Color is one of the building blocks of art. Imagine all the new art that could be created if artists had a radically expanded palette at their disposal. That’s what crossed my mind when I first saw ...

The Denver Art Museum on one of its dozen free days a year is about what you’d expect: wall-to-wall families and happy young faces. The difference between this kids’ scene and many others around town ...

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 ...

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball Farrar, Straus & Giroux 382 pages, $30.00 On a wall in London's National Gallery hangs one of van Gogh's famous Sunflowers paintings—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 ...

Thirty-five years ago, Joan Skiver-Levy viewed a program on PBS in which a female artist was creating paintings with a pallet knife. Inspired by the technique and confident that she could master it on ...

The exhibition hall is filled with the fresh scent of lemon. It feels as though you are entering not just a physical space, ...

Known for his immersive environments and otherworldly lamps, the artist’s latest show at Petzel Gallery invites viewers to ...

Try on everything from floral nail prints to pastel french tips. Spring has sprung, and what better time than now to switch up your nails for brighter, longer days ahead? Whether you've been in a nail ...