I spent hours on the plane yesterday listening to podcasts, mostly lectures from the Big Idea series and the Backdoor Broadcasting Company. Some were awful (not naming any names), but my favourite was Philip Ball on Chemistry and Color in Art. I like discussions of art history, but I particularly love it when the materiality of the artwork becomes ( Read more... )

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Two excerpts from David Batchelor, Chromophobia (2000).

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Chromophobia manifests itself in the many and varied attempts to purge from culture, to devalue colour, to diminish its significance, to deny its complexity. More specifically: this purging of colour is usually accomplished in one of two ways. In the first, colour is made to be the ( Read more... )