Cara explores how Natalia Goncharova redirects the ambitious, often technologically oriented rhetoric of Russian avant-garde abstraction toward an intimate and playful subject: domestic cats.

Kate explores how Australian artist Vincent Namatjira redefines portraiture to confront the legacies of colonialism while envisioning a more inclusive future—one expansive enough to embrace all Australians.

Clarke Reynolds (Mr. Dot) talks with the Art Review about interactive art, changing the narrative around blindness, and creating a world where art is more accessible for all.

Brady deconstructs Barbier-Walbonne’s presentation of the Cults of the Republican Motherhood and Fatherhood in his seminal portrait in the RISD Museum, examining how the artist both adheres to and challenges the Imperial ideals of the Salon of 1806.

In the RISD Museum’s “Trading Earth” exhibit (April 9, 2022 - August 3, 2025), a silver vessel stands quietly in the Tea Cabinet. What is this object and whose story does it carry? Tracing the history of the 'mate con bombilla', a traditional yerba mate vessel in Argentina, reveals a far more entangled past, one shaped by trade, colonial exchange, and the global circulation of both materials and meaning.

Examining the Boschian and elemental influences of Leonora Carrington’s practice.