JUST BEYOND THE SERENE INTERIOR, A BACK WALL AWASH IN VIBRANT, SOMETIMES MUTED AND OFTEN MESMERIZING COLORS. AN ENCHANTMENT OF MORE THAN 3000 POWDERED PIGMENTS, BUT THIS IS NOT AN EXHIBIT. IT IS A ...

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,” ...

CORVALLIS, Oregon (KTVZ) – An Oregon State University researcher who made color history in 2009 with a vivid blue pigment has developed durable, reddish magentas inspired by lunar mineralogy and ...

For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold, according to a fourth-century imperial edict. Tyrian purple was a highly prized pigment developed ...

Researchers have uncovered traces of arare blue pigment on a 13,000-year-old stone artifact from Germany. This groundbreaking discovery suggests that early humans had access to a much wider palette ...

Two folds from an Astrolin Color Card pamphlet by Établissement Georget Fils Peintures Laquées et Vernis, Chantenay-Lès-Nantes (c. 1906), 6 3/10 x 3 3/4 inches (image courtesy Bibliothèque Forney, ...