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Amanda Williams: Run Together and Look Ugly After the First Rain, Casey Kaplan, New York, February 28 – April 26, 2025. Photo: Dan Bradica Studio.
University News
Fall/25
Colorfast
By Tori Lee, AB’13, By Louise Lerner, ABʼ09

An alumna artist and a team of UChicago chemists revived a century-old recipe for blue pigment.

The interior of the coffin of Egyptian army commander and scribe Ipi-Ha-Ishetef is decorated with items the deceased would need in the afterlife, such as food, jewelry, and weapons.
University News
Spring/24
Color unearthed
By Chandler A. Calderon

An ISAC researcher and conservator illuminate the role of color in the ancient world.

A colorful selection of samples from the Forbes Pigment Collection housed at the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, Harvard Art Museums
University News
Summer/23
Monochromatic blues
By Carolyn Purnell, AM’07, PhD’13

Why there’s nothing neutral about gray.

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