What with all the heat waves and thunderstorms, no one can blame you if your summer reading happens inside instead of on the beach. Here’s our second edition of arts-related things to read, watch and do:
- [article] Colorful stories: Allison Meier on Hyperallergic wrote a series of posts on historical art materials: pigments, pigments part 2, and paper. Painters and art historians will love reading about paints that are hard or impossible to find today because they’re “incredibly poisonous, expensive, or just involving way too many snails.”
- For a long-form read on the subject of color, check out the comments section of that first Hyperallergic article. Several readers made suggestions for nonfiction books about color, such as Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball. Continue reading Artful Links: Summer Reading, Part 2
