Colour – ARTES

Featured Exhibition: Revealing, Reversible and Resplendent: 15th-17th-Century Italian and Spanish Textiles, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, until 16 June 2019

This exhibition showcases silk and linen fragments spanning the 15th to 17th centuries, a period of expanded exploration and trade, when Italy and Spain emerged as major centres of textile production. During this era, textiles with three-dimensional effects became popular within the Christian church and the secular world. Cloth and threads were fashioned into elaborateContinue reading “Featured Exhibition: Revealing, Reversible and Resplendent: 15th-17th-Century Italian and Spanish Textiles, Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, until 16 June 2019”

Call for Contributions: Chromatography special issue, HARTS and Minds Journal

The Graduate School of Arts and Humanities at Bristol University seeks submissions for the newt issue of their postgraduate journal HARTS and Minds, which will be dedicated to Chromatography or Colour Studies and will be published March 2018. This Special Issue aims to renegotiate the idea that colour is rooted solely in the visual. HARTSContinue reading “Call for Contributions: Chromatography special issue, HARTS and Minds Journal”

Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain (Santa Fe)

Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain Museum of Spanish Colonial Art (Santa Fe) Open until 28 February 2016. This exhibition, in a sense, is complementary to The Red that Colored the World, recently on view at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe). The cochineal exhibition is due to openContinue reading “Exhibition: Blue on Blue: Indigo and Cobalt in New Spain (Santa Fe)”