Is color just a physiological reaction, a sensation resulting from different wave lengths of light on receptors in our eyes? Does color have an effect on our feelings? The phenomenon of color is ...

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 ...

Green with envy. Seeing red. Feeling blue. Colors have had symbolic and figurative meaning in poetry and art for all of human history. And color links art and the natural sciences, since various ...

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 ...

Over the past two decades, exhibits like Gods in Color and Chroma have popularized the idea that the ancient world was awash in color. But what do we really know about how ancient peoples understood ...

Last year’s contest drew hundreds of submissions from over six countries. Centered on the Twelve Pesukim, this year’s competition is aiming even higher.

NEW YORK — “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it,” Shug tells Celie in Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple.” In nature, among the priestly ...

The current furor over the Brooklyn Museum's appointment of a white woman to oversee the museum's African art collection is not surprising or infuriating to Steven Nelson. Nelson is an ...

Who decides what color dinosaurs are? It's more art than science in many cases. — -- Michael Skrepnick isn’t a paleontologist, but he may have done more to influence your notion of what dinosaurs ...