Leslie Hewitt, “Subfield (Extension) (Tension)” (2024) (photo by Timothy Lee Photography, courtesy Sugar Hill Children’s Museum of Art and Storytelling) What is color? The answer to that question is ...

In a new podcast episode from Yale University Press, author Kelly Grovier talks about his new book, The Art of Colour: The History of Art in 39 Pigments. “Pigments are the syllables art speaks in,” ...

Like many art movements—among them Impressionism, Fauvism, and Cubism—Orphism wasn’t named by the artists creating the work, but rather by a critic. The poet Guillaume Apollinaire first saw Robert ...

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 ...

Learn about artists who pushed boundaries and explored color for color’s sake Alexandra Loske The Impressionist movement of the latter nineteenth century proved a catalyst for changing not only how we ...

This short color theory lesson explains how artists can avoid muddy coloring by understanding hue, saturation, and value. The video breaks down the three core properties of color, then shows how the ...

The color has an unshakable hold on musicians, artists and writers. The background color is inspired by International Klein Blue, a hue that the artist Yves Klein first mixed in the 1950s, using it to ...

For the first time in its 75-year history, Art Humanities, an integral part of Columbia College’s Core Curriculum, has had its syllabus markedly revised. The revisions include nine new artists—all ...