The world is a canvas of vibrant colors, capturing the imagination and emotions of both artists and viewers. Art has always been a medium for creative expression, with pigments and compounds added to ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — More than a century ago, the science of art conservation was born in the U.S. at Harvard — and it all started with one man's collection of colors. The Forbes Pigment Collection The ...

Historic pigments in the Straus Center collection at Harvard Art Museums, which is reopening this Sunday (photograph by Zak Jensen, all images courtesy Harvard Art Museums) When the Harvard Art ...

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 ...

The colors of art change not just with trends, but availability as well. For reasons of being incredibly poisonous, expensive, or just involving way too many snails, here are five pigments that have ...

Art conservation departments are more or less ubiquitous in museums today, but it wasn’t always this way. The first dedicated conservation facility in the United States wasn’t founded until 1927, when ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Harvard University has been around for almost 400 years and over that time, the place has fostered all ...

The study of rock art and the analysis of its pigments represent a critical convergence of archaeology, materials science and chemistry. These interdisciplinary investigations not only elucidate the ...

Established in 2015 in Tennōzu, Tokyo, and attracting industry professionals and art enthusiasts from both Japan and abroad, ...

Hanoi’s streets were once beautiful landscapes in their own right, artist Le Van Xuong shows us. Aptly titled, The Miracle, an exhibition introduces for the first time 100 artworks by artist Le Van ...