Like all the elements of art, color is important. Color is often one of the first things we tend to notice in a piece of art.

When readers think of the people behind the scenes of a comic book, they often think of the writer and the artist. But there’s a whole world of people in different positions working to make a comic ...

Brenda Goodman, “Untitled (A-15)” (2009), oil on wood, 14 x 18 in (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) Paul Klee isn’t thought of as a 20th-century master for contemporary artists to mine from ...

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 ...

I've been a tattoo artist for years. In addition to black-and-gray work, I specialize in color-realism designs. But the latter requires a little more research for the best results, so there are some ...

Performance artist Violeta Luna in Virgins and Goddesses (photo by Zen Cohen, courtesy the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures) At Ford Foundation, which is mission-focused on dismantling ...