He had planted the rhododendrons, too, not at all for their brief, dramatic show of colour in May and June, but for their dark green, leathery leaves and toughness of stem, their substantial look. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The colour had come back to his face, and his eyes were clear, and fully awake and aware. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Her features were blurred, her colouring indistinct, the setting of her eyes and the texture of her hair were still uncertain, still to be revealed. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A sound without shape or colour sounds strange. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“This is Leo. It’s a black-and-white photograph of him, but see how someone coloured his hair red? Maybe he was Oberon and Eleanora’s son. That would make his name Leo Marvel!” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She has more colour in her cheeks than usual, and looks, oh, so sweet. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The following year, Isaac Newton published his epic work on light and colour, Opticks, having deliberately sat on it for thirty years, waiting for Hooke to die. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

The fish had turned silver from his original purple and silver, and the stripes showed the same pale violet colour as his tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr Wormwood's fine crop of black hair was now a dirty silver, the colour this time of a tightrope-walker's tights that had not been washed for the entire circus season. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The stars were eager to participate; hardly had the blan­ket of colour been pulled a little than they started to shine through the deep blue. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

And the colour of the ones that remained . Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The battle chart, with its coloured pins and flags and symbols, was propped up on its easel. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Between the rose bowls the books were duly set out—a row of nursery quartos opened invitingly each at some gaily coloured image of beast or fish or bird. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The massive thighs which emerged from out of the smock were encased in a pair of extraordinary breeches, bottle-green in colour and made of coarse twill. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then she raised her head and looked him in the eyes again; and a colour came in her pale face. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Under the low red glare of sunset, the beacon, and the gibbet, and the mound of the Battery, and the opposite shore of the river, were plain, though all of a watery lead colour. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Manderley stood out like an enchanted house, every window aflame, the grey walls coloured by the falling stars. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mildred, leaning anxiously, nervously, as if to plunge, drop, fall into that swarming immensity of colour to drown in its bright happiness. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colour of the place was in the walls and men. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the Wart looked round the busy kitchen, which was coloured by the flames tiff it looked like hell, with sorrowful affection. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She fried the locusts to a deep brown colour, salted them heavily and then served them with the pap. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the domed ceiling of the hall, the colour organ had momentarily painted a tropical sunset. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A storm of charged particles rushed through my head like lightning, giving off strange flashes of coloured lights. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes suddenly seemed to catch something in one of them, “The Westminster Gazette”—I knew it by the colour—and he grew quite white. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The next morning, all his warts had turned a brownish-black colour. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The colour had mounted a little in her face. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

But whatever the size or colour of a vehicle, one thing was constant: the furious driving. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A great sheet of white paper was pinned on the wall, covered with curious lines, and little coloured dots, in blocks, together. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The coloured students in Alexandra had till now refused to participate in the school boycotts, claiming that they were not being taught Bantu Education. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was small for a Cyclops, still a child, really - a little over six feet tall, his messy brown hair crusted with salt water, his big single eye the colour of maple syrup. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The colour had flooded into his face, and the last words were shouted. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It is the musical equivalent of filling a painted canvas with thousands of colours instead of just a few. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He was the colour of all horses, representing all his offspring. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It has yellow eyes, bronze horns and similarly coloured spikes that protrude from its long tail. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is like knowing about secondary colours as well as primary colours. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a placid explosion of orange and red, a great chromatic symphony, a colour canvas of su­pernatural proportions, truly a splendid Pacific sunset, quite wasted on me. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The victim again, bruised and bleeding in bold colours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

He pointed to a photograph of a piece of amber the colour of honey. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks were very pink and her lips were very fresh and full of colour and they looked soft and relaxed. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All of them have a power of colour which you hadn’t attained before, which in itself is a rare quality, but you have gone further.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

They could hardly believe it was true, and yet here were green branches huskily rattling on their hats as they bent beneath them, and little coloured flowers curling round their shoes. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She looked up and saw a brightly coloured bird, which sang to her the exact same song that it had sung to the uncles. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

The Trunchbull was in such a rage that her face had taken on a boiled colour and little flecks of froth were gathering at the corners of her mouth. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

I have already discussed his work on light and colour, which led to the famous row with Hooke. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

As Democritus put it, ‘By convention sweet, by convention bitter, by convention hot, by convention cold, by convention colour: but in reality atoms and void.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He does not believe that the shape or colour of a plant has any significance for an understanding of its medical use. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

What he tells Theo is that he knows he's reached the point where “it really comes quite readily to me to paint a given object, whatever the shape or colour may be, without hesitation.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

It was as big as a plum and about the same colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

This the touch discovers in sensible bodies, whose extremities come within our reach; and the eye takes both from bodies and colours, whose boundaries are within its view. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Found only in Ireland, it achieves a height of up to six inches and is green in colour. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Richard Parker’s tongue, the size and colour of a rubber hot- water bottle, retreated and his mouth closed. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

If this is all that atoms have, then the qualities that we perceive in the world—colour, taste, smell, sound, texture, temperature—must be by-products of size, shape and movement. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The gold looked very fair and pure, and Frodo thought how rich and beautiful was its colour, how perfect was its roundness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Everything had the colour of winter, the faded lichen green, like a green velvet cushion which has been left in the sun for years. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

They saw now that the pillars were richly carved, gleaming dully with gold and half-seen colours. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Soon the cave was filled with hundreds of beautifully coloured bubbles, all drifting gently through the air. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wore these spots of shine and silver like tilaks, the marks of colour that we Hin­dus wear on our foreheads as symbols of the divine. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She looked up, while I still gazed at her: no start, no increase or failure of colour betrayed emotion, consciousness of guilt, or fear of detection. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Their bodies were covered with sores, which punctured and oozed pus, and their hair turned to a strange orange colour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Air Marshal’s face turned the colour of a ripe plum. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tall shrubs looked dark and drab now that the colour had gone. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He coloured the second line from the top red, in order to give each tune an absolute bearing in relation to all other times. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The corn was a curious, dirty beige colour in the early light, and very still. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There was one cardboard notice pinned over the counter that had been done in coloured felt-tips, and at the top of it was the word “look” with a staring eye drawn inside each “o.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

His legs were as hard and thin as ram’s legs and the skin around his calves was almost exactly the colour of mutton fat. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘It’s your spit that makes a Gobstopper change colour,’ he kept insisting. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But we would have felt ridiculous had we hauled down our colours. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father was unconscious and his face looked an oddly grey colour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

The surface was the colour of damp sand, rough and grainy to the touch, except where bits of moss and lichen grew out of the cracks. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

All this happened in about the time that it would take a sixpenny rocket to start off with its fiery swish, bend down from its climax and disperse itself in thunder and coloured stars. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each time, the colour and intensity of the flames were different. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Danvers knew the colour of her eyes, her smile, the texture of her hair. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

I scrutinized them for any differences from black schoolchildren, aside from colour. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a building unremittingly unrevealing of what it held inside, with thick, featureless walls pale blue in colour and high, narrow windows impossible to look in through. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They had been locked up as if they were very precious, but they were so patched and weatherstained that their original colour could hardly be guessed: it might have been dark green. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Captain Hardcastle sported a moustache that was the same colour as his hair, and oh what a moustache it was! Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

What makes it a great deal more difficult to imagine is that everything which human beings would consider to be above the water level was fringed with all the colours of the spectrum. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps the great broadcasting stations with their beams of colour and light and talk and chatter went first into oblivion. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

His head was the size and colour of the lifebuoy, with teeth. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Think of the glass itself, with its five grand colours stained right through. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the gentlemen’s appearing, her colour increased; yet she received them with tolerable ease, and with a propriety of behaviour equally free from any symptom of resentment or any unnecessary complaisance. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When I say I saw her, I don’t quite mean it literally, though she did have body and colour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The variations in its colouring, however they were to be explained, were certainly not due to any surface irregularity. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then the light became colour: green, gold, silver, white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But with all my knowledge and scepticism, I have never been able to argue with a one-hundred-piece symphony orchestra, full colour, three dimensions, and I being in and part of those incredible parlours. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea turned white and all colour disappeared. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Lancelot’s well-known habit of abrupt departures lent colour to the story. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pegasus’s wings were the colours of an eagle’s - gold, white, brown and rust - which made him look much more handsome and regal than plain white. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Surely I had more colour as a rule? Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Vera drank a little of the spirit The colour came back to her face. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

It was dead, or nearly there, and turning all kinds of colours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

What a bright spot of colour you have on each cheek! and how strangely your eyes glitter! Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

Turned, the babies at once fell silent, then began to crawl towards those clusters of sleek colours, those shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above me on the wall hangs the glass case with the coloured butterflies that once I collected. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Oh, and he is, you know, and looking so much better, I thought that yesterday – indeed, I said so, to Mr Hooper, I said, Edmund is a much better colour. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

One Gobstopper would provide about an hour’s worth of non-stop sucking and if you took it out of your mouth and inspected it every five minutes or so, you would find it had changed colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the colour of sand, and its body quivered all over, its eyes were huge and glittery. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

Montag stood alone in the winter weather, with the parlour walls the colour of dirty snow. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drained of blood and awash he looked the colour of the silver backing of a mirror and his stripes still showed. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The makos were larger and had mouths bursting with frightening teeth, but they too were nicely coloured, an indigo blue that shimmered beautifully in the sun. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyelids were a bruised colour, a purple smudge. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

His skin was the colour of wheat toast. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes were a scary gray and blue colour, ’bout the same as the sky afore a storm. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Maybe my mother did see reality in all its shades and colours, and was simply using organized religion to cultivate qualities like patience, resiliency, fortitude, hope and optimism. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above them, the evening sky glowed a murky terracotta, the same colour as the building’s walls. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As she pronounced these words, Mr. Darcy changed colour; but the emotion was short, and he listened without attempting to interrupt her while she continued: Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

You must imagine a hot and humid place, bathed in sunshine and bright colours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

So much was done and gone, that when I went out at the gate, the light of the day seemed of a darker colour than when I went in. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The land was flat and treeless and there seemed to be no colour in it at all. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet again Ents are more like Men, more changeable than Elves are, and quicker at taking the colour of the outside, you might say. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The whole inside of the place was a tankful of colour. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The four seasons were coloured like the edge of a rose petal for them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair was the colour of overcooked spaghetti. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You take an eager interest in that gentleman’s concerns,” said Darcy, in a less tranquil tone, and with a heightened colour. Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

When he arrived it was nearly six o’clock, and the sun was setting full and warm, and the red light streamed in through the window and gave more colour to the pale cheeks. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

His response was to submit to the society a comprehensive paper on light and colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

She’d expected someone who looked sick, but instead she is face-to-face with “a sturdy broad-shouldered man, with a healthy colour, a smile on his face and a very resolute appearance.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

“It is like!” he murmured; “the eye is well managed: the colour, light, expression, are perfect. It smiles!” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

‘OK, OK. Can I have my hair cut and coloured at Hair Flair, then?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed a little rouge on my cheeks in a wretched attempt to give myself colour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

It was shiny, like a polished shoe; a deep tan colour with circled red dots drifting all over it. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, like the woodman, was the colour of mahogany, and the curled hairs on his chest made a golden haze where the sun caught them. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, my father's face had gone a dull reddish colour, like no colour I had seen on a living being. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Blue and yellow are easy paint colours to recognize. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Quarter-Stars were pink, the Stripes were a fiendish, blue- green colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

And we are out here, and the city is there, all wrapped up in its own coat of a thousand colours. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her image flickered through a spectrum of colours. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I could feel the colour rising to my cheeks; if this man didn’t know 1 was lying then, he didn’t deserve to be on the police force. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as if they'd discovered black and white, then maybe brown, but never thought to look for further colours. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Electric blue in colour, up to eight inches in height and very mischievous, the pixie delights in tricks and practical jokes of all descriptions. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

If anybody committed any of the grosser errors —such as putting metal on metal or colour on colour—he became electrified with passion. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

That small motion, the white and red colour, a strange fire because it meant a different thing to him. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt a wave of colour come into my face, my throat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Mina is well, and looks to be getting stronger; her colour is coming back. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

“I’m not a person who ever has much colour.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His armour, his skin and his dragon-scale legs were all the colour of charcoal. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

As it emerges from the drop of water the white light has been split into an array of colours. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

He laid down a flat strip of dark red plasticine, following the colouring of strata on a map. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t realize you liked the colour yellow so much.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The light had faded and faded, sucking the colour out of the trees and bushes, until everything around them looked pale brown, like an old photograph. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, her feathers were the colour of dried blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His features were twisted like those of a person undergoing severe torture, and his skin had turned the colour of snow. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The colours of the Union Jack are red, white and blue. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

How I blessed those stolid, flannelled figures, for in a few minutes his face had settled back into repose, the colour had returned, and he was deriding the Surrey bowling in healthy irritation. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A little colour came into the man’s cheeks. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here the cars were of the craziest colours. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some of them were even striped like bathing tents, but the most part were in plain colours, yellow and green and so on. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy’s eyes in form and colour; but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

Again the operation; again the narcotic; again some return of colour to the ashy cheeks, and the regular breathing of healthy sleep. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

A green to outshine food colouring and flashing neon lights. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

His voice is rising, spots of colour appear on his cheeks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shortly after they had planned this story, a brightly coloured bird landed on a tree in front of them. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

In modern times, a small difference in skin colour, dialect or religion has been enough to prompt one group of Sapiens to set about exterminating another group. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a pause, and I felt the colour flood into my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He had spent an afternoon here, before Kingshaw had come, and found a trunk full of odd lumps of rock, of different textures and colours. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

“Just a matter of colouring,” he said, “or lack of it. It is only a question of getting used to. Who is to say this colour is right and that is not?” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two nearly square biscuits, pale in colour and fragrant in smell. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Coconut thatching, some of it still part of the old palm lightning had destroyed, as I could tell from the colour. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the colour had been washed out of him, it seemed, so as to leave no handle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was just a touch of colour in it, a pale sea-green, soft and shimmering and very beautiful. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Slowly, one by one, the flames gave up their colour and dropped, until at last there were none left—only a glowing heap, ashen-edged. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

The woods in the valley were still leafy and full of colour, and seemed peaceful and wholesome. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Good heavens, it looked like just a splodge of colours and all along it was a kangaroo in football boots having a sandwich! Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

The room was filled with them, even the walls took colour from them, becoming rich and glowing in the morning sun. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her face had gone the colour of the underside of a fish. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Faded loops of coloured paper hung in the windows, and on the shelves were shabby little boxes of Sherbet, old Liquorice Sticks, and very withered, very hard Apples-on-a-stick. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Over the ears it was yellowish, the colour of a ferret’s, and would soon be white. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A bowl of roses in a drawing-room had a depth of colour and scent they had not possessed in the open. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Scaramouche, a self-employed painter, was one of the best tennis players among people of colour in Johannesburg. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Madame,” Poirot waved an airy hand, “detectives have to ask all sorts of questions. For instance, perhaps you will tell me the colour of your dressing gown?” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The food was mostly in the form of very thin cakes, made of a meal that was baked a light brown on the outside, and inside was the colour of cream. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

I could be in the south of Spain, at the beach; I could be in Italy, the Cinque Terre, all those pretty coloured houses and the trains ferrying the tourists back and forth. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Moved by the gown, by some strange memory of miniver and colour, the poor Wild Man had gone from the King’s table to the well. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I looked at the floor, I could feel myself colouring and, realizing it was making it worse, I gave a false laugh and said, “Interview. Interview.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pinched some colour into my cheeks and stood waiting for them to come into the room. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He believes that the shape, colour and texture of a plant can be a clue to how it will work as a medicine because God designed nature to be interpreted by mankind. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Kemmerich’s face changes colour, it lifts from the pillow and is so pale that it gleams. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock; she has got a beautiful colour since she has been here. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

As we went in, I noticed the front door had coloured glass panels, and once Tommy closed it behind us, everything got pretty dark. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles thought she looked like a little old woman, “but with her heightened colour, sparkling eyes & bridled smiles, she looked, as I thought, quite charming.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This colour is refracted a second time, but it remains a fine beam of light and its hue is unchanged. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

It’s happened to all of us: there’s sunlight and shade, spots and patterns of colour, your mind is elsewhere—so you don’t make out what is right in front of you. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

They looked like old-fashioned bathing tents, and were every colour of the rainbow. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"It can't change colour all by itself! What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone's grandmother gone wrong!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I should think from the colour of his clothes that he is working in the quarries.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The room glowed into colour round the lovers, who had released each other quickly. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The opposing page is entirely taken up by a colour photo of the swim­ming pool of the Aurobindo Ashram. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Five-stepping with the other four hundred round and round Westminster Abbey, Lenina and Henry were yet dancing in another world—the warm, the richly coloured, the infinitely friendly world of soma-holiday. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dorado did a most extraordinary thing as it died: it began to flash all kinds of colours in rapid succession. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

She wipes them away, and as she does so something in her expression changes and her face loses all colour. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was not suffering yet from dehydration, so the liquid was pale in colour. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Although she said nothing I felt guilty and ashamed, as though I had been caught trespassing, and I felt the tell-tale colour come up into my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The sand glittered gold, the colour of ichor - godly blood. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It is kept as a pet by those who enjoy its kaleidoscopic colour changes, and its venom is one of the few substances known to kill Horklumps. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

He assigned each of the twelve notes in the scale a different colour, based on Opticks, Sir Isaac Newton’s 1704 study of light, colour and diffraction. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

You have added much in several ways, & especially in taking ye colours of thin plates into philosophical consideration. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

Since a reflecting telescope does not rely on refraction, it does not produce a halo of different colours around the image. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

One colour passes through a hole in the screen and encounters a second prism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

The Assistant began wrapping the things in coloured paper. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

The colour of cinders and ash about them, and the continual smell of burning from their pipes. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had lost the grey colour now, and the old unpleasant smile was forming on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“She said she recognized the colours of his school uniform,” Granny said. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Little darling!—with her long curls and her blue eyes, and such a sweet colour as she has; just as if she were painted!—Bessie, I could fancy a Welsh rabbit for supper.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

"It's the same colour as mum's only much dirtier looking." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Tom and I, making plans: what we’d plant in the garden, what we’d hang on the walls, what colour to paint the spare room—already, even then, in my head, the baby’s room. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps because it had been raining the colouring was indistinct. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He and only he could award ‘colours’ to others. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were almost exactly like the bubbles we ourselves blow from soapy water, except that these had even brighter and more beautiful colours swimming on their surfaces. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I asked, somewhat confused, for the two phone booths were exactly the same in all respects—colour, size and shape. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christmas decorations still hung on the walls, and a few strings of coloured fairy lights blinked on and off, like a secret code. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Kingshaw followed, no longer running, suddenly very aware of this new place, of the different shape and colour and arrangement of it. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

The nightdress was inside the case, thin as gossamer, apricot in colour. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Her great horsy face had turned the colour of molten lava and her eyes were glittering with fury. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He would award school ‘colours’ by walking up to the chosen boy after a match and shaking him by the hand and saying, ‘Graggers on your teamer!’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I was pleased: finally I had a job, a job with a company that professed not to discriminate on the basis of colour or race. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

You must think of a tar smell too, and the colours of the sea. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above his head, the coloured beam of light fell upon a small and primitive piece of tapestry—a picture of some knights in chain mail, with nose guards on their painted helmets, chasing a boar. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

As things emerged in outline and filled with colour, hope increased until it was like a song in my heart. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to colour over his failure to keep his word. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing the same colours as the white boys. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only their blush was a deep olive colour, and it was the blush of rage. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Will that change the colour back?" the father asked anxiously. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, they were a dull colour, a sort of greyish brown, and the mottled white tips of their fins held no special attraction. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was tall and gaunt, with a pale skin and sunken eyes the colour of a kingfisher’s wing, neither blue nor green. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a uniformity and blandness about them, as if our palette now had fewer than a dozen colours. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As we already know, Mrs Wormwood's hair was dyed a brilliant platinum blonde, very much the same glistening silvery colour as a female tightrope-walker's tights in a circus. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The rights of the people shall be the same regardless of race, colour or sex. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“If you believed it impossible to be true,” said Elizabeth, colouring with astonishment and disdain, “I wonder you took the trouble of coming so far. What could your ladyship propose by it?” Pride and Prejudice 1813-01-28T00:00:00Z

But it is necessary to know how to colour over this nature effectively, and to be a great pretender and dissembler. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z

Round the arena there was a world of colour so dazzling and moving and twinkling as to make one blink one’s eyes. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wondered what colour the boat had been. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

In both cheeks was a spot of hard colour. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

