“Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas” draws on the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s extensive holdings of Alma Thomas’ art to offer an intimate view of her evolving practice during her most ...

No matter how much art changes, color stays the same. There are only three primary colors — blue, yellow, and red. They combine to make the secondary colors — green, orange, and purple — which combine ...

It's hard to imagine today, but colour has been the subject of significant controversy for much of the history of Western art. In fact it's only relatively recently that it pushed past the stigma to ...

Here’s an old question that I find is still alive for a lot of people: How do you look at an abstract painting? Are you meant to just immerse yourself in the wordless presence of its colors? Or does ...

Scientists have identified the origins of the blue color in one of Jackson Pollock's paintings with a little help from chemistry, confirming for the first time that the abstract expressionist used a ...

Standing in a gallery surrounded by paintings by Bonnie Acker is highly recommended. You may find you want nothing more than to lay on the floor and soak it all in. “It,” in this case, is a roomful of ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter How do you draw the crowds to an old, landlocked house deep in the Norfolk countryside? Perhaps call on Damien Hirst. The seventh ...