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.

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

Brown’s Percent-for-Art program has thoughtfully integrated site-specific public art onto campus since 2004. In honor of the 20th anniversary of this program, I sat down with the former director and artists involved to reflect on some of the program’s diverse projects and to gain insight into their perspectives on public art at Brown and beyond.

The mysterious statues on the Main Green have surprisingly deep meanings.