If you want to understand society, look at the way it talks about hue, suggests a new tome from art historian Alexandra Loske. In the shadow of World War II, modern capitalism was beginning to take ...

Reviewed by Jeremy Tardo Fact checked by Michelle Regalado Key Takeaways Ancient Egyptians first used plants like henna and ...

When you spend all your time in a book, you think you know it. All the editors at Merriam-Webster know Webster’s Third Edition, but now that we’re undertaking a revision of the beast, we’re ears-deep ...

The use of red in clothing often means power, or “look at me—I stand out.” Look no further than the 2016 presidential race in the United States, where one candidate is famous for wearing an overly ...

Although we often romanticize the bare marble of ancient sculpture today, most of these specimens were in fact painted in bright shades of blue, red, yellow, brown and many other hues. Over the past ...

Stephen Seals stood onstage waiting to be auctioned off. Moments later, a white slave auctioneer pointed a gun at one of the other Black men gathered with Seals, and a Black mother cried for her ...

"Particles of Color," on display at the Texas Science and Natural History Museum, is shining a light on the fashion ...

There are an almost countless amount of prop bets you can wager on the Super Bowl and one of the most fun ones that people love to bet on is the color of the Gatorade that will be poured on the ...

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With an artist's eye and a surgeon's precision, Olga Shirnina -- who works under the name Color By Klimbim -- uses Photoshop to breathe new life into black-and-white photos from Russian history. With ...