On the outskirts of the Mexican resort town of Tulum, overlooking the Caribbean sea from a densely jungled hilltop, are the remains of a Mayan city known as Zama, or “Dawn.” The ruins look similar to ...

J.E. Azmi, "…betta have my money / Asé" (2024) (photo by Adam Reich, image courtesy the Artist and Fridman Gallery) Across time, media, and meaning, A Treatise on Color: Vols. I–IV examines notions of ...

If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

Manganese black: Art in the Ice Age -- Red ocher: The sacred and dangerous in Australia -- Egyptian blue: King Tut's infrared transmitter -- Greek white: The myth of the white city -- Yellow ocher: ...

Explores the relationship between nature and color in art, emphasizing how artists are inspired by natural hues but create their own interpretations. It discusses the color wheel, the mixing of ...

"This book selects 283 main colors from Japanese traditional colors, categorized in the order of red, purple, blue, green, yellow, brown, black and white, and gold and silver, with color samples and ...

What does color in art signify? Does color in art by black artists have more significance than color in work by artists of other ethnicity's? Questions like those above will arise as one views "The ...

An Ashbrook High alumnus has turned her dissertation on the portrayal of black women in modern art into a groundbreaking exhibition in New York City, which will soon open in Paris. In late October, ...