“Only one thing, Madame, a somewhat personal question. The colour of your dressing gown.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was like flying in a twilight which had reduced everything to shades of the same colour, and, as in the twilight, there was a considerable amount of gloom. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard tells Aurier that yellow was Vincent's “favourite colour, the symbol of the light that he dreamed of as being in people’s hearts as well as in works of art.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

But we noted down what other foreign steamers would leave London with the same tide, and we satisfied ourselves that we knew the build and colour of each. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

The rings are seen by looking down on the lens from above, and the phenomenon is related to the way a thin layer of oil on water produces a swirling pattern of colours. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

His face was turning pale green, the colour of sour apples. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

‘How can they make it keep changing colour?’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It gives me a little frisson even now, walking past that house— butterflies suddenly swarm in my stomach, and a smile comes to my lips and colour to my cheeks. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aristotle had denied that the colour yellow is really present in the rainbow, and had identified only three colours; Theodoric insisted that yellow was a fourth colour in the rainbow. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Natural harmonics are ‘hidden’ notes, usually quite high in pitch, which are found within any given sound, like the additional colours of the spectrum that are contained within white light. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A smell leapt out so pungent and disgusting that it seemed to colour the air. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! I may mention without indiscretion, I hope, that I noticed the colour of your dressing gown on the way from Aleppo to Stamboul. A pale mauve, I believe.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

The picture was a nightmare, condensed, easily passed from hand to hand, in the forest, all whirring colour and flight. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘There doesn’t seem to be any pattern. The timing, the colour, the height of the fire ... I don’t get it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The whole scene starts out again in the vivid colours of the moment, down to the drops of April rain on the windows of the court, glittering in the rays of April sun. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Their backs were a rich ul­tramarine and their stomachs snow white, colours that vanished to grey or black when they were at any depth, but which close to the surface sparkled with surprising brilliance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

I knew all the colour was draining away from my face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The bark was greyish green in colour, thin and smooth, and soft enough that I could mark it with my fingernail. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Hidden under the straw was a little pile of lump sugar and several bunches of ribbon of different colours. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

She shook herself clear of me, and angry colour flooded her dead white face. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

“You don’t look well,” she said immediately, looking me up and down, “much too thin in the face, and no colour. What’s wrong with you?” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were closed, his face was an ashen colour, and there were beads of sweat on his forehead. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z

Meals were regular and scrumptious, and I had a large colour televison set in my room, whose floor was decked with Persian carpets. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Insecure, by contrast, is “a story in which we’re allowed to have this group of women of colour in south LA with very regular problems”. Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on being 2018’s funniest character 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

The Pantone system was devised in 1963 in the US to solve the problem of complicated colour matching in the printing industry. Pantone launches new shade of red to end menstruation stigma 2020-09-29T04:00:00Z

Fetto says that fillers and Botox are not so prevalent among women of colour. ‘I’d rather spend £300 on fillers than face cream’: the rise of tweakment face 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

A typically frenzied edition of Radiolab, dealing with the topic of colours, begins with a story about Isaac Newton stabbing himself in the eye, and doesn't really let up from there. Catch-up TV Guide: From Princess Elizabeth to Alan Carr: Chatty Man 2012-06-01T23:05:39Z

Music has no colour, real hip-hop artists do not make music for any specific type of person. Miley Cyrus has gone hip-hop. What's the problem? 2013-07-05T15:04:32Z

But the conversation about the aesthetics of representation – what people of colour actually look like on screen – is rarely addressed. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Before his premature death in 1978, he used to carry around wooden poles embellished with similarly bright blocks of colour. Frieze Art: London gears up for annual fair 2010-10-13T19:28:00Z

Rising sea temperatures, linked to global warming, have bleached the colour from much of its coral. A world in water 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

Creative Director Rob Phillips said this year's collections were "vibrant, with lots of colour and texture". In pictures 2011-06-08T15:24:41Z

It seems that martyrdom wasn't the aim, Davison wanted the King's horse to cross the line wearing suffragette colours. David Bowie - Five Years; Clare Balding's Secrets of a Suffragette – TV review 2013-05-27T06:00:13Z

Far more worrisome is what Erivo’s nomination suggests about the way Academy voters evaluate performers of colour, who seem to be the most visible, and taken the most seriously, within the trappings of white pity. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The pared-back aesthetic continued with a tightly edited colour palette of navy, cream, ivory and black. Marc Jacobs at New York fashion week: army fatigues with a luxe edge 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

The lighting, the colour, every detail is precise.” Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

Once it became clear that he only dated women of colour, my doubts grew. My search for Mr Woke: a dating diary 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z

“You’re born a certain way and loving somebody is loving somebody. If you strip away gender and skin colour, we’re all the same and, ultimately, love is the driving force.” ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

It's about colour, lines, light distribution – and inner balance. Candida Höfer's best photograph – an 18th-century theatre in Mantua 2013-02-06T17:15:32Z

The colours are muted but gorgeous, and while the people of Warley are all pale as alabaster, they look more elegant than ill. TV review: Room at the Top; Doomsday Preppers 2012-09-26T21:00:02Z

There are lashings of gore, there is slavery, torture and woe, there is Moloch; there is also a stunning palette of colours, tastes and sounds in the descriptions of food, music and architecture. World literature tour: France 2011-03-28T11:30:33Z

With joyous freedom and a casual command of fluffy gossamer colours, the master sensualist has recreated the richness of a lynx fur hung over Fracastoro's shoulders. Titian discovery at National Gallery 2013-01-07T21:51:45Z

So we propose the following five questions instead: Are there two named characters of colour? How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

Is it a Hounslow thing or to do with the colour of my skin? Ikonika: the woman pushing dubstep forward 2010-04-08T22:20:00Z

Another distinctive children's animation from Ocelot, although the extra 3D adds little to his distinctive blend of old-fashioned silhouette animation with vibrant patterns and colours. This week's new films 2012-05-25T23:05:15Z

The vivid colours of Hundertwasser’s paintings float around the floor, and later become a field of flowers as we move through the nature sequence. Paris’s first digital art museum: all lit up at Atelier des Lumières 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z

Steadily paced and coloured with beautifully spare instrumentation, mostly plucked guitar and rippling piano, there's none the less a quiet propulsiveness that tugs through each song, imbuing things with the sense of unseen things stirring. Beth Orton: Sugaring Season – review 2012-09-29T23:05:30Z

This one is arguably worse, because it tends to be reserved for women of colour, and reinforces the “angry black woman” stereotype. Feisty, flounce and bossy: the words used to put women down 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z

Roma was filmed in colour and converted to black and white in post-production, with the tonal values manipulated to achieve the desired look. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

“He is purple – the gay-pride colour; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle – the gay-pride symbol,’’ he wrote in the National Liberty Journal. Teletubbies' Tinky Winky actor Simon Barnes dies aged 52 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z

Time has inevitably coloured our responses to some of it. The Rake's Progress 2010-08-09T21:01:00Z

At 62, he employed a greater range of vocal colour than when he was a younger man. Schubert: lieder of the pack 2011-03-10T22:43:00Z

It is not a realistic leaf yet it responds to the visible world – it is the colour of a leaf. Howard Hodgkin - the last English romantic painter 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

When Riley tried to understand Bonnard's colour, and attempted to analyse Mondrian's Broadway Boogie-Woogie, she encountered her own difficulties, and couldn't follow their logic. Bridget Riley: paintings and related works 2010-11-22T21:31:00Z

He added: “I think we send a very clear message to people of colour that you are not welcome here, people who have contributed so much to our medium and our industry.” Baftas 2020: Sam Mendes and 1917 emerge victorious with seven awards 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

In the pit the BBC Symphony Orchestra, sounding refreshed by a break from the , tirelessly brought out the colour and humour in the score. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

On the way out, my mum said, and it was an almost throwaway remark, "By the way, we don't mind what colour the child is." How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z

De Kooning's paintings are explosions of savage lines and romantic colour. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

I was also in awe of the illustrations with the beautiful pastel colours looking like they've just been poured into the sturdy thick ink outlines. Walter and the No-Need-to-worry Suit by Rachel Bright - review 2012-11-15T12:00:00Z

The Seventh Doctor is clearly the inexplicable Dragonfire cliffhanger, while the Second Doctor is the footage from his colour return in The Five Doctors. Doctor Who recap: The Name of the Doctor – series 33, episode 13 2013-05-18T18:45:00Z

And some of us like to wear pastel colours sometimes. What Britain's ballet stars made of Black Swan 2011-01-05T21:31:00Z

One man in the audience was overheard blaming the painting's lack of colour. Picasso, Manet and Matisse - auctions revel in Europe's richest art sales 2010-06-23T23:27:00Z

He arrives in primary colours, dangling jauntily from a string, and quickly wins her heart. Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the wild 2011-02-06T00:04:04Z

You can order a pair of bespoke jeans, customising them from an array of thread colours and rivet designs. Jean genius: how Kojima became Japan’s denim mecca 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

This allows owner June Blake to experiment with colour. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

And each word, sometimes each letter, has its own colour running against it. Richard Hamilton: The Late Work; Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes – review 2012-10-13T23:06:10Z

They were less concerned with the lower end of the market, the shilling plain and two shilling coloured prints, which included the "drolls", social commentary, political satire and vulgar jokes. British Museum's rare prints purchase offers glimpse of vanished paintings 2010-10-03T17:10:00Z

Geometric shapes in primary colours over their features highlight how, to a computer, a face is just a series of abstractable properties. When new grows old 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Connections are made with exhibits inside the museum – the reeds in clarinets or the plants used to colour tribal dress. Horniman Museum; Bauhaus Live – review 2012-05-26T23:05:30Z

He's not afraid to use portamento, and colours and shades his interpretations by stretching and delaying the beat away from the straitjacket of strict metronome markings. Pianist Angelo Villani: 'It's easy to lose sight of sharing moods and emotions' 2012-10-02T16:16:25Z

The symphony, written in four continuous movements, juxtaposes bold blocks of orchestral colour, sonority seemingly taking precedence over musical development. SCO/Elts 2010-05-05T21:00:00Z

Mughal-e-Azam is a landmark of cinema, even if its version of history is only slightly more realistic than its new colours. Mughal-e-Azam: royally glossing over history's true colours 2013-02-14T10:17:06Z

As anyone who has ever had to prepare colour pictures for monochrome printing will be aware, contrast and tone have to be manipulated so the image doesn’t end up as a grey smudge. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

If words have colours, what colour is "coloration?" Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

Yet there is still a wonderful security and confidence about her approach, a flexibility in her phrasing, and a remarkable control of dynamic and colour. Bach: Violin, Sonatas & Partitas – review 2012-08-23T20:45:01Z

He fishes out a copy from one of the wall racks and we gaze in wonder at the colours and textures. Off the chart: the big comeback of paper maps 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z

Bruce's vividly coloured chamber score skims the Pacific rim for influences, combining gamelan crashes and plunky pentatonics with the incongruous wheeze of an accordion to create a beguiling, imaginary hybrid of Indo-European folk music. The Firework-Maker's Daughter – review 2013-03-24T18:11:00Z

When the soloists join the choirs for the final movement, they bring with them those instrumental colours, together with fragments of the texts they have sung. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Each in their own way, the books explore colour either on its own terms or as a prism through which the writing emerges. ?50,000 prize for books about 'colour' announces shortlist 2011-02-11T17:19:55Z

J Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, "became fixated on Keeler's attraction to 'coloured men' and this solidified his conviction that British sexual and security looseness was a menace to the United States". An English Affair: Sex, Class and Power in the age of Profumo by Richard Davenport-Hines – review 2013-01-14T09:00:01Z

Po-faced and bombastic in the encore, it sounds nothing like Scissor Sisters, as though some songwriting committee coloured in the notes on a chart hit template and gave it to Calvin Harris to produce. Scissor Sisters; Gossip ? review 2012-05-19T23:08:04Z

"It's very significant indeed, it's the world's first natural colour film and the fact that it's a Brit who invented it is fantastic." World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

Souls had their colours, pitch black to speckled, to pearly grey, as they moved towards a state Scientologists still promote: Clear. The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead by Carl Watkins – review 2013-01-12T09:31:00Z

A skin colour I hadn’t seen up close before: delicately tanned, even though it was winter. A letter to… a very special au pair 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z

She focuses on textiles and surface textures, working in block colours to create strong looks rather than relying on decoration and pattern. Why we're watching… Phoebe English 2013-05-30T14:59:01Z

The spring/summer 2013 is a riot of prints in vivid pop colours – particularly fuchsia pink. Why we're watching Ostwald Helgason, designers 2013-01-27T08:00:02Z

Many others followed, including a large-scale work commissioned by the festival, linking colour with dance and music. Alan Martin obituary 2013-02-08T17:15:37Z

It was the second year running that no acting nominees of colour were nominated and so, as ratings fell and the call for diversity mounted , the Academy resorted to radical measures. ‘It’s impossible to be vulnerable’: how Moonlight reflects being a black gay man in the US 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z

Scientists at the Deisseroth Lab at Stanford University have adapted rats' brains to respond to coloured light, allowing them to control the rats' movement. Human behaviour: is it all in the brain – or the mind? 2013-06-29T23:05:40Z

Head said that "unless there is a story reason for a colour, we keep the colours muted." Hollywood Costume – dressing the part 2012-10-12T21:55:14Z

This painting is a pearl of the Rococo style, which its delicate alternation of crisp, even brittle textures and floods of moist colour typifies. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

Don't matter what colour you are, white, black, Asian – they gonna treat you the same. Ghostface Killah: 'Everyone said Wu-Tang Clan wasn't gonna work' 2013-05-10T12:00:00Z

Shapes rhyme, rhythms recur, colours reappear, the strong lines sweep through objects and images with a suave and celebratory force. Thomas Scheibitz – review 2013-07-26T15:00:00Z

“Lighting within the attraction combined with flash photography may distort and misrepresent the colour of our wax figures, which is something our sculptors are unable to account for at the production stage.” Beyoncé’s Wax Figure, Criticized as Too Light, Is Now Absent From Madame Tussauds 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

You have to acknowledge that musical form and find ways of colouring it in; you have to find ways of illustrating that visually. Director Jonathan Kent: Opera's great antihero 2010-07-01T21:01:00Z

‘There’s major problems with the concept of consent - and where are the people of colour?’ Everything that's wrong with humanity': readers on troubling TV shows, from GoT to Buffy 2017-08-04T04:00:00Z

And underlying it all, the vibrant figure of Seema – refusing to be safely contained within a defining discourse – who worries away at Pooja like a brightly coloured shadow in danger of stealing the show. Royal Court's New Plays from India: snapshots of the subcontinent 2012-11-09T14:53:47Z

Looking at a little six-inch-square screen through a piece of tinted, coloured plastic. Clarke Peters’s favourite TV: 'I made so much dollhouse furniture on The Wire' 2016-04-01T04:00:00Z

Blank canvas … Carrington adds minimal colour Drawing extensively on its subjects' diaries and letters, Carrington is certainly an accurate historical movie – but not a particularly revealing one. Carrington: what a carry-on 2010-09-02T08:00:00Z

But it does require some negotiation on his part, given the potential experience gap between white people and people of colour, and the biases and assumptions that attend them. Daniel Kaluuya: ‘I'm not a spokesman. No one’s expected to speak for all white people’ 2018-02-10T05:00:00Z

Of his books, the most famous was his wild Eastern fantasy Vathek which, for its colour, wit and invention, remains a ripely rewarding read. David McKie's top 10 eccentrics in literature 2011-03-02T11:31:07Z

Williams' aqua-musicals were escapist comedies in lush colour, with lavish song and dance numbers and footage of synchronised swimming. Esther Williams, film and swimming star, dies at 91 2013-06-06T18:52:14Z

It's the three colours – red, white and blue; but it's also definitely black, gold and green. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z

Black squiggles race across the surface surrounded by flashes of colour: a beam of yellow, a red parallelogram. Julie Mehretu paints chaos with chaos – from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park 2013-06-20T17:16:00Z

“I want people to be comfortable in their own skin,” she says, “and realise that there is more to life than skin colour.” Pop music’s beauty standard is depressingly narrow and white 2013-09-09T19:52:00Z

His little canvases are filled with abrupt little stripes, X's, little stacks and ziggurats of emphatic brushstrokes, in black and white and zinging colour in different media. Mothers at Hauser & Wirth - review 2011-01-23T18:28:10Z

“Pink was seen as being ‘light red’,” Haller says, “and red was the colour of masculinity – it represented stamina and power.” Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

Marron, a biracial native of Venezuela who grew up in New York, started the video series to figure out why so few people of colour are featured in popular films. Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

“I just feel like I had a lot of colours and they really only wanted three of them. So, they’re into red, orange and green? I’ve got all these other colours but ...” Diane Lane: ‘It’s a relief to be the protagonist instead of the girlfriend’ 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z

With its oddball marriage of boiled sweet colours and transparent plastics, the iMac was certainly eye-catching, and it also sold – two million in the first 12 months. Steve Jobs: iDesigned your life 2011-08-25T13:08:12Z

My look is always bright, I used to dye my hair different colours, I'm into these modern tribal prints – my stuff is from eBay, Sports Direct, Topshop but I dress like this all the time. Glastonbury 2013: best-dressed of the fest – in pictures 2013-07-01T07:00:00Z

She's sticking to the template for these kinds of travelogues: lots of enthusiasm, a checklist of local colour, and a willingness to muck in and look foolish in front of locals. TV highlights 14/05/2013 2013-05-14T06:00:03Z

Soon there are lines of olive green dancers, swirling with all the other colours. Arundhati Roy | Gandhi, but with guns | Part Four 2010-03-27T09:00:00Z

I was sitting there thinking, 'OK, so that's me silent but in colour. Bérénice Bejo: 'The Artist was a gift. But I thought I was really good' 2013-05-25T18:00:02Z

She was brilliant and confident – she refused to use the “coloured” bathrooms, through sheer force of will she got into meetings she was barred from, and put herself forward for work. How history forgot the black women behind Nasa’s space race 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z

This exclusive video trades the bright colours and sense of fun of her former band for moody shots of betting shops, industrial estates and sultry looks from beneath a swept fringe. Music video exclusive: Watch Rose Elinor Dougall's Carry On 2010-08-27T09:54:00Z

This is especially strange given research shows that people of colour, Hispanics in particular, make up a sizable portion of the US cinemagoing public. Why is Hollywood still using 'yellowface' in 2016? 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z

His breakthrough came with freshly coloured and luridly lit genre paintings with one or more half-length figures of imposing scale. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

The more kinds and colours of peppers you can get for this, the better, not least in looks. Yotam Ottolenghi’s pepper recipes 2016-10-08T04:00:00Z

Valdimar colours its music with heavy brass, guitar and keyboard textures. July's best new music from across the MAP 2011-07-18T08:26:00Z

His coloured lines cocoon the gallery, as if he's hungry to contain the world or obliterate it with his mark-making. Exhibition picks of the week 2010-04-23T23:12:00Z

Mesmerism, galvanism, electricity, steam engines, republicanism and commercial cabbage farming all swim into view, but in colours and combinations that you will not quite have seen before. Inconvenient People by Sarah Wise - review 2012-11-09T22:55:02Z

There was a rich seam of advertising to be exploited – but to have impact it had to be in colour. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

Speaking of her ambition for the company with the Guardian last year, she said she hoped it would “shift the pendulum because it’s changing the narrative for people of colour”. Viola Davis set to play Michelle Obama in TV series 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

There’s tingling sensuality and raucous humour amid the sadness, and wild splashes of colour too, as Balagov counterintuitively paints a war-shredded city in vivid pea greens and blazing oranges, frenzied with sound and human bustle. Streaming: the best film of 2019? 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

Instead Ticciati painted his colour gradation in dynamic swells and accents and articulation. SCO/Ticciati ? review 2011-08-23T18:20:01Z

It was February, towards the end of the summer in Antarctica, and the colours were striking. Daniel Beltrá's best photograph: an Antarctic iceberg from above 2013-07-25T08:00:00Z

When I think about my childhood I think of colours. ‘I was given a second chance’: six people describe their life changes 2019-11-03T04:00:00Z

Shortly after the court announced its decision, auctioneers began selling dozens of brilliantly coloured masks made of wood, leather, horsehair and feathers at the Drouot auction house on Friday. Paris auction house sells Hopi masks despite tribe's objection 2013-04-12T16:23:01Z

The importance is that fact that we've established the first colour moving images. World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

The silhouette, cut, fabrics, colours, patterns – in fact the entire appearance of the business suit changes dramatically over time. Do men really care about fashion? 2013-01-12T18:00:01Z

It's like he's Jackson Pollock and you're on the sidelines, mixing his colours. Paul Bettany: 'Lars von Trier simply wouldn't talk to me' 2013-05-30T13:01:15Z

