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 ...

What does color in art signify? Does color in art by black artists have more significance than color in work by artists of other ethnicity's? Questions like those above will arise as one views "The ...

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 ...

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 the art of Africa, the mask is a versatile, multipurpose facade. It may signify identity and the ancestors, politics and medicine or the invisible world of the spirits. And in whatever form a mask ...

Installation view of “Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler,” showing work by Dona Nelson, Jackie Saccoccio, Carrie Moyer, and Laura Owens (courtesy Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University.