Manual / Issue 15

From the Files

Gina Borromeo and Ingrid Neuman examine the rich patina on the surface of an ancient Etruscan bronze stamnos.

Artists on Art

Laura Lamb Brown-Lavoie, a farmer and poet, digs in with Fertility Is Not Green.Kyle Green offers an exchange with bitcoin in The Times.

Double Takes

Tayana Fincher and Simon Rettig discuss green’s presence in a vibrant Persian tomb cover

Paul Crenshaw and Pedro da Costa Felgueiras peer into the green screen backing a late fifteenth-century portrait of a cleric

Rebecca Bedell and Ananda Martins venture deep into Martin Johnson Heade’s lush Brazilian Forest

Nicole M. Merola and Timmons Roberts marvel at “And Ice, Mast-High, Came Floating By, As Green As Emerald”

Portfolio

Loose links and clear couplings from across the RISD Museum’s collection

Object Lessons

Wai Yee Chiong spotlights the fading beauties of the Green Towers in Suzuki Harunobu’s Ehon seiro bijin awase

Emily Banas uncovers arsenic in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century wallpapers

Sean Nesselrode Moncada documents Enrique Chagoya’s The Pastoral or Arcadian State: Illegal Alien’s Guide to Greater America

Conor Moynihan offers up notes on Gravity’s Dream by Chitra Ganesh

Taylor Rose Payer recounts Ojibwe survivance in a bandolier bag.

How To

Kajette Solomon lays out how to tek yuh hand tun fashion as revealed in a scrapbook by Jamaican makers from the late 1800s

Laurie Anne Brewer touches on a fragment of green velvet from the 1500s, a textile sample from the 1920s, and a popular Pantone shade to consider whether green is actually green

RISD Museum Interim Director: Sarah Ganz Blythe

Manual Editor-in-Chief: Sarah Ganz Blythe

Editor: Amy Pickworth

Art Director: Brendan Campbell

Photographer: Erik Gould (unless otherwise noted)

Printer: GHP