Spatial Memory

The Hidden Corners Cyvian Chen College From the files Student Voices A summer intern peeks into the Museum’s hidden corners and examines its architectural quirks.

Hand of the Maker

Ilgın Korugan College Student Voices A summer intern works with local artists to create an experimental audio project to be experienced in the galleries.

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. The launch of this series corresponded to the opening of a cross-curatorial project that reinterprets our European collection.

Objects by Architects

Taylor Haywood College Student Voices Architects have been recognized as key figures in furniture design since the late 19th century, although they've certainly been designing furniture for far longer. But what compels them to do so?

Digital Restoration of a 3rd-century Panel Painting of the God Heron

Macy Nobles College Conservation Student Voices In earlier decades, retouching (or “inpainting”) using reversible painting materials would have been employed where compositional elements were missing. Nowadays, the recreation of missing elements can be applied in a digital format without introducing non-original materials to the fragile historic surface of the work of art. Digital restoration also allows for reversibility of any additions, which is a basic tenet of professional art conservation.

Exhibition Design / From the Loom of a Goddess

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Peregrinations of a Portrait and the Legacy of Agrippina the Younger

Anthony Scott College Student Voices 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. One man knocks her over the head with a club and another raises his sword. With her last breath, she implores her killers to strike through her womb— the womb that birthed Nero, her matricidal son.