A Snowy Day in Paris

Maureen C. O’Brien Curator In the winter of 1886, the neighborhoods of Paris were transformed by an unusually heavy snowfall that lingered on the branches of trees and captured the imagination of the artist Berthe Morisot. A founding member of the independent painters’ collaborative a critic had dubbed the “impressionists,” Morisot shared the group’s interest in painting scenes of modern life in a style distinguished by broken brushstrokes, flattened spatial relationships, cropped points of view, responses to fleeting light and atmosphere, and an absence of academic drawing and modeling.

Exhibition Design

Drawing Ambience Portfolio

In Production

Graphic designers share their work Derek Schusterbauer Portfolio As the RISD Museum hosts the final stop on the tour of Graphic Design: Now in Production, an exhibition that began at the Walker in 2011, we're starting a series that updates the show by checking in with some of the designers featured in it, to see the work they have been doing since 2010.

Lot 022405

A. Will Brown Curator Curatorial Assistant A. Will Brown on Donald Moffett's Lot 022405.

Buddha Commemorations

Ingrid Neuman Conservation There's always more to be discovered: Hidden in plain sight since the 11th century, two inscriptions were found during conservation of the Museum's Dainichi Buddha.

Mummy's Boy

Jonathan Migliori College Student Voices Over the last 2,000 years, Nesmin has been a priest, a mummy, and a museum exhibit. RISD Museum intern Jonathan Migliori discusses Nesmin's influence in his life.

The Group Shot

Erik Gould Portfolio Setting up a group of objects for a photograph is not the same as setting the table. Museum photographer Erik Gould explains why.

Arlene Shechet Interviewed by Judith Tannenbaum

Judith Tannenbaum Curator Studio Notes Artist Arlene Shechet discusses the production of works for and the installation design of Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast with the exhibition's curator, Judith Tannenbaum.