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.

Vanni’s painting of The Virgin and Child Appearing to Saint Francis of Assisi guides the viewer through a theatrical ultra-reality showing Saint Francis’s spiritual experience and the beauty of the divine.

The many visual elements of Camille Pissarro’s Field and Mill at Osny (located in the RISD Museum) express the conflicts present between humanity and nature during the Industrial Revolution at the end of the nineteenth century.

At the "Wuthering Heights" UK Premiere, Margot Robbie divided the internet with her outfit: a dress made of hair and a replica of a piece of Victorian mourning jewelry made from Emily and Anne Brontë's hair. Camille looks to the RISD Museum's jewelry collection, investigating how 19th-century families turned locks of hair into sentimental, stunning jewelry and unravels a 200-year-old mystery buried in braids, brooches, and one forgotten little girl.

Rena visits the “Planetarity: Frictions, Fossils, and the Future" exhibition, which was on view at the Gelman Gallery until January 11, 2026.