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.

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.

Beginning her career surrounded by Abstract Expressionists, artist Audrey Flack grappled with her impulse toward Baroque-inspired, illusionistic, and iconographic work for decades. After pioneering an often disregarded sentimental dimension of Photorealism within a male-dominated 1970s art world, the contemporary art world at last fully embraced her final body of work before her death in 2024.