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 ...

Jim Waid works wonders with a kitchen spatula. • We're not talking about whipping up a scrumptious soufflé or delectable dessert. • Waid — a prolific Tucson artist who has won widespread acclaim for ...

Historically, purple has not been a democratic color. It rarely occurs in nature, so when people in the eastern Mediterranean discovered a purple dye 3,500-years-ago by crushing thousands of sea ...

In the installation Color Wheel, the color of the gestures on each canvas are complementary to the background color. Alex Munro, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Pat Steir’s color wheel is not ...

Across acrylic, oil, watercolor, printmaking, ceramics, collage, and public art commissions that include many of these mediums, Robin Strayhorn works in a world of living color that merges the ...

In American art since the 1960s, has there been a more profound colorist than Peter Alexander? The artist, who died Tuesday morning at his Santa Monica home at 81, regularly harnessed the ...

Nudes also interest Abstractionist Jules Olitski but mainly as an excuse to keep his draftsmanship in shape. Ever so often, a nude model poses for him while he, Critic Clement Greenberg and a couple ...