He would then fashion corresponding wax figures "so beautiful that they seemed to be by the hand of the very best sculptor" before painting an oil sketch to test the balance between his colours. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z

He has to play caution and uncertainty: far less dramatic colours on an actor’s palette. Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet on drugs, disillusionment and playing father and son 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

Handel draws each character skilfully, colouring in the emotional states of both individuals and groups with detailed imaginative touches. Esther – review 2013-04-28T14:55:01Z

On the surface, it was all rather lovely – in the restaurant, with its ceiling painted the colours of a sky at sunset, Sylvia enjoyed the music from two alternating bands. Sylvia Plath in New York: 'pain, parties and work' 2013-02-02T14:00:01Z

He sketched some cardinals and blue tits for colour and was just wondering if it wasn't too busy when she asked if he could add some owls. Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy 2013-04-13T20:31:46Z

Especially in the rare instance of a production that was originally in colour. Mad Max: Fury Road in black and white: a fascinating re-evaluation of a groundbreaking film | Luke Buckmaster 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z

Of all arts these are the closest: the 12-note scale is chromatic and with bent notes music, like colour, can produce any gradation you like. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Mix well and when the crumbs rise in a buttery froth, gently agitate and repeat often until the crumbs are coloured gold. 20 best autumn recipes: part 2 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

The subtle contrasts between different colours and textures. Kurt Schwitters: the modernist master in exile 2013-01-06T00:06:24Z

"A lovely building - mad colours" according to the director of Birmingham's Number 9 gallery "The problem is that it was just like a big play centre - it hasn't been handled well from the start." 'It was just like a big play centre' 2013-08-10T02:16:41Z

It got lumped in with the alt-country movement on its release in 1996, probably because of its instrumentation – sparse, acoustic, with colour and shade from the fiddles and steel guitars of country music. Hidden treasures: Scud Mountain Boys – Massachusetts 2013-01-24T10:19:10Z

In the end, I had my haircut, asked the stylist to put on the colour, shoved the foils in a beanie and rocked up to the playground looking ridiculous. 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

Official policy documents, even secret ones, are often coloured by the biases of their drafters, whose aim may be to distort or exaggerate a leader’s preferences in order to promote the interests of a faction. Still in the shadows 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

“The printing is fabulous, it’s a really rich colour, the illustrations are done expertly,” Warrington says. Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Feldman's "indeterminate" music has more in common with the open-ended colour fields of abstract painting than it does with the melodic linear structures of more traditional composers of the time. Exhibitions picks of the week 2010-03-27T00:07:00Z

Several, even in the excellent colour images that lace this volume, look like poor copies of originals. Mr Collier's Letter Racks by Dror Wahrman - review 2012-12-21T22:55:01Z

This divide corresponds to Redon's career, because he only started working with colour when he was over 50. Odilon Redon: Prince du R?ve - review 2011-04-12T13:01:37Z

There was also a land acknowledgment by Maori Indigenous screenplay award-winner Taika Waititi and many of the announcers were white women or people of colour — in a year of a largely white and male nominees. Oscar snub of "Little Women" shows the limits of Hollywood feminism 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

Over 1m households have been evicted a year for over a decade and this disproportionately affects people of colour with black households twice as likely to be evicted than white. John Oliver: coronavirus could turn into 'a full-blown homelessness crisis' 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z

“I said: ‘Look, if the Kuwaitis can say the Iraqis converted their aircraft by putting different colours on the planes, why can’t you say the defendant has converted your cat by changing its collar?’” Claws out! Why cats are causing chaos and controversy across Britain 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

It looks great and presumably tastes awful, the oven tray divided into neat strips of colour, from leathery lean oven bacon to overdone eggs. Click plate: how Instagram is changing the way we eat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

If you look at my company they're all sizes and colours. Cedar Lake ballet's great leap forward 2012-10-09T16:04:05Z

The pilots were rarely the same from rehearsal to rehearsal and the choppers had to be repainted twice a day to change their colours from American back to Filipino. Francis Ford Coppola: 'Apocalypse Now is not an anti-war film' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Unlike much of the more earnest online food world, her photographs are bright, flooded with light and popping with flashes of colour, vibrancy and life. Click plate: how Instagram is changing the way we eat 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z

Exposed to searching closeups throughout, Colin Firth gives the performance of his career as George, and subtle gradations of colour and texture reflect and complement his changing moods. Guardian First Film award: nominations 2010-12-23T22:44:00Z

Maybe it will mean less films that make a big statement about the world we live in, and that aren't scared to nail their colours to the mast. Can 'fake' documentaries still tell the truth? 2010-09-30T22:00:00Z

The architect leads me up to the corridors that wrap around the top of the space, high above all those brightly coloured tables. A skeleton safari at the Royal Veterinary College 2010-12-07T22:00:00Z

For anyone who is really trapped in the past, daddy-o, I am talking here about "" on a computer screen, not making a mess with gooey colours and real brushes. Jim'll Paint It 2013-03-06T13:45:56Z

Joffe's palette is sombre – swathes of black, dark blue and earth colours – against which her women look eerily pale. This week's new exhibitions 2011-03-19T00:06:46Z

Having defined the pictorial grammar of Neo-Plasticism, Mondrian bent the rules, composing variations and taking the idea to minimalist extremes, with a single triangle of colour and two intersecting lines, for instance. Mondrian and De Stijl at the Pompidou Centre, Paris ? review 2011-01-11T14:00:19Z

The colours are those of the two main parties, and the union flag; I wanted it to be punchy. General election 2010: the art of the political poster 2010-04-27T07:00:00Z

He has also turned the plinths in the house's sculpture gallery a bright magenta colour, highlighting the traditional grey marble of the 20 sculptures in the Devonshire Collection which date from the 19th century. Chatsworth House hosts high heels 2014-03-13T11:54:10Z

Nouvel's pavilion is a simple yet striking construction that, on closer inspection, proves to be far more than a brightly coloured sculpture. The new Sepentine pavilion is a rhapsody in red 2010-07-06T20:31:00Z

It's the only time Coldplay hide a lacklustre song in this bath of colour. Coldplay – review 2012-06-02T23:05:27Z

Prismatic and metallic tones: blue, goldand glossy black, are the structural colours.Only the white lacks underlying pigment.The evolution of vivid plumage began withthe struggle to win a mate. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

The colours of the painting, although more than 500 years old, are rich and luminous. What lies beneath 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

“I’ve grown 400 to 500 dahlias to get the colours I like,” she says. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Season the beef and sear for a minute on both sides until coloured but medium-rare inside. Picnic recipes: food to enjoy in the great outdoors 2012-05-18T21:58:05Z

Viewed from a different angle, another worrying aspect of this year’s frontrunners becomes evident: the lack of people of colour. Battle of the sexes: why this year's Oscars will be a gender war 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

Stockhausen's message – that melody, rhythm, harmony and tone colour were all aspects of vibration – held enormous appeal for him. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

She was a smart woman, who saw no difference between these and other popular entertainments, whatever the colour of the stars. Vonetta McGee obituary 2010-07-20T17:08:00Z

The novel begins with news in 2009 of the fatal shooting of a hippo the "colour of black pearls". The Sound of Things falling by Juan Gabriel Vásquez – review 2012-11-16T08:00:07Z

But here, finally, is the evidence that even the most famous colour photographer of all once saw the world around him in monochrome. Memphis greys 2010-12-03T12:22:00Z

The only other species with such a bold colour pattern is the Australian N galgajuga, which has white rather than yellow as its lighter bands of colour. New to Nature No 79: Nactus kunan 2012-08-04T23:05:20Z

Orchestral colours are vivid but never overstated: a real late-20th-century masterpiece. Dutilleux: Correspondances – review 2013-02-10T00:04:05Z

Her eyes are a transitory newborn colour, greyish green, waiting to turn brown. ‘My daughter was raised during the siege of Aleppo. I had to make a film for her’ 2019-08-25T04:00:00Z

On the upside, it was a diverse group, including women, men, people of colour, gay people, straight people, Republicans, Democrats, a former police officer and Vietnam veteran who’d been awarded two Purple Hearts. 'It was quasi-religious': the great self-esteem con 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z

"But it's just one colour, not the whole painting." Skyfall: A Bond aiming to please 2012-10-25T23:54:18Z

What will remain is the sense of clarity and urgency that colours much of Poitras’s work. Summer 2017's best movies: from Scarlett Johansson's hen night to Morrissey's teen years 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z

The colour illustrations help fix the main characters in the reader’s mind; a few more maps might have helped illustrate the ebb and flow of nations. Long they ruled 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

And it’s been great to be invited into a massive franchise, this hugely popular American show, and for my ethnicity and my colour to be a non issue.” How actor Cliff Curtis avoids playing 'repetitive stereotypes' 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z

Yet they are still judged, not only by their surroundings, but by their economic status, what they wear and the colour of their skin. Brotherhood, love and vulnerability: Lanre Malaolu on filming The Circle 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z

We both changed our entire identity, coloured our hair black, did our own makeup and came up with our own outfits – that's why it worked so well. Mika meets Dita Von Teese: 'I've had to work hard to stay like this' 2012-10-11T18:00:02Z

Dickinson is a poet of vivid sight: her work records innumerable sunsets, flowers and bees in glowing, specific colour. Poem of the week: What mystery pervades a well! by Emily Dickinson 2010-10-04T09:21:00Z

Which means losing texture, colour and individuated flavours. Kitchen gadgets review: Nutribullet – the conversational mainstay of fitness bores 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z

Their colours harmonise and they exult in nature. Why Picasso's Joker trumps Van Gogh and Cézanne 2012-07-31T15:29:58Z

Every dab of colour seems to be the result of days of thought and internal argument. Paul Cézanne: founding father of modern art 2013-02-05T14:53:15Z

In a separate and deeper pan, fry 2 peeled and roughly chopped onions in 2 tbsp of oil, letting them colour lightly to a pale gold. Nigel Slater’s lamb, peppers and tortilla recipe 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z

But these effects are neither as visible nor as long-lasting as those of alcohol or caffeinated drinks, “the first use of which can trigger rapid changes in respiration, heartbeat, skin colour and so on”. Is sugar the world’s most popular drug? | Gary Taubes 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

Add the shallots and cook on a medium-high heat for 10 minutes, stirring from time to time, until the shallots have softened and coloured. Welcome to the feast: exclusive recipes from Yotam Ottolenghi's new book 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Before the upcoming 25th season, fans launched a petition demanding a black lead, in addition to casting black, indigenous and people of colour in at least 35% of the contestant roles. US reality show The Bachelor chooses its first black lead 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z

Even so, sonic experimentation coloured every musical reflex. Tony Kushner's Angels in America: the opera 2010-03-22T21:35:00Z

It's all wonderfully deft and attractively coloured, even if it doesn't leave a substantial impression. Prom 18: BBCNOW/Fischer ? review 2011-07-29T11:12:16Z

When Power, Corruption and Lies came out, I put a colour wheel on the back explaining the code. How we made: New Order's Gillian Gilbert and designer Peter Saville on Blue Monday 2013-02-11T17:31:49Z

Everything aspires to the grey-blue colour of drowned meat. London in ruins 2012-07-14T15:00:00Z

To identify yourself either by the colour of your skin or by religion hinders integration. Cultural diversity is a fact. Let's celebrate it together 2010-12-26T00:07:02Z

The problem seemed to be the colour of the shirts she was wearing. 'Why should I have to work on stilts?': the women fighting sexist dress codes 2019-07-11T04:00:00Z

I'd forgotten about Obama's skin colour as well as the notion that it might be a factor in placing him in danger. Nigella Lawson: the best way to end abuse is to shine a light on it 2013-06-22T23:06:08Z

It's just amazing how much colour there is in his ideas. Magical mystery man 2011-06-07T07:09:40Z

Like any good tour, it ends with a big reveal, and the mastery of space, light and colour in the main chapel are a spiritual experience for those of any faith and none. Great modern architecture in Europe: readers’ tips 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z

Seemingly random freeze-frames become highly deliberated formal compositions, buzzing with colour, and aglow with an almost supernatural light. Artist of the week 81: David Korty 2010-04-01T10:22:00Z

For her third film, she says, she's going for more levity: "More colour; a bit more life and movement." The laugh-out-loud nightmares of Joanna Hogg 2011-02-24T22:30:01Z

Lee, of course, was boycotting the event in protest at the lack of nominees of colour. Dustin Hoffman: ‘I was an outsider. I came to New York and I was cleaning toilets’ 2016-03-06T05:00:00Z

This is the only colour bees can't see; it also signified, perhaps, the blood of the martyred Christ. Hive talking: Tomás Libertíny's bee art 2012-07-09T19:31:01Z

Citizens of common class … are prohibited from wearing boots or shoes of satin cloth or ribbons, or of bright colours, or shoes with stilted heels. High heels and their perennial appeal: why pain seems a small price to pay 2012-07-21T14:48:19Z

What probably caught Buckley's eye was the stately nature of the designs and their elaborate colouring. New York officials sue Christie's to regain British architect's drawings 2010-08-12T22:11:00Z

Meanwhile, Tom Jones looks lost, his face slowly becoming the same colour as his big, spinning chair. Have you been watching ... The Voice? 2013-06-07T09:29:00Z

Using the work of French artist Invader – who creates coloured mosaics inspired by the classic Space Invaders game – to distract the kids, this is a fun, family tour that should keep all ages entertained. Top 10 cool city tours around the world: guided walks with a twist 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z

The colour palette is key, whether in the production design or the post-production grade – drawing a rainbow of colours from the actors’ skin itself to create something more vibrant and less concerned with being “real”. It’s lit! How film finally learned how to light black skin 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

It could be a melange of everything and nothing, a case of mixing all the colours and ending up with mud, of serving vague political ideals at the expense of curatorial direction. Museum of the Civilisations of Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) – review 2013-06-08T23:05:15Z

The colour plates on shiny paper were usually covered by protective sheets of tissue paper. The Arabian Nights: a thousand and one illustrations 2011-03-12T00:06:32Z

The Duchess of Cambridge’s fashion choices, including a bright green tunic over white pants to meet with the Prime Minister, appeared to echo many of the colours and outfits worn by Diana. Prince William and wife Kate meet Imran Khan, Pakistan's PM and friend of Diana 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

He invested colour, paint and its application with generosity and richness. Anthony Caro on John Hoyland: 'He was every inch a painter' 2011-08-02T11:08:24Z

She was determined to portray the Hackney she knew, full of life and colour and heat. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

What it reveals is quite the work of art: the nose "could reflect the most improbable lights and colours and allowed objects to shine through in fragments". Kurt Schwitters: the pop art pioneer who brought order to chaos 2013-01-19T09:01:37Z

"What shall we use to show off the magic of the colour photograph?" someone seems to have asked. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

Oscar Wilde chose the occasion of a Grosvenor opening party to make his first sensational appearance in London wearing a custom-designed suit following the contours and colour of a cello. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

When I was little, I just loved these drawings more than the stories - the colours, the fine detail. Sally Gardner's top 10 books for children with dyslexia 2012-10-10T10:17:05Z

Then, after the bleak new year, the wash of colours of Holi, the festival of spring. How we embraced Christmas 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z

He continued: "That's OK, but the colour of my skin is wrong?" White supremacists urge Thor boycott over casting of black actor as Norse god 2010-12-17T11:01:52Z

Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – Filled with the Brilliance of Life: 'It takes colour into more dimensions than the eye can easily cope with.' Yayoi Kusama ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:58Z

At their lowest ebb, an unsympathetic Rio Ferdinand complains about their choice of colour scheme. TV review: Young Apprentice 2012-12-20T21:00:06Z

Nowadays 3D is the brave new frontier for colour grading. Hollywood's new colour craze 2010-08-26T21:30:00Z

Peel and finely slice 4 garlic cloves, then fry in a thin layer of olive oil in a deep frying pan till very lightly coloured. 20 best Mediterranean recipes: part 2 2017-07-04T04:00:00Z

That essential character survives today in descendants such as Glamis Adventure Playground in Shadwell, east London, a riot of skew-whiff woodwork and clashing colours, and an odd hybrid of post-war austerity and postmodern assemblage. Sense of adventure: what happened to playgrounds that give children space 2012-07-03T14:40:54Z

He made scrupulous copies of Delft tiles, scientific diagrams, macabre book illustrations to children's stories and garishly coloured cartoons. Sigmar Polke ? sorry I missed you 2010-06-16T15:10:00Z

The title - Amy-Blue - and the translucent colours used by Dumas point to the singer's musical influences as much to the melancholy of her life. Amy Winehouse painting acquired for National Portrait Gallery 2012-11-26T17:43:25Z

According to Bloom, someone who invests heavily in abstract art and explains that they simply love the shapes and colours is only telling half the story. Why modern art is all in the mind 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

Orchids, humminbirds, the peacock's tail have a beauty of form, pattern and colour that artists struggle to match – and these are abstract designs. Survival of the Beautiful by David Rothenberg - review 2012-02-10T08:59:00Z

In this latest incarnation at Tate Modern, a bit of colour catches your eye, a hovering rectangular frame, a smoky door in the purple void. Tate Modern's rehang cannot diminish the majesty of Mark Rothko 2012-08-22T14:22:27Z

Titman brushed aside concerns that the colouring was placing a single interpretation on Faulkner's multifaceted work. William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury to be published in coloured ink 2012-07-04T15:02:33Z

When the visitor swipes these labels with a handheld reader, a signal is sent to a data projector that plays a pleasing melody with barcode graphics in soothing colours. Do high fashion and art really mix? 2013-06-26T00:40:00Z

Out of the talks emerged the formation of a global group against gender-based violence – “led by women of colour” – called the Big Sister Movement. Nigeria: 20 million women and girls have undergone FGM 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z

There seem no colours left in the world but this bare-earth brown, the snow's white, and the sheen of mirrored sky. 'To a Mountain in Tibet': Colin Thubron's pilgrimage through a land stalled in time 2011-04-13T21:38:03Z

Quirky, curvy and clad in cedar shingles sprinkled with stainless steel sparkles, the building's outside edge is dotted with brightly coloured toilet pods. Birmingham's brilliant new schools – but could they be they last? 2013-01-22T19:00:01Z

When no people of colour were nominated in the main acting categories, many feared the same outcome at the Oscars. What does Hair Love’s Oscar success say about diversity in Hollywood? 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

And the colours, blue, gold, glossy black and white are particularly emphatic. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

Visitors to Barcelona will all sooner or later find themselves in Antoni Gaudí’s fairytale Park Güell, admiring the view of the city from one of the sinuous benches made up of fragments of coloured tiles. Gaudí’s partner in iconic Barcelona design finally gets the limelight 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z

A bright vivid burst of colour, movement and emotion that seals shut that memory forever. Oscars 2012: Nominees' diary 2012-02-26T18:39:40Z

In 2016, no actors of colour were nominated, for the second year running. Did #OscarsSoWhite work? Looking beyond Hollywood's diversity drought 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

Padmore was fully alive to the subtleties of Schumann's word-painting without over-egging anything, giving precedence to the line and using his naturally melancholic tone colour to advantage. Mark Padmore/Andrew West – review 2013-06-14T17:22:01Z

We have read before what it was like to be a Jew in Germany under Hitler, but seldom from a top-class writer who knows how to convey the colour and the texture of permanent fear. Life Between the Lines: A Memoir by John Izbicki – review 2013-02-02T08:00:47Z

In the piano piece, three and four-note figures change in pitch, register and rhythmic inflection, and are often left just hanging in space, colouring the silences between them. Monk Feldman: The Northern Shore; In the Small Time of a Desert Flower – review 2012-07-26T21:05:01Z

We talk in the "taping room", where auditions are filmed; one wall is light blue, apparently the most flattering colour for skin. 'Next!': the secretive world of casting directors 2013-05-21T18:30:01Z

Early on, I began to question the reasons for a such a stark under-representation of people of colour in the field. Q&A: Aaron P Dworkin 2013-05-10T13:15:12Z

His paintings are filled with oblique references and unsettling atmosphere, local colour and characters. The best art exhibitions and events for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:10:01Z

The movement’s raison d’être is to embrace all physical forms, irrespective of build, colour, gender, disability or anything else. No more Mr Muscle: the activists championing body confidence for men 2020-10-25T04:00:00Z

By knocking down walls and layering colour with pattern, texture and art, she’s turned the five-bedroom house into a place to work, relax and socialise. Setting the scene: a home with a dramatic flourish 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z

I'm using colour again now, as opposed to just pencil. Edwyn Collins: Soundtrack of my life 2011-01-23T00:05:48Z

Viola Davis made history as the first woman of colour to to take the prize for outstanding actress in a drama for her role in How to Get Away With Murder. Emmy awards 2015: huge night for HBO as Game of Thrones sets record 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

