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A cream colored sculptural figure holding a tray, dressed in historical clothing with tightly curled hair.

Trading Earth

Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce

April 9, 2022 - August 3, 2025

A print made up of Greek pottery shards colored blue, orange, green, and tan. Each shard shows a piece of a different scene or pattern and all of the shards fit together to make the print.

Fantasy, Myth, Legend

Imagining the Past in Works on Paper since 1750

December 16, 2023 - June 2, 2024

Being and Believing in the Natural World

Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America

October 22, 2022 - June 4, 2023

A vertical photograph of a sculpture of a naked, dark-skinned, child with a distended belly, swollen arms, and a bald head on a white, square platform in a museum gallery. There is the blurred person in motion walking on the left side of the platform.

Dorner Prize

Fountain

October 24, 2022 - February 5, 2023

A charcoal drawing of a sculptural, nude male torso seen from behind. The figure is heavily shaded and detailed, and fine lines express detailed contours of the body.

Drawing Closer

Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum

March 12 - September 4, 2022

Raid the Icebox Now with Beth Katleman

Games of Chance

November 8, 2019 - July 11, 2021

In a case in a gallery’s center is a sleek black vessel shaped like a stylized head with an elongated neck. Cases along the perimeter contain other objects.

Raid the Icebox Now with Simone Leigh

The Chorus

October 18, 2019 - December 12, 2020

Intermission

December 16, 2016 - July 2, 2017

Pilgrims of Beauty

Art and Inspiration in 19th-Century Italy

February 3 - July 8, 2012

The Brilliant Line

Following the Early Modern Engraver, 1480-1650

September 18, 2009 - January 3, 2010

Yousuf Karsh

Portraits of Artists

February 27 - August 23, 2009

Rethinking the Romans

New Views of Ancient Sculpture

April 6, 2001 - January 2, 2009

The Natural World, the Body, and the Divine

February 3 - April 16, 2006

A pen and ink with brown wash gestural drawing of Christ’s body being taken down from the Cross by his followers and Mary. The faceless figures create a pyramid form.

Design and Description

Renaissance and Baroque Drawings

January 27 - April 9, 2006

Betty Woodman

Il Giardino Dipinto

February 18 - May 1, 2005

Bottoms Up! Drinking Vessels from the Museum Collection

August 1, 2003 - July 31, 2004

The Theatre That Was Rome

April 9 - July 11, 2004

The Dyed Image

December 10, 1997 - March 8, 1998

Lighting Unplugged

July 12 - October 13, 1996

From the Reserve I

Paintings of Quality from the Museum's Collection

April 9 - August 3, 1994

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

Capturing the Light

150 Years of Photography

September 22 - November 12, 1989

Treasures on Paper

Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection

June 13 - August 19, 1989

Beyond the Pharaohs

Egypt and the Copts in the 2nd to 7th Centuries A.D.

February 10 - April 16, 1989