Blue may be a universally beloved color for interiors, but it encompasses a vast number of different hues and tones, and that includes the highly complex, hotly-debated, and hard-to-define shade, ...

Stephen Head, president of Lone Star College-North Harris, asked me not long ago what the sparrow-size, aqua-blue birds were that had shown up in his yard. He wasn't the only one who wanted to know.

Bhasha Chakrabarti, "To Be So Black And Blue, Dominic As Neela Madhava" (2021) (all images courtesy the artist and M+B) When I Get That Mood Indigo at M+B, Los Angeles is a tribute to the complex ...

Stony Creek Colors is convincing farmers who used to grow tobacco to switch to indigo plants and selling the natural blue dye to fabric producers, including denim giant Cone Mills. The Goodlettsville, ...

Many people remember the colors of the rainbow by the acronym ROY G. BIV. For red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Well, the color indigo just made news. Indigo gets its name from the ...

What do Coretta Scott King's wedding dress, jazz and the middle passage all have in common? Scholar and author Imani Perry explains — it's the color blue. In her new book, Black in Blues: How a Color ...

Indigo dye for clothing is a lot older than the invention of blue jeans — almost 6,000 years older, to be exact. Scientists have found Andean cotton fabric from Peru with traces of the popular dye, ...

For archaeologists in the far-off future, two-legged cotton garments dyed with indigo will be classified as one of the most common human adornments of the 20th and 21st centuries. In typical ...

Bhasha Chakrabarti, "To Be So Black And Blue, Dominic As Neela Madhava" (2021) (all images courtesy the artist and M+B) When I Get That Mood Indigo at M+B, Los Angeles is a tribute to the complex ...