For all that, one must acknowledge Burton's genius in matters of colour and design. Frankenweenie: Tim Burton is back to what he does best 2012-10-12T23:05:37Z

Another voice then seems to interrupt the explanationss with its question about "other creatures' vision", although the question itself is linked to the earlier statement that some colours are illusions. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

But it also ignores the fact that women of colour were completely involved in the suffragette struggle. Feminist protesters storm red carpet at London premiere of Suffragette 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z

But diffuse or focused, interrupted, projected, coloured or reflected, the light is electric every time and the eye begins to resist this artifice in the end. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z

If Stanfield has made his own luck, he has also benefited from a moment of new possibilities for actors of colour. Is Lakeith Stanfield the coolest actor of 2018? 2018-11-23T05:00:00Z

Lots of coloured lines on a map show they're territorial, which I think I knew. Compare Your Life; Horizon: The Secret Life of the Cat – TV review 2013-06-14T06:28:56Z

Like Stravinksy, Weill and others of his European contemporaries, Ravel was swept up by the new American music of the time: ragtime and jazz, whose vivid colours and rhythms are omnipresent in l'Enfant. Glyndebourne 2012: A musical guide to the Ravel opera double bill 2012-08-16T11:05:51Z

Known for her audacious colour codes, she opted to do almost everything in Hollywood pink, the better to show off David Shrigley’s 239 satirical drawings, which line the restaurant’s walls. La vie en rose: how pink came back into fashion 2016-01-22T05:00:00Z

Plan the shoot Have an idea in advance of how you want your images to look: black & white, colour, available light, flash. Top tips: workplace photography 2010-10-01T14:06:00Z

Bold in its gestures, it uses its large forces to vivid if occasionally relentless effect, with a number of jazzy saxophone solos and bursts of activity for lower brass colouring in the foreground. Prom 4: Orchestra of the RAM & The Juilliard School – review 2012-07-17T10:22:17Z

Photograph: Allstar/Warner Bros Is it political correctness gone mad to insist that every film has an allotted number of people of colour cast in it? How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

To test whether the cheese is ready, gently lift the muslin up by the corners and twist lightly – the liquid should be slightly milky in colour. Anna Jones’s homemade ricotta recipe and three things to cook with it | The modern cook 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

This smouldering gem, embodying Fuchsia's wrath and frustration and her elusive beauty as well as the colour of her clothes and name, is not to be found in any Hatton Garden jeweller's window. Fictional cravings: what are your storybook desires? 2010-03-25T13:30:00Z

I have no idea what it is he sees, but I imagine colours. Floods, fires and a very reggae Christmas: how autism touched my family 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Historians, folklorists and writers chip in with a bit of colour but there's an intimidating 14 and a half hours to get through. TV highlights 21/05/2012 2012-05-20T19:00:08Z

His powerful colour, robust forms and imaginative interpretations humanize familiar narratives in striking ways. It’s the year of Rembrandt again, to the delight of museum audiences 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z

The surrounding landscape will also benefit from the greater colour saturation at these times. Top tips: cars 2011-01-28T18:06:33Z

There are many stories of people cross-dressing not as self-expression, but for practical purposes, just as there are of people of colour passing as white. Rebecca Solnit: if I were a man 2017-08-26T04:00:00Z

A series of slate roof tiles, chiselled out of a quarry in Maine, are each painted a single colour and arranged in combinations across the gallery wall. This week's new exhibitions 2011-04-01T23:06:02Z

Expect warming open fires, antique furniture, romantic art and rich colours. 10 of the best British B&Bs 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

But what is it to portray the dead, with pencil on paper, and to lovingly colour the face of your mother in its new hues of mortality? The deathbed portrait's unique tribute 2010-06-23T21:00:00Z

It had looked like another room of the gallery at first, and you'd drifted into the circular space expecting more vividly coloured paintings of wheat fields and birch woods and simple peasant-folk labouring over ploughs. Jon McGregor We Wave And Call 2011-07-22T22:00:49Z

She owns “loads”, in all the different colours and styles, at about £10 a pair. Heavy flow: are period pants the revolutionary solution to an age old problem? 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

My problem is that, as a student, I saw Kapoor's early work in an exhibition at Kettle's Yard in Cambridge: simple forms decorated with brilliantly coloured pigments. My Anish Kapoor confession 2010-06-10T16:42:00Z

And thanks for adding vibrant colour my adolescent years. Punk icon Poly Styrene dies at 53 2011-04-26T14:21:23Z

I had a “stigma” thing going, being a transwoman of colour, a drug user and a sex worker. The future of sex work – a photo essay 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z

I think people were attracted because it was about colour – and there were no pedestals. Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z

Porter accentuated the colour tones in his prints, deepening the blues and heightening the greens, and making painterly prints of woods, trees, rocks and rivers. Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review 2013-02-03T09:00:03Z

In many ways he adds colour to it: the novelistic approach, again. Young Titan: The Making of Winston Churchill by Michael Shelden – review 2013-03-15T12:02:59Z

If the film had been shot in colour it would be unwatchable, it’s so gory and weird and disturbing, but it’s in black and white and so it becomes a bit more abstract. 50 documentaries you need to see 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z

But she passes her drug tests with flying colours and in Katona terms is in A Good Place. Cable girl: Kerry Katona ? Coming Clean 2010-12-07T08:00:00Z

Hodgkin paints in that British tradition going back to Thomas Gainsborough of aliveness to the colours of nature. Howard Hodgkin 2010-06-28T21:15:00Z

I would like to colour the material with as much visual expression as is necessary for that song. David Bowie on Ziggy Stardust, white funk and other theatrical matters – a classic interview 2012-06-12T15:57:34Z

The traditions of carnival are concentrated into Parabelo, a sensuous group dance lit with richly changing colours. This week's new dance 2010-08-13T23:06:00Z

With a colour spectrum ranging from Spam to candyfloss, Cartland's wardrobe was a magnificent commotion of pink, often accessorised with a small fluffy dog and turquoise eyeshadow. Liberace to Carmen Miranda 2013-06-06T09:58:14Z

Williams is a master of colour and suggestion but what is he suggesting here, given that the two images are separated by a third, black-and-white photograph of a rolled haystack in a field? Deutsche Börse photography prize 2012 – review 2012-07-14T23:06:08Z

There is a hint of colour there, a bit of grainy sepia; but mostly it's dark, and grey, and raining, incessantly. TV review: The Dark: Nature's Nighttime World; Wallander 2012-08-12T21:00:01Z

You'd have trouble describing the murderer, except for those eyes – which are in any case just a couple of dots poked into an empty face the colour of the road. Edvard Munch: a head for horror 2012-06-25T17:30:01Z

But it seemed entirely uninvolved, the range of colour and touch minimal, with moments of rhythmic instability that dissolved bar lines and cut the music adrift. David Fray ? review 2011-07-21T14:31:23Z

You never feel you are battling against a loud orchestra, and can use the full dynamics of your range and explore vocal colours, while at epic moments, you can also really let rip. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Mr Carpenter went back to his paper and I started colouring. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

There's a whole cubic metre of the stuff, and it's not my colour. Fabrice Hyber: but is it fruit? 2013-03-26T18:30:10Z

Christopher Logue wrote this in his poem Know Thy Enemy: “He does not care what colour you are / Provided you work for him.” Spike Lee: 'Race relations today are the direct result of having a black president' 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

One thing we realised with black and white is that you have a lot more latitude for shooting outdoors and matching shots together than you have in colour. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z

The two books, then, displayed the artist in opposite moods. shows a city filled with the colours and shades of autumn and winter. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

They are also utterly beguiling over a dish of parchment-coloured hummus with its pool of verdant oil the colour of grass. 20 best Middle Eastern recipes: part 3 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

We were called the last because we all had different coloured shirts and we couldn't afford any others! Roof climbing with Paul McCartney – a classic interview from the archives 2012-06-18T15:33:47Z

I'm not sure about the colour sensitivity of penguins to be truthful. David Attenborough: 'I wouldn't be prepared to sit on an egg' 2012-11-22T17:00:20Z

It is crenellated like a castle, and painted in a garish but strangely comforting and childlike shade of purple, the way a child might want to decorate it in a colouring book. The 50 top films of 2017 in the US: No 2 The Florida Project 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z

His characteristic canvases, made up of bold grids of vertical and horizontal black lines interspersed with a narrow range of coloured rectangles and squares, influenced generations of artists as well as designers and advertisers. Artist Piet Mondrian in London: the forgotten years 2010-06-25T13:00:00Z

Any watercolour by Eric Ravilious deserves its place here, but this one shows what a world the medium can make in and of itself with transparent colour and a sheet of paper. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

"At the moment," added the organ's tuner, Andrew Scott, "two-thirds of its colours are missing." Wanted: sponsors to restore Royal Festival Hall's organ ? from ?30 a pipe 2010-09-20T15:23:00Z

Needles clack with spools of brightly coloured wool as the knitters talk quietly. Art and minds: hospital trust brings in culture to promote wellbeing 2012-02-08T15:24:00Z

The dining room is painted in a turquoise colour that came from those charts. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

If you want a bright pink, add a tiny bit of food colouring. Trine Hahnemann’s Scandinavian baking recipes 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Uniquely the lucrative prize is open to any genre of writing but chooses a different theme each time; this year's was "colour". Cultural history of camouflage wins Warwick Prize for Writing 2011-03-24T12:34:00Z

By massing colours into abstract blocks rather than striving after mere mimesis, the artist offers a self-conscious commentary on the possibilities and limits of watercolour. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

Except it's not quite so magical: it's also like a battery-operated plastic toy, all whirring noises and flashing colours, of a kind sold by the city's street vendors. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z

In 2014, American Vogue declared the big bum on trend... for white women: as soon as a trend goes mainstream, women of colour are eliminated from the story. Rear view: the big business of bottoms 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z

Make it to the front and the bureaucrats demand to know your place of birth, even your eye colour. And the Girls in Their Sunday Dresses – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-22T17:30:01Z

In the same interview, Davis spoke of the “responsibility of feeling like I am the great black female hope for women of colour”, describing it as “a real professional challenge”. Viola Davis 'regrets' her role in The Help 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

"We did settle on a budget less than it would have been had it been in colour." Cannes comes down to earth with depression-era movie Nebraska 2013-05-23T17:48:51Z

There’s a lot to be said for understated elegance and letting the joy of the day speak for itself, rather than getting crushed beneath the weight of meticulously coordinated colour schemes. Getting married this summer? Stick to a small and simple wedding 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

It is called Synesthesia, the title a reference to the neurological condition whose "sufferers" mix up sensations so that they might hear a colour or smell a sound. New band of the day – Hands (No 1,478) 2013-03-25T16:41:31Z

The exhibition is true to the form and spirit of the original event, with the same light, shape and layout of rooms, connections between very varied artists, and the same attachment to colour and novelty. Sonderbund show recreated 100 years after galvanising Europe's art world 2012-10-02T13:00:29Z

His use of colour saturation that borrowed from advertising, and the odd angles he chose, transformed the everyday into something threatening and unfamiliar. Best art shows of 2012, No 7 – Everything Was Moving at the Barbican 2012-12-13T15:48:04Z

Thus, he not only clarified the sense of the word, but he let every syllable and every note sound together and thereby created a unity of harmony and colours unlike anyone else. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z

While that sounds like a terrible combination, it actually means lots of pussybow blouses, "done" hair and bright colours. From Girls to Veep: US TV's most stylish characters 2013-03-19T19:00:01Z

Everything about that look works: the monochrome colours, the simplicity. Stylist Gabrielle Teare on Glamour of the Gods 2011-07-18T20:46:00Z

"But under certain light conditions they will all look the same - even to people with normal colour vision." Seeing art with different eyes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

The latter sounded as brazenly bombastic as usual, even though Jurowski sifted its instrumental colours. OAE/Jurowski ? review 2011-01-24T18:19:46Z

“Mum gets those tiny Lindt coloured eggs, about 300 of them – more every year – and hides them in tree branches, in the dogs’ ears, drops them on the ground… we never find them all.” Joanna Hogg and Honor Swinton Byrne: ‘We should tell whatever stories we like’ 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

"I watched and listened…," she writes, "bewildered and enthralled as sound and colour filled my empty hospital room." Kristin Hersh 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z

Only the skirt survives of the sumptuous wedding gown, which was described by the Lady's Pictorial as "'the colour like the tassel of Indian corn, the silk shimmering bright like the silk on the cocoon". Vita Sackville-West's erotic verse to her lover emerges from 'intoxicating night' 2013-04-29T20:24:24Z

Flavin softens architecture and tinges air with coloured light, one hue staining the next: the electrical equivalent of watercolour. Light Show – review 2013-02-03T00:05:16Z

Better yet, its spongy interior was plaid, a feat that required intricate geometrical layering of three different coloured cakes. ‘Your cake is on Reddit!’: how one small-town baker's creations went viral 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z

She is abstract art, a construct of colour and couture. My favourite Hitchcock: Marnie 2012-08-13T08:31:07Z

I prefer hiking on the trail in mid- to late- September when it is ablaze with autumn colour, the nights are cool and the biting insects have disappeared. Six of the best US national trails – chosen by experts 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z

There’s a magic belt and some Colour Children, and they’re all in charge of a different colour or something. From Trolls to Transformers: toy films – ranked! 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The 2001 Turner prize-winner wants to cover every single step with a different coloured slice of marble from a different part of the world. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

I'm working from three coloured prints Ray has sourced, each one tonally very different from the other, with one cropping out the asparagus altogether. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z

Every year, she “reinvents the balloons” with a new colour palette, but sometimes she thinks: “Oh my God, how am I gonna redesign another present?” Enduring love: how gen Z saved the greetings card 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

Elsewhere, mirrored "infinity rooms" take these points of colour into more dimensions than the eye can easily cope with. Yayoi Kusama ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:58Z

In the earlier books, military action takes place under a sky "the colour of an old lion's pelt", and rooks caught in the crossfire are dislodged from their "ancestral nests". Rising Blood by James Fleming ? review 2011-07-29T21:56:00Z

Certain arrangements of paint suggest figures or objects, she said, through tacitly agreed conventions – but in the end, all painting is about relationships of colour, shape and line, whether abstract or figurative. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z

There are cubist sets and costumes by Picasso, surrealist costumes from De Chirico, jewel coloured costumes from Matisse, along with contributions from Braque. Diaghilev and the Golden Age of the Ballets Russes 2010-09-23T20:30:00Z

Of course, Meghan is more white-passing than African in appearance, and her good looks and accumulated wealth exclude her from many of the hardships that women of colour face in the UK today. I usually disparage the royals, but Meghan Markle has changed that 2017-10-21T04:00:00Z

Like The Glorious Adventure, the second film Wanger put on at the opera house, The Sleeping Princess would be shot in colour. How Diaghilev's Ballets Russes kept British cinema on its toes 2010-12-22T15:08:50Z

I thought to myself, all children of all colours would be reading the stories. Else Holmelund Minarik obituary 2012-07-19T14:10:50Z

I'd been doing the music as I went along, like a painter pulling colours off a palette. How we made ... Francis Ford Coppola and Stewart Copeland on Rumble Fish 2012-08-13T16:34:00Z

I watch Pablo holding court at a barbecue, filling the gaps between words with superfluous chirrups, like a child colouring right to the edges of the page. Michael Peña: 'I'm not funny. I just point out what's funny in others' 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

“There’s no show on television where the protagonist is a queer person of colour, male or female,” says Waithe. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

The grand horseshoe space, with ornate columns, plasterwork and coloured glass, has been closed to the public since 1969. Michelangelo Sonnets; Hippolyte et Aricie – review 2013-07-06T23:09:04Z

But Boyega seems to have been fazed neither by the size of the film franchise nor by the colour of his skin being a talking point on online message boards. John Boyega: storming from Peckham to galactic fame | Observer profile 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

The fin de siècle vibe was parties, saturated colour, androgynous clothing. 'They called me the antichrist': JT LeRoy, Laura Albert and the literary hoax 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Both Dandridge and Horne wanted that role, but women of colour were not cast as romantic leads in Hollywood at that time. Sex, lies and celluloid: how realistic is Netflix's drama Hollywood? 2020-05-21T04:00:00Z

The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad was Harryhausen's first foray into colour. Ray Harryhausen dies aged 92: master of stop-motion animation 2013-05-07T19:06:34Z

Living in Scotland, you need a bit of colour, especially at this time of the year. Modern life is rubbish! The people whose homes are portals to the past 2021-01-12T05:00:00Z

But the white community doesn't trust him either, always seeing his colour first. Mystery Road - Sydney film festival review 2013-06-06T00:54:00Z

It dominates the action throughout, sometimes alive with light and colour, or, as in the final scene, stripped bare to represent the actress Adriana's renouncement of the greasepaint. Adriana Lecouvreur; Tansy Davies ? review 2010-11-21T00:09:00Z

When it turns out later on that she can change her hair colour by sheer mind-power, grow webbing on her hands and even travel through time, you just have to surrender and enjoy the ride. Lucy: too much wham-bam and not enough ma'am 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

The leading characters in my books are people of colour and will continue to be. ‘America loves the theory that all men are created equal, but doesn’t love the practice’ 2017-08-19T04:00:00Z

As she told Refinery29 a few years ago, “I’m so white. My hair grows out blonde, but my colouring is similar to that of a redhead.” Emma Stone: the whitest Asian person Hollywood could find 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

Turn the heat down slightly once the pastry is set firm and lightly coloured. 20 best autumn recipes: part 1 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Modern a Degas demonstrates his sensual use of the colour red in Combing the Hair. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z

Only 10 other examples of the 1515 charts are known, all in academic or museum collections, and only three with contemporary hand colouring such as these. World's oldest star charts up for auction 2011-03-21T16:33:01Z

There are lab experiments with mice and rats in which epigenetic effects on coat colour and obesity can be inherited. The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:09Z

Above all, food is social: in Barbara Crane’s rawly coloured snapshot of people passing slices of pizza at a party, the sharing is what it’s all about. From Ansel Adams to Stephen Shore: famous photographers shoot their favourite food 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

This week's topic is songs with brilliant opening lines – songs that nail their colours to the mast from the get go and never let up. Readers recommend: Songs with great opening lines 2010-03-26T00:01:00Z

Their skin was tinted a greenish colour lined with scales and oozing scarlet boils, the eyes dark red lost in the depths of their tortured minds. Read the winner of the 247 tale competition 2011-08-29T00:25:55Z

In style, they resemble early work by the masterly war artist Edward Ardizzone: deft lines and colour wash, with an almost comic-like means of vivid narrative, with attention to vernacular detail. Terez?n: music from a Nazi ghetto 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

As Game of Thrones’ only regular female character of colour, the show had a responsibility to not mess her arc up. Game of Thrones has betrayed the women who made it great 2019-05-08T04:00:00Z

This brashly coloured council estate jaunt follows a deluded sad case named "K" who fancies himself as a MC-turned-drug dealer, but lacks the nous to pull it off. The lighter side of youth crime: urban film spoofs 2011-03-10T22:29:00Z

It's a "perspective that harkens back to a classic look, when there were only three networks and when colour TV was new", Ehrlich said. Grammys tips 2012-02-10T11:22:28Z

Clark's 1969 series Civilisation, which told the story of the last 2,000 years through music, literature and art, was one of the first TV documentaries in the UK to be made in colour. Andrew Marr to take on History of the World for BBC 2010-11-22T15:04:00Z

When discussing his own desktop, Tom McCarthy said that "technology colours not only the rhythm but the whole logic of what you write", but I think it's more complicated than that. Jon McGregor: My desktop 2012-06-20T09:06:32Z

This is a fabulous collection, particularly given that all the slides are in colour. Beatles colour photos from 1964 up for auction 2013-01-06T17:43:30Z

For instance, photographs of Gateshead's Baltic, a generous and well-designed arts centre, almost invariably crop out the Baltic Quays flats, designed in a vague approximation of the Baltic's colour scheme. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The baroque curves and nocturnal colours of this painting tear open the curtains of desire. Why Picasso is the apex of art 2013-02-06T15:02:00Z

She is “constantly… in conversation about keeping roles for women and people of colour multifaceted and representative of our true nature”. ‘It's not about your age, it's about your ideas’: the teen power list 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z

It looks exactly like the 80s, with the colours all slightly wrong, the way it is in TV clips from the time. Royal Wedding and Nelson's Hospital: A Time Team Special 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z

When you’ve got a favourite artist, you want to know everything about them, from their favourite colour to what they have for breakfast, and you get that with this Nick Cave documentary. The 30 best films about music, chosen by musicians 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z

