In the art of Africa, the mask is a versatile, multipurpose facade. It may signify identity and the ancestors, politics and medicine or the invisible world of the spirits. And in whatever form a ma… ...

“The color doesn't have an ancient meaning,” she says. “However, using color symbolism, general rose symbolism, and the swirly look of the petals, we can form a meaning for this rose.

The last time I saw a group of Greg Otto’s paintings, about two years ago, he was doing brightly colored cityscapes that for the most part were unremarkable. The current exhibit of his more r… ...

Art Color & Meaning Knit Together in An Abstract Yarn. June 6, 2008. By Blake Gopnik. A lovely two-artist show that opened last week at the tiny Transformer gallery near Logan Circle looks into ...