The RISD Museum has held this Benin bronze head in its collection for 80 years. “No one would have given it up unless under duress,” the curators say. But tracing its provenance and repatriating it is no simple matter.
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An Animated Teaching Tool That Breaks Down How Criticism and Ideology Work
“(Some of) The Mechanics of Critique” is an instructional video by Lisi Raskin that unpacks how Enlightenment Era philosophies and epistemologies affect how we engage with the world around us.
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Apply for Rhode Island School of Design’s Global Summer Studies: Engaging Ideas and Practices Across Cultures
For summer 2019, RISD launches a set of studio and liberal arts courses in the Azores, Berlin, Denmark, Japan, South Africa, and at RISD’s site in Rome. Applications are due April 11.
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Rhode Island School of Design’s 2018 Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.
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A Fallen Brooklyn Elm Shaped into Objects That Reflect on Immigration
The Witness Tree Project asked RISD students to design objects reflecting on immigration, made from a fallen 150-year-old elm in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.
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Rhode Island School of Design’s 2017 Graduate Thesis Exhibition
Graduate student work across 16 disciplines to be featured in showcase of hundreds of RISD artists and designers.
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Highlights from the RISD MFA Painting Exhibition in Chelsea
Ten recent graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) MFA Painting Program are debuting their work at Kathryn Markel Fine Arts in Chelsea.
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John Waters Tells Young Artists to “Wreck What Came Before”
“Today may be the last day of your juvenile delinquency, but it should also be the first day of your new adult disobedience,” John Waters recently told the 2015 graduating class of Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in his commencement speech.
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The Best Lists of the Best Art Schools on the Internet
In the market for a fine art degree but unsure how to pick schools? The real question is: which list of the top art schools is right for you?
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Bringing Back a Lost Museum
In 1945, workers at Brown University’s biology department were clearing out storage space when they stumbled on a giant trove of natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts.
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RISD Museum to Unveil New Galleries Featuring Ancient Egyptian and Asian Art
The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum is opening the newly renovated sixth floor of its Eliza G. Radeke building to the public this Friday.