Monochrome palettes with punctuated shades of grey were fused with burnt orange, ochre, cornflower blue and fuchsia to create clashing colour blocking effects. London designers celebrate return of grown-up glamour, easy elegance 2014-02-18T20:40:20Z

Realising that his Eastman stock would eventually degrade, Demy made three colour separation masters from the original negative. A little rain must fall: the tragic secret of a musical movie masterpiece 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

And it can only be sustained when people of colour are not just on the cover, but at the table too. Halima Aden – why a model wearing a hijab on the cover of Vogue matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

The curtains of coloured light streaming from the central tower instil a genuine sense of the numinous; yet the imperatives of keeping 300-plus community performers milling among the pillars inevitably leads to some congestion. Chester Mystery Plays – review 2013-07-02T14:36:00Z

The still teal around silver-beached islands, where the far-out horizon is a thin line of barely perceptible colour change. I like pools, and have named ducks in swimming ponds. But the sea heals above all else | Hannah Jane Parkinson 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z

In a gigantic poster made from collaged Xeroxes of a blown-up photo, bunting stretched between two people in a lonely field is the only hit of colour in an otherwise black and white landscape. Artist of the week 196: Amalia Pica 2012-06-28T11:21:53Z

By relentlessly scrutinising the interrelations of form and colour, Fry set down the principles of a proto‑formalism that would become the dominant way of writing art criticism for decades to come. The Books that Shaped Art History – review 2013-04-20T10:00:01Z

Fun is forbidden, colour is absent, hunger is the norm and danger is everywhere. Children's fiction prize book club: Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner 2013-06-28T14:43:33Z

“We now need to tackle some key questions, such as: what colour will the hair be?” she says. The new growth in hair loss research 2019-09-07T04:00:00Z

Black jeans were topped by the colours of LA’s ice-hockey team, the Kings, and the city’s football franchise, the Raiders; both predominantly wore black. How NWA came straight outta Compton and went mainstream 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

Braids of water are turning into a lake the colour of bluebirds. A mountain of happy memories in British Columbia 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

Interiors use white, wood and turquoise accents – the same colour as the sea below. 20 of the best spas in Europe 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

Carol's will be bursting with life and colour and joy. TV review: Life in the Cottage Garden with Carol Klein (BBC2) 2011-01-07T23:45:01Z

I had tried platinum blond and dyeing it back to my natural colour but it came out with a slight green tinge. What I see in the mirror: Nik Kershaw 2012-07-27T21:59:40Z

He adds, however, that the hip-hop biopics are serving an audience that’s not always represented at the multiplex: people of colour. Straight Outta Hollywood: how hip-hop saved the biopic 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Morris' colour techniques brought them into dispute with the Technicolor film lab, who said their material was "faulty". Cinematographer Morris dies aged 98 2014-03-19T12:07:57Z

What has happened, these expert practitioners explained, is that biography has changed its shape, and is now sailing under new colours. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z

Just as Titian used brief, dappled brushstrokes to create a smoke of colour, so Wright deploys fragmentary marks to enchant the light. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

Phew, it's just a regimental flash, the colours of the Household Division. TV review: Harry's Arctic Heroes 2011-08-23T21:10:01Z

Over the course of four series, this blurring of reality has coloured how people respond to them in real life: seeing them as the clubbable Brydon and the prickly Coogan. Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan: 'Work-wise, Steve's terrific. On a personal level, appalling' 2020-02-15T05:00:00Z

These people have extraordinary colours that you are trying to find every day in rehearsal. Anne-Marie Duff: 'I wondered if I should lie about my background' 2013-05-19T05:00:03Z

To these ears, Malik was at the core of that evolution: he was the band’s strongest and most readily identifiable singer, his voice coloured by a little musk and a pinch of salt. Goodbye, Zayn 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z

It will then be clear what is gained by using oil: colour and completeness; brightness and smoothness. The Italian Renaissance drawings at the British Museum show what lies beneath 2010-04-04T20:30:00Z

My guess is that these people are mainly teenagers – those whose experience of cyberspace is coloured by the fact that the first thing they encountered online was . Are the best pictures on Facebook or Flickr? 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

It was really nailing the ABC colours to the mast: this was to be an unapologetically lush and epic album. Easy as ABC 2013-01-21T17:30:01Z

Bake until golden, turning the tray about 180 degrees after 8 minutes to colour it evenly. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 1 2016-05-23T04:00:00Z

He is normally the scourge of art restoration projects, particularly attempts to strip old varnish, believing that precious original detail added by the artists, in overpainting or coloured glazes, is usually lost in the process. Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks restored to original purity 2010-07-14T00:00:00Z

At night, Cotton retrieves the rogue and soon hints of colour are invading the white landscape. White 2010-09-01T20:45:00Z

As we worked, though, the original skin colours came through. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z

While most of the film is shot in black-and-white, the songs are in colour, including the spectacular dance in the hall of mirrors. 10 classics of Indian cinema, decade by decade 2013-07-25T14:47:00Z

And, to Gladstone, the sea and oxen were never of the same colour. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

Again, there were flashes of real engagement, but still no attempt to colour the music in an interesting way, or to conceive anything as a whole. David Fray ? review 2011-07-21T14:31:23Z

While technical details of its genetics and scale patterns provide important confirmation of its status as a separate species, its colouring alone is enough for positive identification. New to Nature No 79: Nactus kunan 2012-08-04T23:05:20Z

Heat the groundnut oil in a wok or sauté pan over a medium-high heat, then fry the onion for five minutes, stirring a few times, until it starts to take on some colour. It's a long story: Yotam Ottolenghi's noodle recipes 2014-07-04T04:00:00Z

The charm and beauty of this painting swept me up with a virtuoso riff of colour and texture when I was given a sneak preview in the conservation department at the National Gallery. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

The colours intensify as you progress through the house. Bold and brave: design in a rental house 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Carmen, produced in 2001, is also shaped like a candelabra, but it is black and decorated with dozens of brightly coloured earrings. Joana Vasconcelos: Versailles - review 2012-07-03T12:00:01Z

When Upstairs, Downstairs was first broadcast on Sunday 10 October 1971, Britain was struggling with decimalisation and that new-fangled trumpery of a gaudy Satan, colour telly. Upstairs Downstairs is back 2010-12-24T08:00:02Z

The man that women are now climbing over each other to work with is a dapper fellow with a cartoonishly wide smile and a neat line in colour co-ordination. Paul Feig: Hollywood's accidental feminist 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

I love his vivid colours, and the fluidity of his lines. Portrait of the artist: Dee Dee Bridgewater, jazz singer 2010-03-29T21:30:00Z

The photographs he collected, or possibly even took, of Blackpool in the 1970s, are extraordinary for their faded colours and sense of the town's hustle and bustle. Mass Photography: Blackpool Through the Camera ? review 2011-07-30T23:05:47Z

When Alberich cursed the gods for robbing him of the ring, for example, Hammond-Stroud was able to combine vocal colour and verbal distortion to convey the scorn and twisted hatred of the character. Derek Hammond-Stroud obituary 2012-05-27T16:09:09Z

Lower the heat, then add the chopped shallot and the sliced garlic to the pan and cook for 8-10 minutes until soft and sweet but without much colour. Nigel Slater’s squid with peppers and linguine recipe 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z

This a family reunion coloured by a Big Tragedy in the past. Film review: Beautiful Kate 2010-07-29T21:44:00Z

While the colour shots took their lead from Van Gogh’s paintings, the black and white sequences were, explains Oliver, influenced by a small number of photographs taken at the turn of the century. 65,000 portraits of the artist: how Van Gogh's life became the world's first fully painted film 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

Although she was a pale, ashen colour and her eyes didn't want to stay focused, she smiled to see me. All about my mother 2013-03-30T09:00:00Z

Twisting Vintage, meanwhile, is a polyester colour explosion of ladies’ wear and accessories from the 60s and 70s in such mint condition it’s more like a fashion museum. Wild swimming, art walks and islands: five car-free day trips from Sydney 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

It was about Madison Avenue in the 1960s, when there were slightly fewer colours in the world but those that there were were, somehow, more vibrant. Rewind TV: Mad Men; Thatcher coverage; Off Their Rockers – review 2013-04-13T21:45:01Z

So-called character actors usually have supporting roles, which means that you have less colours on the palette to paint a three-dimensional character. At last action hero 2012-08-10T23:05:00Z

Its range of affordable sketchbooks, coloured pens and stationery with neutral colours might be less intimidating than the gorgeous, but scarily pristine, pages of a brand new Moleskine sketchbook. Drawn to success: how to bring out your inner artist 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Textures were not, nor was colour, as the Clore Gallery curators discovered. Does Stirling work? 2011-04-01T23:05:23Z

If somebody presented me with a wig on a stand, a brush and hair colour, I’d fly at it. Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

I'd read the book beforehand so seeing it on a big screen in colour was fascinating and something I'll never forget. Thunderbirds guru Anderson dies 2012-12-27T09:57:48Z

Historically, comedy has always been a boys’ club in which women of colour have faced lazy stereotyping and struggled to demonstrate demand for their work to white bookers. ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

And Barbie now comes in various body shapes and colours, as an extensive marketing campaign will tell you. Former Spice Girl Geri​: ‘I like myself a bit better now’ 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

“That’s also something that I appreciate within the film – just placing these young women of colour in these spaces and saying: ‘You belong here and you can succeed here.’” Issa Rae: ‘I’ve not started writing season four of Insecure yet’ 2019-04-13T04:00:00Z

Benjamin Britten only choreographed one ballet score, but the evocative colours and textures of his concert music are much loved by choreographers. The best dance for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:40:01Z

Wisdom continued ploughing this field until well into his 50s; but the passage of time and the introduction of colour film stock meant his youthful act ran into problems now he looked inescapably middle-aged. Norman Wisdom - a life in clips 2010-10-04T22:55:00Z

With flower garlands and coloured drapes, London's Leicester Square was decorated to resemble a set from the Indian-based film. Marigold sequel gets royal approval 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

His readiness to turn anything at all into a brightly coloured Warhol print for the art market soon separated my visual and emotional responses. Andy Warhol: the case against 2012-06-20T13:52:49Z

Renoir, who believed and said that black did not exist, that all shadows had a colour, apparently succeeded a painter who loved the knife-edge contrasts of black. Manet's portraits: the artist on the knife-edge of photography 2013-01-12T09:01:01Z

Coming from two composers so sensitive to the subtleties of instrumental colour, they must have both been right, but it was Takemitsu's music that made the stronger impression on me. A guide to Toru Takemitsu's music 2013-02-11T17:12:00Z

Add the onion, carrot, leek, celery and garlic to the pan and cook for 3-4 minutes, or until light golden in colour. The 20 best Italian recipes: part 4 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z

The museum floors are a partnership with the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia and showcase contemporary First Nations art, flanked by custom-designed hemlock and cedar furniture and muted forest colours. Top 10 hotels in Vancouver 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z

I really liked how every single inch of paper was filled with colour. 'Nutmeg says Yum!' by Caroline Jayne Church - review 2012-06-23T11:00:00Z

Just as oranges are not the only fruit, white is not the only hue in this playful show that not only introduces the concept of colour, but also that of change and transformation. White 2010-09-01T20:45:00Z

From one life to another flows The charge that gives the future shape, Its colour to the grass or rose, The bloom upon the grape. The Saturday poem: Ruby 2010-05-07T23:14:00Z

By contrast, the cheerful borrowers, in their home beneath the floorboards, built from outsize bobbins and matchboxes, are bright with colour. The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd 2012-12-23T00:04:15Z

Why are you wearing a dress the colour of aged pigeon? Oscars 2013: 10 things we learned on the night 2013-02-25T16:00:56Z

Even Hollywood seemed to recognise this; from 1939 to 1967, there were separate Academy Awards for colour cinematography and black-and-white cinematography. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Dreamlike passages coloured by Beethoven's new fascination with the sustaining pedal led into spikily precise episodes in which Schiff's arms went up and down like the hammers inside the piano. Andras Schiff – review 2013-03-05T18:18:27Z

This was the era of the showboat dinner party, where the upwardly mobile British family would invite peers and colleagues into their homes in a bid to wow them via high-voltage, brightly coloured three-course extravaganzas. 70s dinner party food: If only we’d had Instagram back then 2016-11-13T05:00:00Z

The tone colours were vivid on Morton's New Orleans Bump and Ellington's The Mooche, both focusing on the leader's eloquent talking-horn wah-wah technique, and the thrilling Morton innovation of the soaring clarinet choir. Wynton Marsalis 2010-06-20T21:16:00Z

Deep-fry the ribs, in batches, until they darken slightly in colour. 20 best Chinese recipes: part 3 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

With their brightly coloured tassels and woven bridles, our team of 10 llamas makes a fabulous sight as they stream ahead of us. Peru: take the high road to Inca glory 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z

Like Proust, he seems to pick over the past in search of its essence, tackled through lush colour and a storm of brush marks. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

It gets them colouring in scenes and characters from the iconic Dr Seuss books, with digital stickers and a virtual glitter cannon thrown in. The 50 best apps for children 2012-08-04T16:24:08Z

As one of the few people of colour in a very white area of Sunderland, Bindy Galsinh tells me she often felt isolated, forced to grapple with her father’s alcoholism alone. 'The smell of booze was part of the fabric of my childhood': the hidden victims of alcoholism 2019-01-26T05:00:00Z

And the key to my personality and consciousness was hidden somewhere in the coloured tangle of lines that emerged from the Connectom scanner. My life as a guinea pig for science 2013-07-27T23:05:16Z

Indeed, the use of extended playing techniques from all members of the ensemble was a notable feature throughout, giving the piece striking atmospherics and colour. LA Philharmonic New Music Group/Dudamel/Adams – review 2013-03-15T17:33:23Z

“I think going forward, it’s going to be hard to at least not consider women and people of colour,” says Riley. Goddesses of the galaxy: women directors take over the blockbuster universe 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

Visitors to the exhibition may be surprised to see that they are actually a deep winey garnet colour, designed to photograph as scarlet in Technicolor. Dorothy's ruby slippers step out from US for first time for V&A exhibition 2012-10-04T12:01:01Z

The delivery was very slow and the wig was the wrong colour and the wrong style. ‘I bought 16kg of flour by mistake’: online shopping mishaps in lockdown 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z

Valentine's greeting consists of a rebuke for his incompetence as an antiques dealer: he has foolishly left some coloured prints in an unwanted jar which he had given away to another dealer. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z

"Wanting to be understood by an audience that didn't know Russian, I tried to paint musical pictures by emphasising the phrasing, using voice colour more boldly, and varying the shade and nuance," she wrote. Galina Vishnevskaya obituary 2012-12-11T18:32:40Z

Let the meat colour on the underside, then turn and brown the other sides. Nigel Slater’s roast lamb with anchovy butter recipe 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

It follows a short-lived controversy last week which saw Cumberbatch criticised for using the term "coloured" in an interview on US television. Stars gather as Baftas get under way 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z

It shows the pain and struggle of her life but it is also bound up in colour and sequins and gleaming gold and silver threads. How I looked for clues to my sister’s inner world in her art 2017-07-01T04:00:00Z

But, for the record, the cooking instructions do advise you to grill or bake these, which may help explain why their tough, stringy cases took on comparatively little colour in the pan. Supermarket sausages: taste test 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

He also believes many old master artists never intended their paintings to be seen in bright colours, and added their own toning layers of darker varnish. Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin of the Rocks restored to original purity 2010-07-14T00:00:00Z

A fabulous spectrum of autumnal coloured leaves - burnt russet, orange, mustard and lime green - form a wonderful deep carpet around this perfectly inclined bench. Autumn colours competition winner 2010-12-17T17:00:05Z

"I've been watching the Empire State Building change colour," he says, gazing dreamily out of the window, as I arrive in the room the record company has booked for the afternoon. 'I'm often at a loss for words' 2011-03-06T00:02:02Z

His experiments with sunlight and glass prisms and mirrors helped him understand the origin of colours and create a new kind of telescope. Magician’s brain 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

They come in different shapes and colours, from pale pink to black. Clitbait: 10 things you didn't know about the clitoris 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z

Two of us would go up to the roof and wave to him with our red cloths – the most visible colour – while the third would be downstairs talking to him via satellite. Family life 2012-06-22T23:05:19Z

It's quite silly, and at times frankly baffling, but for all its colour, the production can't get around the fact that the opera is a largely static affair. Montezuma 2010-08-15T21:01:00Z

He drew coloured abstract images, cut them up and projected them on to luminous screens using randomising software. Surrender. It's Brian Eno 2010-04-28T20:35:00Z

But the briefest glimpse of it in colour photographs, the sky illuminated by streaks of electricity drawn to the vast field of attracting rods, communicates so much, so eloquently. Farewell, Walter de Maria 2013-07-29T16:19:50Z

Here Da Ponte shows us real people in real situations, attempting – as he said – 'to paint faithfully and in full colour the diverse passions that are aroused'. Nozze di Figaro: The revolution in action 2013-07-10T14:55:47Z

Matteo Garrone's Reality is a satire on reality television Fireworks flash over Cannes at night, colouring the clouds and scaring the seagulls. Cannes 2012 diary: day three 2012-05-18T14:59:42Z

Yellows, oranges and fuschias, in particular, look incredible against darker skin tones, and I’m always partial to a bit of colour blocking. My toxic love affair with skin lightening creams 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

The narrative seems like a pencil sketch, in that we see living movement and shape, but not the colour of blood or the glisten of guts. Poem of the week: The God of Love by George MacBeth 2010-06-07T14:18:00Z

There is no toxicity, only women swapping tips on how to dye the dress different colours, or sharing images of themselves beaming in identical outfits. The story of The Dress: how a £40 Zara frock stole the summer 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

Even if the ratio of monochrome to colour releases will never get back to 50:50, black and white is here to stay, in one way or another. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

All the scenes, even this one, have a painterly quality, and an alertness to colour and contrast that makes it hard to believe Whittier was, as reported, colour blind. Poem of the week: Telling the Bees by John Greenleaf Whittier 2012-06-11T16:30:08Z

There's a winding accessible path, seating areas, flowers to jog memories, stone tablets inscribed with key dates, even a bed planted in the colours of Watford football club, which is where they met. Love Your Garden: TV review 2013-06-26T06:00:10Z

To my delight, she then opened a professional makeup case, revealing a 10-year-old’s dream array of coloured, glittery eye shadows, sparkling blushes and lipsticks. Experience: I was painted by Andy Warhol 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z

Last year Taylor Lautner revealed his true colours in The Twilight Saga: New Moon, assisted by CGI effects that instantaneously transformed the teenage hunk into a Lupine beast. 2010-02-09T09:57:00Z

It exuded the popular streamline styling of the day, with an endless catalogue of exotic patterns, bright colours and woodgrain effects. Formica turns 100 2013-01-17T10:18:40Z

Season the beef with the salt, wine and soy sauce, then deep-fry, in batches, until it just changes colour. 20 best Chinese recipes: part 3 2016-05-04T04:00:00Z

It's hard to imagine any of these films working better in colour. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z

His silky mane curled about his neck in waves the colour of buttercups. Animal passions: David Sedaris's modern fables 2010-10-02T23:06:00Z

Like forms of speaking, coloured glass, stone, paint,that made a distant world inside the skull,and trekked the dark places of it, his facesometimes an African's, his truths made truthfuldifferently. You by John Haynes 2011-01-24T10:59:38Z

Karabits's interpretation was taut, mercurial and sharply focused, with a subtle sense of dynamic gradation and a telling but discreet emphasis on Tchaikovsky's shifting instrumental colours. RPO/Karabits – review 2013-03-21T18:17:23Z

For example, was She-Ra just a brightly coloured gateway drug into full-blown feminism? Why I love Sarah Jessica Parker 2016-09-24T04:00:00Z

Many scientists saw bright flashes of colour in the dark. Dancing in the Cern library – let's get physical 2012-07-16T18:31:00Z

His installation, the aptly-titled Tropical Cluster No. 1 is, he says, "my way to bring a real feeling of colour and happiness from my city Rio and my country". Brazilian artists invade London 2012-07-12T06:42:15Z

No less surprising is another work, from 1953, this time involving thick board, etched with a gouge then enhanced with colours that run into the incisions. Mir?'s paintings are expressions of astonishment and joy 2010-08-24T12:59:00Z

What do you see when you look at packages of shampoo in all these colours? Anne Rice: 'I thought the church was flat-out immoral' 2010-10-24T19:59:00Z

Jasper said the treatment of Reed was a just an example of discrimination that people of colour face when they find themselves involved with mental health services. Sarah Reed wrote to family 'she had been sexually assaulted' in hospital 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z

