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.

Mick talks with the Brown Art Review about industrial fishing, capitalist food systems, and the importance of presentation in advance of his upcoming show “Liturgy of the Shelf.”