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 ...

No aspect of painting bedevils critics more than color: how to name it, how to describe it and evoke its effects. British writer Philip Ball does everyone a service in "Bright Earth: Art and the ...

GASTONIA, N.C. — 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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

This collection of papers from the 2012 Arts & Letters Conference, hosted by the University of North Georgia, explores how color can provide clues to the interpretation of history and politics, works ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

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 ...