Equally creepy was the arm's colour, which was not Caucasian flesh tone but not brown either, the way most desiccated body parts are. Getting stuffed: a tale of love and taxidermy 2013-04-13T20:31:46Z

For the second time in two days, I thank God the vivid red Italian aperitif is no longer coloured with beetle extract. Felicity Cloake: my week as a vegan 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

During her performance she changed her light coloured dress for a red corset. In pics: American Music Awards 2012-11-19T07:51:21Z

Harriet brings us the news that this is even more the case if they are women of colour. No politics please, we're Oscar contenders 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

"If you look at it as an exhibition, there is a lot of radiance and luminosity and jewel-like colours," she say. Britain Creates: when fashion and art collide 2012-06-26T20:00:01Z

People were cleaning – for which read ruining – the marbles, having become obsessed with the idea that white was their perfect colour. TV review: A History of Art in Three Colours 2012-08-08T21:00:04Z

She was the only pupil of colour, barred from a photo, she says, because she wore braids. Thandie Newton: ‘I wake up angry – there’s a lot to be angry about’ 2016-09-04T04:00:00Z

Her marriage to a white Texan, Justin Crosby, is there too, with their difference in colour, in family background. The Nigerian artist who is exploding the myth of the ‘authentic African experience’​ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

Cars are always the wrong colour don't you think? Patrick Keiller on London: read the original interview 2012-11-30T15:00:00Z

But Scott Thomas, prowling round Mark Thompson's circular stage in front of the palace at Mycenae, lends the role colour and variety. Kristin Scott Thomas electrifies critics 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Although it is self-evident that a child's skin colour is not important, the iconography of the innocent child was traditionally represented by 'white' children. Ruud van Empel's strange creations 2013-03-20T12:17:00Z

The mystery of Elephant's missing pants leads to a pants parade on the ark, with pants of every size and colour to fit an array of friendly looking animals. Elephant Pants by Smriti Prasadam-Halls - review 2012-07-19T11:00:00Z

Other distilled movies include Noah and Into the Woods, which cut to black almost as soon as they start, indicating there are no lines spoken by people of colour. Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

There’s an array of colours and astounding views as you drive the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Foothills Parkway, or Highway 441. Where to see spectacular autumn colours around the world: our readers’ tips 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

The book is full of photographs, doodles, colour text, blank pages and a 15-page flick book. Jim Bob's top 10 illustrated books for adults 2010-05-05T10:32:00Z

Visually, the shore is an unfixed, liquid place, spray and mist and the dance of colour encouraging sightings of unknown creatures, phantoms, paradisal realms and other healthy challenges to the rock of reason. The Fabled Coast by Sophia Kingshill and Jennifer Westwood - review 2012-08-03T21:55:09Z

The documentary also adds important context not only with regards to the dangers faced by women in the music industry but the difficulty many women of colour face coming forward. On the Record: the music industry #MeToo doc that caused Oprah to turn away 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z

You have to remember, 80% of this country is either female, people of colour or young adults between the ages of 18 and 35. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

Lemmy is from a period where you nailed your colours to the mast with what music you liked and how you dressed. Readers' reviews 2011-01-13T22:17:00Z

The skin of the squash retains its beautiful, vibrant colour and is thin enough not to need peeling. 20 best autumn recipes: part 1 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

Obviously, hobbits are not brown or black or any other colour. The hobbit race row raises a big question: can a one-legged man play Tarzan? 2010-12-05T22:30:00Z

But from the point at which Richard and his hunting chums show their true misogynistic colours, realism is no longer on Revenge’s menu. How the 'rape-revenge movie' became a feminist weapon for the #MeToo generation 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

“The early stages of learning to see colour and basic forms happen relatively quickly,” says Alex Wade, professor of psychology at the University of York, and an expert in visual processes. The vision thing: how babies colour in the world 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

But equally magnificent, and unexpectedly grand, is Andy Warhol's vast Vesuvius, in which the mountain is erupting in lighting-strike lines and explosions of irradiated colour that clash and repercuss. Volcanic splash 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

I was the hired hand to come in and overdub and put some colour on the tracks. John Cale: 'I don't want to end up in Pseud's Corner' 2012-09-26T08:50:35Z

He's come up with something quite unforgettable in its fauve use of colour. Footballers draw self portraits to raise money for charity 2010-04-08T23:05:00Z

And while the queasy colours and ghoulish forms suggest that, if figurative art isn't quite dead, it is certainly unwell, Van Lankveld's spontaneity and black humour are disarming. Artist of the week 91: Rezi van Lankveld 2010-06-10T09:53:00Z

“It wasn’t made for him! I want to know what it meant to women of colour, biracial women, to teen women of colour.” Ocean's 8 stars blame dominance of male critics for film's mixed reviews 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps not surprising that they might tie their colours to more than one style, but with their pop sensibilities still visible, this is good fun. Readers recommend: Songs about South America 2010-06-17T23:01:00Z

Ashley jokes: “I finally get here, and now they’re just laying it all out. There are women of colour all over television – who just popped out.” ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

As a woman you are judged by the colour of your skin from birth. Shades of Black: how readers responded to our series on the colorism taboo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

The colour is good but the lines are all going in the wrong directions, somehow, making it an unflattering shape. Oscars 2011: Fashion royalty 2011-02-28T17:10:00Z

As the technician drew a tube of blood from her vein, he looked closely at the blood's colour, obviously intrigued. Cancer: The new normal? 2011-01-17T17:35:24Z

We were all greeted, and the children were given stickers and an activity pack including colouring, a torch and our granddaughter's favourite – weaving. Family-friendly museums for half-term 2011-02-15T14:18:00Z

"It is extraordinary how vivid the colours are and the level of detail are." The Secret Art of the Silk Road 2013-10-23T09:17:27Z

But the colour is not just an aesthetic identity. Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

At the beginning of this journey, some believed that the talent is not inherent in the communities of colour, relative to classical music. Q&A: Aaron P Dworkin 2013-05-10T13:15:12Z

That unrealness was amplified when he embraced colour photography in the late 1930s. Eliot Porter: In the Realm of Nature by Paul Martineau – review 2013-02-03T09:00:03Z

The whole wood began to change colour, the trunks slicking to slate grey, next year's beech-buds glistening like glazed fruit. The unpredictable power of nature 2013-02-15T18:01:01Z

"I believe that the colour of your skin, the size of your bank balance and the town where you live should not be a barrier to participation and progress," said Mr Javid. Minister urges 'culture for all' 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z

This is how Palmer, now in his 70s, talks: in perfectly paced anecdotes, full of colour, character, drama, insight, action – and of course stars, generally the biggest stars of all. Tony Palmer: he's with the band 2013-07-28T18:00:00Z

It's a bit like standing in the middle of some giant Meccano creation, right down to the vibrant colour palette. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z

Also more beautiful still, a splash of colour and fire in an icy monochrome emptiness. The Returned; Terror in The Skies; Operation Snow Tiger – TV review 2013-06-10T06:00:22Z

The sky is a vast canvas,Peppered with scarlet paint,The colour of autumn leaves,Announcing the approaching nightfall. Your stories: Sunset by Tigerwatcher - poem 2013-06-13T08:00:00Z

Jonathan Wright Debut of a three-part series by Dr James Fox, seeking to distil our relationship with art down to our understanding of three colours. TV highlights 25/07/2012 2012-07-24T19:30:01Z

As I grew more comfortable in my skin, I started experimenting with brighter colours and bolder patterns in fashion. My toxic love affair with skin lightening creams 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z

My strength is a more psychological investigation using vocal colour. Sarah Connolly: from triumph to tragedy 2013-06-21T12:01:00Z

It was remade in colour for the BBC in the 1970s. Bagpuss co-creator gets Bafta honour 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

Because, as she puts it, women and people of colour are – and until they are treated as equals will remain – political by virtue of their very existence. Jena Friedman: the outrageous talkshow host women have been waiting for 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z

These days the grid-like elaboration of Hugonin's large canvases tends to be filled in with relatively saturated colour, yet the aesthetic amazement remains. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

Code-switching – that capacity to alter your behaviour according to the company you’re in – is something that people of colour are especially familiar with, she continues. The Hate U Give's Amandla Stenberg: ‘Our generation is upending Hollywood’ 2018-10-19T04:00:00Z

Bake for 40-50 minutes until the tomatoes have shrunk a little and coloured slightly. Peter Gordon's six delicious salad recipes 2016-03-20T04:00:00Z

But these are more than just splashes of colour: this is a garden that unfolds its melody in great gestures and allows you to peer up close at its drama. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

I feel the colour in my cheeks rising again. Vampires, blood and chastity: how Twilight turned teens on | Eva Wiseman 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z

She chose her colours and cared a great deal about fashion. Salvador Dalí portrait of Mona Bismarck up for auction at Sotheby's 2013-01-27T18:00:03Z

It is good, though: dark in colour, with some surprising harmonies, feisty strings, stately outer movements and a silvery, lyrical slow movement. La Serenissima ? review 2011-01-27T21:45:01Z

Roasting radishes turns them into something new – it mellows their punch, and they turn the most beautiful cerise colour. Summer vegetarian recipes 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z

We believe it's important to serve music news and downloads with an opinion, with distinct tone and colour. Blog jam: Mostly Junk Food 2013-03-06T12:54:05Z

There are Minis in every possible colour and style. 'I lie to my health visitor. I lie to myself': the truth about postnatal depression 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

You'd have to go to three different spots to pick up directions, people would express themselves with loud colours, DJs would play crazy beats. will.i.am: 'The Queen reminds me of my grandma' 2012-06-28T19:30:00Z

Once she decided to launch her own line, manufacturers told her the rules: plus-size women want only dark colours; they don’t like patterns; they never wear sleeves. Melissa McCarthy: ‘I love a woman who doesn't play by the rules’ 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

Spirited Away is a film of amazing colour, action and detail. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

Catch it as the sun is descending in the late afternoon and you’ll be amazed at the vibrancy of the colours as the leaves are framed by the light from the setting sun. Where to see spectacular autumn colours around the world: our readers’ tips 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Only the pastel tones of Kate Bonney's lighting scheme match her for colour. Hello, Dolly! – review 2013-07-01T12:54:10Z

Touch the screen to see a new coloured shape. This week's new games 2010-07-23T23:06:00Z

Dressed like 30s schoolchildren, in brightly coloured frocks and leggings, the company use high metal walkways, a tall transparent tower and a huge swinging grid to tell silent stories of isolation and co-operation. No Quarter; The Silence of the Sea; Not Until We Are Lost – review 2013-01-20T00:06:10Z

But the use of colour and framing is absolutely extraordinary. Seijun Suzuki: can Japan's cult master cross over? 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z

And look at the colours: gun-metal grey, burnished steel, a dark bronze sheen. Diving with the shark attack survivor who filmed Jaws 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

The conversation shouldn't have been about white people feeling uncomfortable but centred on identifying the patterns of racism which feed how we are socialized into a hierarchy of skin colour. "Y’all are coming at this like we’re racists": how "Survivor" highlights the pulse of socialization 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z

The way that we viewed politicians and the world was massively coloured by the weeks leading up to that conflict. Keira Knightley: ‘Iraq was the first time I’d been politically engaged’ 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z

Over the course of a day, 8 Spruce Street changes mood and colour with the sun and the sky. Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights 2011-07-05T20:30:03Z

The colour poster is one of the earliest surviving images of the iconic character, created by Walt Disney. Early Mickey Mouse poster sold 2012-11-30T09:12:57Z

"It offers you so many facets, from colour to expressiveness within the line itself." Lawrence Durrell and Peggy Glanville-Hicks: a song for Sappho 2012-08-22T18:31:01Z

And in 2004, we were still all capable of being gobsmacked by the delirious technological achievements in perspective, light and colour. Every Pixar film ever made - Ranked! 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

With their typically stripped-down textures, brisk tempi and bright, incisive orchestral colours, the performances promise to be exhilarating. Northern Sinfonia/Zehetmair – review 2012-10-01T17:18:24Z

“Light and bright can start feeling chilly with all the glass, mirror and pale colours,” says Robinson. Let there be light: 10 simple ways to brighten your home – from pale pink walls to changing bulbs 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

But he added that other elements of the the work, with its bright colours lathered roughly on the canvas, was typical of Van Gogh's style at the time he was living in Paris. Rediscovered Van Gogh exhibited 2010-02-25T10:44:00Z

“I wear a colour based on my mood,” he said through a green mask. Lebanese designers fight coronavirus with fashion face masks 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z

There is even a Magritte sight gag in the majestically beautiful Dining Recess, a bright light dangling in a darkened room; or rather, a disc of warm white colour that illuminates nothing around it. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

"The way that the colours are put together, in a new clashing, colour-blocking with all these unexpected colours together is interesting," she said. London designers celebrate return of grown-up glamour, easy elegance 2014-02-18T20:40:20Z

I’m more into varied and unusual colour and textural combinations and layers. Interiors: tricks of the trade 2015-12-06T05:00:00Z

“The word means white man, but it describes not a skin colour but a tendency.” Review | ‘The Old Drift’ is a brilliant literary response to generations of bad politics 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Although the colours are a bit dull the illustrations are wonderfully detailed and help explain this simple but ever so sweet story beautifully. Ernest and Celestine by Gabrielle Vincent - review 2012-12-14T12:00:00Z

The term RCA Black refers to the artists rather than their subject matter: the work doesn't have to speak of race, skin colour or ethnicity. RCA Black and the table that thinks it's a woman 2011-08-23T20:59:01Z

In June, the body invited an unprecedented number of new members to join its ranks, 46% of whom were women and 41% people of colour. Academy member, 91, threatens to sue if Oscar voting privileges withdrawn 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z

It somehow runs counter to the abiding spirit of Almodóvar’s work, which has always been about noise, colour, incident; the rub and thrust of bodies in close quarters. Pedro Almodóvar: ‘I can no longer hide’ 2019-08-11T04:00:00Z

What I saw growing up were those colours, when there was colour. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

Its dust is the colour of strong char.Lower, and roads criss cross in grids, run Straight and true, hold too fast to purpose,Are thin experiments in meaning. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z

Fry for a minute or so, until the garlic is starting to colour, then add the chard stalks and sizzle for 1-2 minutes. Anna Jones’s homemade ricotta recipe and three things to cook with it | The modern cook 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z

It is the exact same colour as his wheelbarrow, his garden fence and his Austin van, which he used in his job as a plumber. Family life 2010-03-20T00:07:00Z

In fact, 80% of films released in the early 1920s were in some form of colour – either early Technicolor, or tinted, or toned. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

This show spans six decades and also features Bohm's colour photography and a recreation of her studio. Dennis Hopper: actor, director and ? yes ? brilliant photographer 2010-04-28T12:17:00Z

The luxurious fabrics these people wear, in colours as evocative as perfume, are another Asian commodity beloved by Europe. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

Soon after we meet, gal-dem will launch Rewriting The Canon, a literary course in conjunction with the London department store Liberty, repositioning writers of colour, whose legacy is so often overlooked. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

Their eye-catching demos included setting off confetti bombs at a Portsmouth council meeting and colouring the Trafalgar Square fountains red. Ten feminist protests that would make great films - and what we can learn from them 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z

For Van Gogh "my brush goes between my fingers as a bow would on a violin" and Scriabin employed a colour keyboard to add spectral harmonies to his works. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

While many drinks bottles are made of easily recyclable PET, some brands add plastic sleeves or colour the bottles, reducing their recyclability. From sea to plate: how plastic got into our fish 2017-02-14T05:00:00Z

As Stuff Matters tells us: "The invention of drinking glasses meant that the colour, transparency and clarity of their wine became important too." Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik – review 2013-06-17T08:01:04Z

As they move in a choreographed routine across the hillside, their lights change colour and flicker. Tripping the light fantastic 2012-08-10T14:36:18Z

In 1967, the government decided that BBC Two would become the first channel to switch to colour, and he set about exploiting this advantage. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

But when I discovered the beauty of banality, I was able to capture Belgium in colour. Harry Gruyaert's best photograph – waiting for a Belgian parade 2012-11-14T16:11:14Z

The first episode of web series Challenge The Obvious sees two Dutch artists try to bring colour to the impoverished of Philly and Rio. Populist: Items of interest this week 2012-09-28T23:05:00Z

It opened in a meat-packing warehouse, iron and a raw arterial scarlet dominating the colour scheme. Stefanos Lazaridis obituary 2010-05-16T17:48:00Z

Skin type, hair and eye colour and freckles were also recorded for the research. More than 11 moles on right arm 'could indicate greater skin cancer risk' 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

It was a life drawn in bold colours and lived vibrantly to the end. Tom Sharpe: a relentless writer 2013-06-06T11:13:17Z

Abbey shows me her sketch book, containing silhouettes of a boat and a page of perfectly spherical doughnuts, shaded with coloured pencil. ‘I’m a human calculator’: what’s it like to be a child genius – or to raise one? 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z

I chose a box of coloured pencils at first because I'd got art homework to do but Mr Carpenter told me to choose something else. The Second Prize by George Layton - short story 2012-11-16T09:00:00Z

It’s the first time Watts’ colour rises a touch. Naomi Watts: ‘My soul was being destroyed’ 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z

The evening's first half, if rather curiously programmed, displayed his fierce energy and fine sense of colour and dynamics. RLPO/Rivas ? review 2012-05-18T16:42:08Z

And we were trying to sell it to people who had known Jobs or had been in business with him and were coloured by that. Steve Jobs: the afterlife 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z

He stomps on the head, but it still twitches, so he beats it with his stick, smashing, till it changes colour, loses its stripes. Extract: The Whales by Evie Wyld 2010-09-06T13:47:00Z

She grew up with the burden of her mother's sorrow, and isolated through colour. Josie Miller 2010-04-29T17:38:00Z

The second time we talk, it is a shorter chestnut colour. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

The nurse is a woman of colour: the speaker notices her legs "shining darkly through the white hospital stockings". Poem of the week: Night Subway by Katha Pollitt 2012-07-23T11:03:39Z

The whole opera taken at that speed would have turned into a three-day event but here provided an opportunity to appreciate the orchestra's talent for colour and well-drilled detail. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z

All the colours were correct – the tree green, the bark brown. 'You think I'm mad?' – the truth about psychosomatic illness 2015-05-16T04:00:00Z

With regards to the colour; I think in black and white. How we made A Monster Calls 2012-06-14T12:30:00Z

They were in every room, canvases with agreeable colours, vague shapes signifying nothing. A Hologram for the King – extract 2013-01-26T21:00:02Z

To foster change in the industry, Brown said that as a producer she makes a pointed effort to hire people of colour who are qualified. Effie T Brown on Matt Damon: diversity comments make sense in his mind 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

Overall, one is faced with a convulsion of intertwining colours that suggest more the sensory experience of moving through and feeling the presence of nature rather than looking on from a perspective of objective detachment. Clare Woods, Laura Knight, Sarah Morris: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-07-12T12:00:00Z

A container bearing the faded Ilford logo, which echoed its colour range, already looks incongruous. The Disappearance of Darkness: Photography at the End of the Analog Era by Robert Burley – review 2012-12-09T00:05:44Z

We are seeing in Tunisia a democratisation that didn't require religious mobilisation, foreign invasion, or colours coded in Washington. After Tunisia: Robin Yassin-Kassab on Syria 2011-01-28T13:00:00Z

As there are two alternating casts of 250, the practical solution has been to divide the stage into a giant grid and issue each performer with a coloured T-shirt and a number. York Mystery Plays: God and his friend the devil 2012-08-07T17:10:55Z

"Isol's great talent as a picture book author is apparent in the overall experience created by the dramatic composition, the choice of colours and the intensity of the drawn line," said the announcement. Argentinian illustrator Isol wins Astrid Lindgren award 2013-03-26T13:03:35Z

His first independent book, Patrick, published in 1968, was a story of art – in that case music – turning dull, monochrome lives into vibrant colour. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z

Any view on what colour they might do the nursery? Another royal baby is on the way. How could the psychics, rogue butlers and columnists resist? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

We then return home to "the British disease", where Stone not so much flies as flaunts his colours as one who thinks the Iron Lady rescued us from the abyss. The Atlantic and its Enemies: A Personal History of the Cold War by Norman Stone 2010-05-15T23:07:00Z

When Apple II emerged a year later, boasting colour graphics and a plastic case, these revolutionary computers – compact, easy to understand and use, and entertaining – began to sell in larger numbers. Steve Jobs: iDesigned your life 2011-08-25T13:08:12Z

Most colour-blind people still see a world of vibrant colour. Seeing art with different eyes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

Leonardo called painting "dumb poetry" but the Last Supper is anything but: he put into it everything he knew about composition, gesture and colour. Christmas gifts 2012: the best art books 2012-11-30T08:00:03Z

