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Distraction Distilled

College Student Voices Studio Notes

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.

Gallery Guide / Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

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Full tgallery guide from the exhibition Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza

Object Lessons

Curator Portfolio

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

American Drawings and Watercolors

Edwin Austin Abbey's Old Peasant Woman
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Curator Maureen C. O'Brien discusses American drawings and watercolors in the RISD Museum collection

The Head in Focus

Benin Art and Visual History
How did this get here?

The discovery of these treasures resembles that of a valuable manuscript. They are a new “Codex Africanus,” not written on fragile papyrus, but in ivory and imperishable brass.

New Ways to Paint

Sugaring Off
Curator How To

Unfinished paintings by Eastman Johnson, John Singer Sargent and Mary Cassatt reveal new techniques that emerged in France in the second half of the 19th century.

Egungun Atipako—with hand-woven aso ofi textiles. Ibadan, Nigeria. Photo: Bolaji Campbell, 2007

Cloth as Metaphor in Egungun Costumes

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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

Framing Art and the Art of the Frame

Conservation

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

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