawings in graphite on paper of well-worn, utilitarian garments.

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.

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

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

A summer intern explores the context of ceremonial objects significant to RISD’s past and present.

Drawing in a museum is a way of slowing down and experiencing artwork on a nonverbal level.

“Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.”
—Paul Valéry

Artist Anya Ventura explains the context behind an audio tour and printed guide that she and Anther Kiley created illustrating episodes from the lives of seven objects from the Museum's galleries. Their 2012 work "Fragments" was one of the winning projects in the RISD Museum's annual *Sitings* competition for site-specific installations by RISD degree candidates.

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

Bhasha Chakrabarti  

b. 1991; from Honolulu, Hawaii; works in New Haven, Connecticut

Ashdeen, design studio

Mariela Yeregui was the 2022–2024 Faculty Fellow in Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum. In this summary of her work, she describes her research, social practice, and the e-textile she created at the conclusion of the position.

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.

Curatorial assistant of contemporary art A. Will Brown interviews artist Steffani Jemison about her film *Maniac Chase* (2009), *Escaped Lunatic* (2010–2011) and Personal (2014)

Agrippina the Younger watches as men of the emperor move nearer and nearer to her. They carry weapons. Having survived one attempt on her life, she knows that she will not survive another.

Exploring the process and context behind "I'm the Sweetest Teddy Bear", a work created by North Scituate artist Entang Wiharso.

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.

For many of us, a line is the first mark we make. It is a huge developmental milestone when a young child's first scribbles are set to the page (or wall!).

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

Inheritance, the headpiece pictured above, and Legacy, the video shown below, are designed to live in the pluriverse.

RISD Museum conservator Ingrid Neuman discusses the challenges in caring for objects made from this ubiquitous material

William Stanley Haseltine first studied painting in Philadelphia with the German expatriate Paul Weber, who encouraged him to continue his training in Düsseldorf.Haseltine attended the Univer

We were inspired by the Paracas mantle because it has become fragments that are dispersed all around the world without c

A summer conservation intern’s investigation into the uses of infrared photography in recording Samoan siapo and the significance of new visual information gained.