During the discussion, he also suggested the issue of diversity was about class and not just about colour. BBC DJ criticises Radio 1 diversity 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

The green word, spelled out in thin letters arranged vertically like a fire-escape ladder, is WINES, though the acid colour suggests very unripe grapes. 100 years of neon 2011-08-27T23:05:03Z

Chill for 10 minutes then bake for 10-12 minutes, or until the biscuits just start colouring at the edges. ‘I was pretty much mute at school’: how Bake Off’s Kim-Joy found happiness 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Other venues are hosting exhibitions that go bold on scale, colour and interactivity. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

When credit is deemed to be due, it comes as crushingly faint praise: Ray was good at picking colours, she was a mean flower arranger and boy could she throw an afternoon ice cream party. There's no I in Eames 2010-10-26T09:47:00Z

"This was my attempt to dye it back to my own colour, which has gone wrong and I look like Berlusconi," he says, tugging at it miserably. Meet the Rev 2010-07-22T19:30:00Z

The brilliance of the fresco painting, the drama of the biblical story, and the extraordinary draughtsmanship and colour can arguably be better grasped by seeing every panel and lunette illustrated in accurate reproduction. The maestro’s maestro 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z

A Franco-German production shot in Morocco, the film cuts between a Tehran teeming with demonstrators and repressive police and shot in desaturated colour, and a lush, dreamlike, mysterious garden where the women gather. Women Without Men 2010-06-12T23:05:00Z

The extraordinary, operatic fantasy horror about a young American dancer discovering awful secrets at a German ballet school freaks out its audience with crazed intensity and eyeball-frazzling blocks of fierce colour. The scariest horror films ever – ranked! 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z

"Blue's my favourite colour, too," she says, trying to do art chat to a potential buyer. Junior Apprentice and Three in a Bed 2010-06-03T07:00:00Z

Gradually, Farida ascends through the registers of her voice, colouring the sound with the rasping tone maqam singers introduce to intensify emotion. Farida Mohammad Ali: the mother of all Maqam 2010-07-01T21:30:00Z

When I shoot colour nowadays, I use digital equipment so I can adjust the colours to the way I see them. Photographer John Gossage's best shot 2011-04-13T21:30:01Z

In a picture accompanying the Reuters story, young researchers gaze intensely at screens flashing with colour and light. Want to imagine what the Higgs boson might look like? Embrace modern art 2011-07-27T15:31:36Z

The Highgrove garden is, says Alan, one "of floral pageantry, with vivid colour composition, buzzing bees, and a heady mixture of scents". TV review: Highgrove: Alan Meets Prince Charles 2010-09-24T05:45:00Z

This is a term based on skin colour & age – stereotyping by colour or age is wrong no matter what race, age or community. From woke to gammon: buzzwords by the people who coined them 2019-12-25T05:00:00Z

The sensibility of much of his work is not far from the mid-century Hollywood musical: an unnatural, stylised world of primary colours, formulae and clichés, featuring carefully designed outbursts of spontaneous emotion, painstakingly recreated. From heresy to visionary 2013-02-23T09:01:01Z

Look at any billing for the show and the dominant colours will usually be orange and yellow. Oklahoma! musical memories 70 years on 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z

In a bid to tackle its very public and much-criticised diversity problem, SNL had invited only women of colour to this particular audition. Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on being 2018’s funniest character 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Those strings also coloured Vaughan Williams's Third Symphony, the Pastoral, with astute gradation. BBCSSO/Manze – review 2012-10-28T14:00:38Z

Philpott gives us an Australian stretcher-bearer named Henry Freeman, who wrote of marching “through the most beautiful country imaginable . . . wild flowers of every colour and description intermingled with the almost golden corn stretching for miles.” How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

His colours run through black and white to all shades of grey, plum, umber and softest ochre, as if everything was taking place in a fading dream. Kitagawa Utamaro 2010-09-18T23:05:00Z

Heat a ridged griddle, rub the slices with olive oil and grill first on one side, then the other, until soft and embossed with golden colour. Rachel Roddy’s recipe for almond, basil and tomato pesto 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Either way, the range and clarity of colours is dazzling. John Zorn: A Portrait – review 2013-01-14T17:32:59Z

It forces you to change your appearance and replace your values; you take on an urban personality, which has no colour or taste to it... Dictator-lit: Gaddafi's surreal gibberish 2010-03-24T12:46:00Z

The house was painted in primary colours, and there were giant succulents everywhere. The day David Hockney took me out for a drive in the Hollywood Hills 2017-02-05T05:00:00Z

“Plummer’s got this enormous charm whether he’s doing King Lear or The Sound of Music. This guy’s a real colouring book, he can do anything.” Ridley Scott on erasing Kevin Spacey from his new film: 'He's a very good actor. It's a pity' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

Bafta itself expressed “disappointment” and “frustration” after the nominations were made without any actors of colour in the main acting categories, and no women up for best director. Baftas 2020: Sam Mendes and 1917 emerge victorious with seven awards 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

There are not many works of art in the world that rival the authority and humanity of this four-metre wide coloured drawing, or "cartoon". Raphael: Cartoons and Tapestries 2010-09-06T14:32:00Z

One of Gage's most exciting chapters is The Sound of Color, exploring the parallels between colour harmony and the musical variety. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Freire characterises and colours each one inimitably, never searching for emotional depths that aren't there, nor attempting to confer profundity on music that is mostly intended simply to be enjoyed. Brasileiro: Villa-Lobos and His Friends – review 2012-08-22T14:31:01Z

Bold colour however did provide two of the night's biggest fashion hits. Baftas fashion: coats for the ladies, beards for the men 2013-02-10T21:00:22Z

Stooping and straining, tense and volatile, this skittery line-up is only just steadied by the regular patches of the jockeys' silk colours. From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism, Paintings from the Clark – review 2012-07-07T23:05:18Z

In the ensuing movements, he also succeeded in colouring the sound so as to define all the different voices implied by the one instrument. Alban Gerhardt ? review 2011-04-12T17:27:59Z

The luminosity of the colour takes your breath away. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

Aspects of the design and staging may fall short of authenticity, but these ballets fill the stage with a blast of colour and conviction that triumph over many more careful revivals. Mariinsky Ballet: Homage to Fokine ? review 2011-08-02T17:37:05Z

On occasion, it's gaudy with colour and at other times faded and sepia-toned. Memory Point(s) – review 2013-07-02T17:55:22Z

The final shortlisted title is Michael Taussig's What Color is the Sacred?, an anthropological analysis of the role of colour in the "bodily unconscious" and its colonial history. ?50,000 prize for books about 'colour' announces shortlist 2011-02-11T17:19:55Z

In fact, Homer barely used colour terms at all and when he did they were just peculiar. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

The same textures, shapes and colours keep on cropping up. Where's the thrill in today's cookie-cutter monster movies? 2011-08-16T16:58:08Z

They are widely nicknamed the “plum pudding pig” owing to their colouring: chestnut red with splashes of black. How to make the most of the season’s ripe plums | Cook residency 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

But it's also the portions, the framing, the lighting, the colour, all of those aspects of communicating this particular moment. Caravaggio and me 2010-07-24T23:04:00Z

He moves to Miami, acquires a boyfriend called Jimmy Kemple, starts wearing bright colours and buys miniature pinschers. I Love You Phillip Morris: pure escapism at its best 2012-11-15T10:28:34Z

I think if I ever went into work wearing coloured clothes, my colleagues would have a heart attack! ‘I haven’t worn colour since I was 14’: meet Britain’s longest-standing goths 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

A portrait of Ngatane's younger brother shows him an earnest and hopeful student; but a stylised version in violent colours locates him in some Van Gogh or Munch nightmare. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z

The saloon-set first act was curiously lugubrious, Puccini's masterful use of orchestral colour in setting the scene not entirely apparent. La Fanciulla del West 2010-08-25T21:15:00Z

The fantasy designs spring from motifs and colours found in Aymara culture and weaving. High society: El Alto, Bolivia, steps into the spotlight 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z

The cutout paper," he explained in a letter in 1948, "allows me to draw in colour. Can paper survive the digital age? 2012-11-09T09:20:27Z

“Cheaper LEDs will have a lower colour index of about 80, whereas daylight is about 100,” says Storey. Let there be light: 10 simple ways to brighten your home – from pale pink walls to changing bulbs 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

Together with an assortment of photographs and other memorabilia, several of these hung on the club's dark green walls, the colour of which accentuated its claustrophobic ambience. Michael Wojas obituary 2010-06-11T17:28:00Z

Here there are no cuts, just the judicious placing of colour postcards over monochrome portraits. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z

Images of water, the colour red and broken glass repeatedly intersect in a kaleidoscope of ominous foreshadowing. Don't Look Now: No 3 best horror film of all time 2010-10-22T10:52:00Z

At Cannes, working in wide screen and colour, it was the familiar large crowd of actors and technicians working more or less strictly to a detailed script. From the archive, 27 June 1967: The cinema according to François Truffaut 2012-06-27T06:30:00Z

Ridley Scott loves the colours and textures of other times and places. Do artists need to be accurate to recreate history? 2011-02-28T15:19:06Z

It was painfully clear that, as well as Meili, there had been child victims here: teenagers who were thrown in prison because they were the wrong colour and wrong social class. I rejected fairytales as a kid. Who needs them, when there are real wolves nearby? 2019-06-08T04:00:00Z

The colour comes, and it goes, drying unpredictably by evaporation. Awash with colour 2011-02-20T00:04:07Z

Treasures here include Vietnamese propaganda paintings of plummeting US helicopters and, in another impressive section, colour footage from Kennedy home movies, showing JFK preparing for a TV interview on Vietnam. The Vietnam War: terror, heartbreak and helicopters ablaze in an epic documentary 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z

Amatullah loved this story and the bold vibrant colours and adorable illustrations held her attention. Hugless Douglas and the Big Sleep by David Melling - review 2012-10-14T11:00:00Z

It was six years later, in 1967, that she began introducing colour to her dazzling geometric compositions. Bridget Riley presented with Sikkens prize for her work in colour 2012-10-29T21:28:17Z

A quiet dawn is bringing the colour back to the world outside, but in here it’s still dark. It’s time to make emotional abuse a crime 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

Instead of a polite Cambridge-style euphony and mellifluousness, I was striving for vibrant colours, drama, vigour and passion: the elements I thought were the hallmarks of Monteverdi's musical style. John Eliot Gardiner: Monteverdi and me 2010-09-02T22:01:00Z

Bake for 45 minutes, until set but hardly coloured, and leave to cool. Picnic recipes: food to enjoy in the great outdoors 2012-05-18T21:58:05Z

The poem goes on examining the colours, and simultaneously, in its relatively technical vocabulary, presents the reader with unusually coloured words. Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

The Finnish word for autumn colour is ruska: it’s the time when silver birches turn gold, the forest floor becomes thick with jewel-coloured blueberries and lingonberries, and mountain ash is heavy with scarlet berries. Where to see spectacular autumn colours around the world: our readers’ tips 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z

Compare his use of colour with Mark Rothko's purple murals in the Tate Modern and you will see the difference between Kapoor and a great artist. My Anish Kapoor confession 2010-06-10T16:42:00Z

His account has more air and light, and brings alive the sense of landscape – the East Anglian coast, the marshes, the wind and waves – which have coloured so much of Britten's music. Benjamin Britten biographies by Paul Kildea and Neil Powell – review 2013-02-16T14:30:01Z

I panicked, my vision lost all colour – everything turned monochrome apart from the green of a hedge at the end of the path. How Comrade Ilizarov saved my leg 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

Cartier-Bresson: A Question of Colour Somerset House, WC2 Until 27 January More details He also hated being asked to use colour for an assignment. Harry Gruyaert's best photograph – waiting for a Belgian parade 2012-11-14T16:11:14Z

“There were sort of nails too, or rather claws, blue-black in colour.” ‘The Merman’ review: A magical fish story that’s this big 2015-12-15T05:00:00Z

And meanwhile, on the telly, with the colours not quite right, Diana tilts her head to one side, and blushes. Royal Wedding and Nelson's Hospital: A Time Team Special 2010-05-18T05:45:00Z

"The black bag also contained 34 medical syringes, some were with needles and some without, some were sealed in original packaging and some contained traces of a brown coloured residue," he said. Geldof died of heroin overdose 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z

In 10 words she evokes all the desperation and determination and love that colour the book. Katherine Rundell's top 10 descriptions of food in fiction 2013-07-23T14:23:39Z

On another shelf sits her brightly coloured glass-bottle collection, which she has been adding to for the past 20 years – “it’s a one-in, one–out policy now”. I can't believe it's not clutter: maximalism hits our homes 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

So they took the topographic pictures and they coloured them for altitude: brown for high, blue for medium, green for low. Chris Hadfield meets Randall Munroe: ‘Are we alone in the universe?' 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z

Amid the whirl of musical colours from these five operas, his wistful "I'm coming home" twinned with a poignant, muted trumpet solo sticks in the mind. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z

In Us, the central characters happen to be African-American, but their skin colour is of little relevance. Jordan Peele on Us: ‘This is a very different movie from Get Out' 2019-03-09T05:00:00Z

The marital bed is "engulfed by writhing turquoise vegetables … and by gooey blossomings the colour of vulvas". Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

As reported in January, there aren't many colour photos of the Beatles' first US tour, in 1964: they were still relatively unproven, and colour film was expensive. Rare Beatles photos sell for £30,000 2013-03-25T11:55:11Z

Photograph: Felicity Cloake for the Guardian Spices A few spices pop up in almost every recipe I try – cumin, for example, which pairs beautifully with cauliflower, and turmeric for colour. How to cook the perfect aloo gobi 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

We speak in English, but when we talk about food, there aren’t enough words for the flavours and smells and colours, so we switch to Urdu Hindi. My first hour: five high flyers reveal their morning routines 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z

This is patently untrue, and what's more, skin colour has nothing to do with it. Michael Gove's history wars 2013-07-13T07:00:05Z

The top of the pie is now the colour of fire-damaged leather. Tim Dowling: The flowers are ruined and the pumpkin pie’s burnt. Happy Thanksgiving 2016-12-03T05:00:00Z

The Emperor Quartet play all three with the right mix of witty insouciance and technical accomplishment, but the group reveals its true colours in the Second Quartet. Britten: String Quartet No 2; Three Divertimenti; etc 2010-08-26T21:34:00Z

The fact is that the Meyerses, in all their one-dimensionality, are about the most prominent characters of colour in any Clooney-directed film to date. How failed racial politics sink George Clooney's Suburbicon 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

Their collaboration led to Franck experimenting with colour photography, which she used to capture theatrical productions such as Robert Wilson's ethereal version of Fables de la Fontaine at the Comédie Française in 2004. Martine Franck obituary 2012-08-19T16:14:29Z

But it doesn't necessarily follow that every Isolde will sound right in it, and Stemme's dark, implacable tone seemed unwieldy and disproportionately enormous against the muted orchestral colours that Dausgaard favoured. Prom 51: Swedish CO/Dausgaard 2010-08-24T11:49:00Z

It has been a beautiful journey with different shapes and a lot of nice colours with certain shades of grey and the dark moment of black when I lost my first wife. Shammi Kapoor obituary 2011-08-15T14:28:46Z

Not so much, especially since two thirds of her companions are people of colour. From Rosa Parks to Van Gogh: when TV takes on real-life figures 2018-10-22T04:00:00Z

Marine algae are classified by their colour according to the pigments they contain: green, brown, red. A gourmet revival for St. Lawrence River marine algae 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

For me, he produced the perfect cap on my leggy miniskirted designs and the frame for my colour cosmetics. Vidal Sassoon remembered by Mary Quant 2012-12-22T22:30:01Z

Stolid of brushwork, colours fading, it was a picture pressed so far back into art history as to be practically a period piece. From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the D Daskalopoulos Collection – review 2012-12-23T00:06:37Z

I'd hoped for something gorgeous that showed off my arms, in a really pretty colour. Lucy Walker: My Oscars diary 2011-03-06T00:13:02Z

Katy Perry's California Dreams world tour is everything that Bieber's is not – silly, brightly coloured, theatrical, fun and very down on butchers. Justin Bieber and Katy Perry live 2011-03-20T00:05:30Z

His best movies have all the immediacy, all the colour, verve and larger-than-life characterisation of the sharpest graphic novels. The next Paul Verhoeven? I'd buy that for a dollar 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z

Fox principally uses the colour to tell some stories that interest him. TV review: A History of Art in Three Colours 2012-08-08T21:00:04Z

Her Scottish mother took her there in the late 1960s while on honeymoon with her second husband, and Forna has vivid memories of the colour of the sea. Aminatta Forna: a life in writing 2013-05-03T17:00:02Z

Black and white is a different beast, with its own values and techniques, which are not necessarily compatible with colour reproduction. The Oscars' love affair with monochrome is not black and white 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z

Also, it is a beautiful colour, like the back of the sea at the end of a long winter. Britain’s most popular dogs? I have a bone to pick with the top 10 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z

I think it's really easy: they have the crest, the House colours, and even the motivational phrase – it's practically a sport to reach the throne. Game of Thrones gets World Cup kits: which House is your favourite? 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z

The book, illustrated mostly in black and white, with Cott's own drawings and photographs, is so rich in dramatic adaptations and bizarre lifestyles, the lack of colour doesn't seem to matter. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

He is the same colour as the earth, and a great deal less interesting to look at. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

The train runs three times a week, and is particularly popular in October for the fall colours. 18 of the world’s best rail journeys 2018-05-05T04:00:00Z

Slivers and jitters of colour cross Sydney Harbour and wash over the shells of the Opera House. Gurrumul at Vivid Live 2013 – review 2013-05-29T00:41:49Z

She has been described as a Renaissance woman who broke a colour bar through her beauty, intelligence, and performing skills. Resignation of Miss America lays bare nation's neuroses: from the archive, 24 July 1984 2013-07-24T06:30:00Z

In the last decade, only 14 women of colour were among the 100 women nominated by the Academy for the best actress and best supporting actress awards. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

In an analogue world there is an infinite potential for colour names, which is limited only by the sensitivity with which we can distinguish differences. Notes & Queries: Which is the most repeated TV episode? 2012-12-19T16:55:02Z

The dance goes on without him as the brightly coloured balloons of the Armistice celebrations float upwards, and yesterday's forgotten hero is wheeled away by another war casualty. The Silver Tassie 2010-09-21T21:31:00Z

Hall's connecting interludes could equate with the white space around the blocks of primary colour. Between the Ears: On the Trail of the Snail ? review 2010-12-13T08:00:00Z

“We try to be very seasonal, so it’s a great way, in these slightly barren months, to add a little colour and texture,” says Samuel. Sea spaghetti in the supermarket: the unstoppable rise of seaweed 2015-05-20T04:00:00Z

But if the planting is a wild palette of carefully chosen colour, the hard materials are edited into a minimalist one of old and new. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

In a yard piled high with rubbish so diverse that in London it would be an installation, a young woman, her flesh the colour of putty, lies on the roof of a car. Dublin theatre festival 2012: The Boys of Foley Street; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Talk of the Town – review 2012-10-06T23:08:02Z

With timpani adding definition as well as punctuation, the progress towards the arrival of the three trombones in the finale was logically charted to bring the ultimate blaze of colour. ACO/Tognetti 2010-08-31T22:00:00Z

Hall, who I would speculate is not typically thought of as a woman of colour, has explained that she is making the film by way of exploring her own mixed-race ancestry. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

Yet, though they may be new-fangled additions, I can't help missing the bittersweet flavour of the orange and cherry, and the colour they bring. How to mix the perfect old fashioned 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z

The colours – pristine white fish, scarlet pomegranate and green chilli – mirror those of Santa and the tree. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

I was only focused on Dad, who was now the colour of a blueberry. Experience: I watched my dad die – and then come back to life 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

Crozier painted many of his most intensely coloured landscapes at dusk. William Crozier obituary 2011-07-15T18:14:26Z

The set designer told him that this was because blue wasn’t in David Lynch’s colour palette. How Twin Peaks led a fan into and out of trouble 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z

Children get their own menu and in a daring departure from the French norm, colouring books. Lille wonder: a whistle-stop tour of a Franco-Belgian jewel 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z

Would they bow to the commercial demands expected of female artists, or would they reveal their true colours and end up as an obscure cult band? Goodbye to the Go-Go's: the greatest girl band of all time? 2010-05-12T16:12:00Z

I would use another name, so they didn't know what race or colour I was; some of them were completely honest about how they felt, thinking that it was a white guy calling. John Legend and the Roots: hearts, minds and soul 2010-10-19T21:00:00Z

At the same time, these low-budget productions produced high profit margins for the struggling studios and for a time urban audiences of colour and studio suits were pleased with the results. The return of blaxploitation: why the time is right to bring back Shaft and Foxy Brown 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

“No two women are the same and I wanted to celebrate women’s individuality and style, vivid colours..,” Ferragamo strolls through Milan daisy garden under the stars 2017-09-24T04:00:00Z

It was painted fluorescent, like if a baby puked up toxic vomit, with weird circles the colour of pepperoni all over the breastplate. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: they wear it well 2013-04-12T23:01:00Z

He's a master of black and white, and colour. The artists' artist: graphic novelists 2011-07-13T20:59:02Z

His life is shown by the film to be full of colour, saltiness and vitality. Matteo Garrone: breaking free from the mob 2013-03-21T19:30:01Z

But I think this location will show its true colours when the pedestrians start doing their thing. A man, a theremin and a horde of London Bridge commuters 2010-08-26T21:14:00Z

Ratio’s taproom is a riot of colour, with geometric wallpaper, canary-yellow bar stools, and industrial red-trim benches, while the patio is the perfect spot for a game of corn hole or ladder golf. Top 10 craft beer bars in Denver 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The lights come up on the second half, and the Pitlochry summer ensemble shows its colours. Kiss Me Kate 2010-06-14T20:45:00Z

The first of Norris's plays to be commissioned by the Royal Court, its attack on cut-throat capitalism is broad-brush but full of colour and movement. Peter and Alice; The Low Road – review 2013-03-31T00:05:46Z

Darwin was a self-confessed dunce at drawing – a handicap for a naturalist – but as Munro, points out, "to compensate he substituted a rich variety of colour descriptions". Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Last week Alexis Soloski celebrated the benefits of unconventional casting on this blog, quite rightly saying that casting decisions need not be constrained by age, gender or skin colour. The 'wrong' casting can be so right 2010-04-26T13:41:00Z

These are not human qualities: people tend to relate more to coloured, intricate, delicate or simply misshapen glass. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Three of its four panels are in the colours of the Irish flag; the fourth panel is black. Belfast's Ulster Museum and the trouble with the Troubles 2010-05-19T15:35:00Z

There are some special colours that you really have to get right. Andreas Scholl and Philippe Jaroussky: pushing the envelope for countertenors 2010-12-06T21:31:00Z

Gladstone was the first prominent intellectual to notice something awry with the Greek poet's sense of colour. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

He went further the following day, telling El País: “It’s parochial, ignorant and offensive to Spaniards themselves. One of the things I most enjoy is the colour and texture of other accents.” Alfonso Cuarón condemns Spanish subtitles on Roma 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z

A search on social media shows the venue is a riot of colour, where the deep blue tiles command the most attention; the cafe now has 20,000 tagged photos by customers on Instagram. Is Instagram changing the way we design the world? 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z

Black and brown actors are often lauded for roles in which they interrogate the theme of race and confirm existing stereotypes about people of colour. And the real winner is… welcome to the Observer’s alternative Oscars 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z

“The conversation about bystanders has to be a gendered conversation: it’s like with racism. Is the responsibility of people of colour to white people to challenge white racism? No, it isn’t.” Why did no one speak out about Harvey Weinstein? 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z

Or maybe the giant brain that sings when you show it colours. Guerilla scientists infiltrate Secret Garden Party 2010-07-23T17:58:00Z

Play and experiment with colour in jewellery, tile decorating and glazing workshops then look at the science of colour in interactive light shows. This week's new events 2011-02-05T00:05:45Z

Then, in summer, the war tried to kill us as the heat blanched all colour from the plains. The Guardian first book award: the shortlisted authors introduce their work 2012-11-09T22:50:02Z

Beautiful fabric and colour, but poor fit and weird proportions, especially the length of the skirt. ‘Outlander’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Wounds We Carry 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z

The scumbling is incredibly difficult to copy, the different colours peeping through the layers – nightmare. How easy is it to copy a famous painting? 2013-07-22T07:00:09Z

I’ll say it again, the majority of Americans are women, people of colour and young people. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

As family cinema marches towards a world of sanitised, garishly coloured, hyperactive computer-animated fantasy, the 1980s is starting to look like a golden age for kids' movies. This week's new film events 2013-01-12T06:00:10Z

It's matched by his fine-tuning of colour – there's a gorgeous interplay of blues and oranges in many of the canvases included in the show. Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin: the odd couple 2011-07-06T15:00:01Z

"Wow," she said, "that looks just like a Monet!" as one embarrassed painter reluctantly revealed a ruined canvas on which the rain had made all the colours run into each other. TV review: Turner's Thames; A Short History of Everything Else 2012-06-13T21:30:01Z

Watching these three women of colour up on stage, shooting this huge movie, not a white man in sight, it is impossible not to feel a little thrill. ‘You are not expecting this’: Oprah on A Wrinkle in Time 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z

The speaker is observing what is surely a Parisian market, and savouring its smells and colours. Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z

The farm’s plants begin to glow in shades “unlike any known colours of the normal spectrum.” The Old, American Horror Behind “Stranger Things” 2016-08-17T04:00:00Z

Matthew Bourne, however, was already a maverick showman, mining his own highly coloured seam of nostalgia and pastiche. Matthew Bourne's Early Adventures – review 2012-05-23T17:09:58Z

Maybe just a fraction in the later stages of Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony, when the propulsion and theatricality of the finale seemed occasionally to overwhelm the balance and colour of the dazzling orchestral writing. LSO/Pappano – review 2013-05-19T16:30:01Z

Magic Lantern is a dizzying light show of after-images spun from simple projections of coloured circles. This week's new exhibitions 2011-01-29T00:06:24Z

The year he died, my cousin Ann and I took my daughter Andrea to Trafalgar Square to feed the pigeons and the photograph of that day is virtually the same, but in colour. Family life 2012-10-12T23:05:19Z

Holding everything together is Mosley's antiquated palette, a blend of sludgy greens and browns, the cream of faded paper, burnt orange and black that takes you right back to the muddied colours of medieval icons. Artist of the week 148: Ryan Mosley 2011-07-28T11:11:44Z

In traditional Studio Ghibli-style, director Isao Takahata uses fantastical colours and the contrast between light and dark to create a sometimes stunningly sad metaphor for the narrow bridge between life and death. The best animated films for grownups 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

The film plays with colour palette and aspect ratio, which, combined with a sleek, bassy soundtrack from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, captures the rush of teenage abandon. How Waves unpicks the pressures of ‘black excellence’ 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

This proves that the baby isn’t colour blind and also shows how novelty captures our attention. A neuroscientist explains: Why we find it hard to stick to New Year resolutions 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z

Green and yellow are the colours of vegetation. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

When she gets into her taxi, you have extremely stylised shots of the rain and the colours outside. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

What this choral behemoth needed was colour, to differentiate the five groups. Mass in 40 Parts: a masterpiece, 400 years late 2011-03-03T22:30:01Z

To have a bad bagel – one without the crunch and elasticity of dough, too powdery and without the right colouring – is really upsetting. Jessie Ware: 'I'm such a bully about food' 2013-01-19T22:00:00Z

This younger generation do not hate you for the colour of your skin, they do not hate you because you’re in love with someone of the same gender. Michael Moore: ‘Trump inspires his side. It’s like Munich in 1932’ 2016-06-05T04:00:00Z

In another part of the workshop, a painter is diligently applying colour to a figure's face, using a reproduction of one of the National's Cranachs as a reference. Michael Landy: patron saint of destruction 2013-04-29T17:39:01Z

The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted: the invention of drinking glasses meant that the colour, transparency and clarity became important. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

The second room takes us back to early pop, with paintings derived from comics and adverts, the charming vernacular of mis-registered blocks of colour, wonky line and hokey imagery lovingly blown up, edited and repainted. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

For years I have been struck by how much dislike of the British empire has coloured Gibson's films. Mel Gibson: the year of living disastrously 2010-12-16T22:39:01Z

It brims over with energy and colour, Mars's red mantle swelling with erotic fury in response to the folded, yellow robes of the vestal virgin, surprised in her sleep. The Magnificent Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein - review 2011-08-02T13:01:56Z

Cook the garlic very gently until just beginning to colour, then add the anchovies and stir to dissolve. How to cook the perfect pasta puttanesca 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

He uses a wonderful delicate colour palette of blue, sage green, lilac and apricot to create his own quirkily detailed dream-like world. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

Certainly Bernstein's Candide Overture sounded breezy and fun - a flash of bright colours and brash contrasts. RSNO/Oundjian – review 2013-02-11T18:44:00Z

She even chose a disabled woman of colour, Keah Brown, to interview her for the magazine. Captain Marvel: why sexist attempts at sabotage will fail 2019-02-21T05:00:00Z

Recalling Lloyd's and the Pompidou before it, the Cheesegrater's building-as-machine ethos is celebrated everywhere you look, with each component exposed and painted in jovial colours – just like the cogs of Stirk's transparent watch. The Cheesegrater: Richard Rogers sprinkles the Square Mile 2013-06-16T17:00:01Z

A more detached and specialised register follows: "subjective/ or optical colours", "achromatic". Poem of the week: The Coloration of Feathers by Ruth Fainlight 2012-02-13T09:34:36Z

He becomes obsessed with early colour photography, marvelling at its immediacy. Time Present and Time Past by Deirdre Madden – review 2013-07-07T10:30:00Z

Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian The bagels are the result of seven coloured dough mixtures. Rainbow bagels – like normal bagels but psychedelic 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z

The pages are populated with lovely colour pictures and stylish paradoxes; lucid dreams, mirages, echoes, bubbles, mirror images and more are explored with a pleasantly provocative insistence on multiplying difficulties. Steven Poole's non-fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-19T00:06:01Z

I always hated the colours when you shoot on film stock, as they are decided by the manu-facturers. Photographer John Gossage's best shot 2011-04-13T21:30:01Z

Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Monopolising the red carpet tonight isn’t, oddly, American Horror Story’s ensemble cast but the colour black. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

“You often see women’s stories, but you don’t often see women of colour who are queer. And I think we need more of that,” she offers as explanation for her sudden demand. Master of None's Lena Waithe: 'If you come from a poor background, TV becomes what you dream about' 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z

There were also anoraks in block colours and two-tone denim jacket and short combinations, and the odd gingham print. Portugal's Moura pays tribute to cod fishermen at Milan Fashion close 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z

The famously white-sanded beach is surrounded by rock with a variety of coloured strata. Scotland's rocky road: a journey to the edge of Lewis – a photo essay 2017-06-28T04:00:00Z

Butterflies can see more colours than any other animal and the exhibition allows visitors to experience what it is like to see through a compound eye. The real butterfly effect ? not chaos, but wonder 2011-04-06T17:05:52Z

“But my immediate reaction was … I asked, did she know who it was? No. What colour were they? She said it was a black person.” Liam Neeson: After a friend was raped, I wanted to kill a black man 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Lucy Nicholson Hollywood ladies, allow me to introduce you to a concept called "colour." Oscars 2013: 10 things we learned on the night 2013-02-25T16:00:56Z

Its primary focus is the austerity years immediately following the second world war, when these carnivals travelling across Britain and the US delivered brief excursions into a world of grace, danger, colour and glamour. TV highlights 09/08/2011: The Sex Education Show 2011-08-08T22:00:00Z

A 1988 attempt by the media mogul Ted Turner to add colour was eventually defeated after critics pointed out that Welles had spoken out about the process prior to his death. US TV to screen Alexander Payne's hated colour version of Nebraska 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

The blanket under him was a different colour. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

As the pears soak up the syrup, they progress along the colour swatch from victoria plum to – and this takes about 48 hours – a rather regal-looking Phoenician purple. Rachel Roddy's recipe for pears poached in red wine 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z

Most of the 11 directors are women, including women of colour. Helen Hunt: ‘An Oscar's not a big game-changer. It's not like your worries are over’ 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

The chef is a genius - his marriage of flavours and colours are a delight for the tastebuds and the eyes. The best of France ? as chosen by our readers 2011-03-21T17:16:00Z

"Extremely delicate attention" was paid to the coloured glass in Christ's halo, which was "in very bad shape", they added. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z

If the liberation of colour was one of Gauguin's most exhilarating attainments, here he seems almost to abjure it. Gauguin: Into the mystic 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z

Lift on to a baking sheet and bake for 12-15 minutes, until set and lightly coloured. American pie: Six of the best Fourth of July pies 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z

The wall was the wrong colour: it had to be repainted in a subtly different shade. Aki Kaurismäki: 'I can watch Marvel movies – if it's Sunday and I'm hungover' 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z

The first occurred around 1914 with the discovery of "the dazzle effect of colour juxtaposition", which was pioneered by the avant-garde artists of the op-art movement. Signposts to the modern age 2010-06-05T23:04:00Z

The interpretation seems straightforward according to the popular press – the coloured blobs represent a "pleasure centre", an "art centre" or perhaps a "love centre" – but none of this is true. Vaughan Bell: the trouble with brain scans 2012-05-26T23:07:02Z

Her choice for the Oscars is a strapless gown in Ultraviolet, the colour hotly tipped by Pantone. Oscars 2019: the red carpet, the ceremony and the winners – live! 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z

The series got a mixed reception, though: the photographs puzzled some people purely because they were in colour. David Moore's best photograph – children on a Derby estate 2013-05-08T17:30:01Z

With the magnolia long gone, Woods and Hughes’s home is now full of life and colour. On the bright side: bringing colour home 2020-11-21T05:00:00Z

But when BBC2 was launched it was the first British channel to show exclusively in colour. Civilisation in HD: Which other shows deserve a high-def makeover? 2011-02-09T11:29:55Z

The eye hospital has a series of brightly coloured glass sculptures on permanent display, with a sign by the entrance imploring people to "please touch" the tactile art. Art and minds: hospital trust brings in culture to promote wellbeing 2012-02-08T15:24:00Z

“Boris Johnson is showing his true colours. He doesn’t want poor people living in London.” Boris Johnson to approve ‘affordable’ London flats for rent at up to £2,800 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

There's a bright pink lobster salad bowl, a leapfrogging elves bowl and teapots of all colours. 1000 kids | Art and design museums 2010-03-30T23:05:00Z

The only things that are pristine and ordered are the dozen or so new paintings hung in a long, neat line around two walls, colours restrained, lines minimal, their aura inordinately calm. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

I remember my reluctance to shoot in colour as more publications began demanding it. Shooting from the Hipstamatic: how I wised up to my smartphone's potential 2013-03-01T15:58:35Z

It is to Jones's huge credit that she brings comparable tonal colouring to the WNO orchestra's playing; making things sound so fresh and immediate in such a familiar opera shows a remarkable musical perception. La Traviata ? review 2012-02-13T17:14:00Z

We spoke to some of Britain’s long-standing goths about the scene, fashion and music, and whether they ever see themselves wearing colour in their future. ‘I haven’t worn colour since I was 14’: meet Britain’s longest-standing goths 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z

Don’t miss Jacob Lawrence’s striking Migration Series: the story of African-Americans’ journey north in the wake of the first and second world wars, told through 60 tempera panels painted in vivid blocks of colour. 10 of the best ways to enjoy New York … on a budget 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

The recent restoration of an original, coloured copy of the film and its lionisation in Martin Scorsese's Hugo are only the most recent nods to the master of Montreuil's lunar voyage. Georges Méliès's Robinson Crusoé film resurfaces in Pordenone 2012-10-10T14:22:02Z

Browning paints in contrasted colours and shapes, and deploys some brilliant chiaroscuro. Poem of the week: Night and Morning by Robert Browning 2013-04-22T09:10:03Z

Haydn's B minor Sonata H32 was brightly articulated, with more colour, but this is still very inward music. Till Fellner – review 2013-06-26T16:59:42Z

Try this one: what colour medal is given to people who come second in the Olympics? Burton and Taylor; Take on the Twisters – TV review 2013-07-22T21:30:00Z

“Somewhere along the way, being white became seen as ‘relatable’, and you started to see people of colour only reflected as stereotypes or specific archetypes. Issa Rae: 'So much of the media presents blackness as fierce and flawless. I’m not' 2017-08-05T04:00:00Z

The work was as much about aesthetics as politics: the women sat at tables covered with brightly coloured tablecloths, so that, viewed from above, each table looked like a square in a great, patterned patchwork. Tate Modern's women's liberation army 2013-01-29T18:23:46Z

So what if a group of green Smarties wants to organise a green pride march and demand the immediate expulsion of all the other colours from the tube? Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: Inside The Aryan Brotherhood 2010-06-25T23:06:00Z

But there was a twist: Libertíny introduced a dye into the food the bees ate, colouring the resulting sculpture red. Hive talking: Tomás Libertíny's bee art 2012-07-09T19:31:01Z

Children under ten may gawp at the spectacle with all its primary colours and plasticky sets, but they may not be transported to the kingdom of fantastical delight one finds at the best musicals. Monster reviews 2011-06-15T09:55:53Z

The small, coloured mat aims to stimulate relevant pressure points by prodding every millimetre of one’s back with the 8,820 plastic points of its cleats. Can a bed of nails really relieve stress and insomnia - or just make me squeal? 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z

But it was on its belly, like a child's toy plane that has been scattered into a crash landing, and it was a different colour to the Harrier. Young arts critics competition 2010: the winning entries 2010-10-20T22:00:00Z

When it comes to the table it’s almost monochrome – between pure white and lightly brown-ish in colour. The best food they ate in 2015 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z

The colour of . . . those Quality Streets with a nut in the middle. Laura Solon: My Edinburgh 2010-08-16T09:13:00Z

An Islamic star, Cleopatra's Needle, the colours of the desert, the Arc de Triomphe: all are reduced to their essential forms and held in perfect balance in a picture as condensed as a sonnet. Saloua Raouda Choucair – review 2013-04-20T23:05:40Z

"I always dress like this; I'm colour blind," he explains. Rutger Hauer on Hobo With A Shotgun 2011-07-08T23:07:07Z

I am very conscious of how much colour affects my mood,” says artist and designer Anna Jacobs, sitting on her pink velvet sofa in a zebra-print T-shirt and shocking pink trousers. Making a splash: a rental flat that’s awash with colour 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

Not long after, he embarked on an astonishing series of huge acrylic canvases of high-key deep greens, reds, violets and oranges deployed in radiant fields, stark blocks and shimmering columns of ultra-vibrant colour. John Hoyland obituary 2011-08-01T19:14:31Z

Pick the flowering bracts when they are fully opened and bright yellow green in colour and dry on a warm windowsill. How to grow your own medicine cabinet | Alys Fowler 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z

Ashley agrees that getting gigs is still mainly about who you know, which makes it all the more important for women of colour to help each other up when they find success. ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

His huge collection of LP records is organised by genre and by country, although all the covers are painted in colours to imitate the flags of Argentina and Colombia. How Cali’s DIY dance clubs keep the spirit of salsa alive 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z

Colourful memories of books first read at school ... a stack of coloured pencils. The books that send me back to school 2010-09-06T09:15:00Z

In her eyes a torrent of ambiguous colour surges past, gradually narrowing until it vanishes into transparency. Woman Fish by Dorothy Tse, translated by Nicky Harman 2013-03-21T13:24:10Z

The Dream and the Silence is shot in a grainy black-and-white, apart from two moments filmed in colour. Cannes 2012: The Dream and the Silence – review 2012-05-24T12:34:30Z

I start bringing in purees of different colours and flavours. ‘For five years we dreaded every meal’: my infant son’s struggle with food 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z

She's stunned by the colour of the silk she produces, but the "stench of a bad and sickening future" fills the room where she lives and works. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z

It had its own artistic and historic costume studio, specialising in free-flowing quasi-medieval Pre-Raphaelite gowns in dusky colours. You too could look like Janey Morris in a Rossetti portrait wearing a deep blue dress. Aesthetic values 2011-03-26T00:05:03Z

As a person of colour in the United States, I would be foolish to assume that every time I flirt with the life of the scofflaw, I’m going to come out unscathed. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Add the onion, garlic, ginger and chilli to the pan along with the spices and salt and fry, stirring vigorously, until well coloured, but not burnt. How to make the perfect saag paneer 2014-06-26T04:00:00Z

And what colour should the tea be? "You know the Quality Street toffees in the yellow wrapper?" he says. Love music love food: pop will eat itself 2011-07-15T22:00:00Z

Mark Forsyth, in “The Elements of Eloquence”, describes it as: opinion, size, age, shape, colour, origin, material, purpose and then Noun. Hidden in plain sight 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

"So I made a colour version. I hope no one ever sees it." US TV to screen Alexander Payne's hated colour version of Nebraska 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

"I sometimes think Scarlatti must have travelled to the 18th century from the future, because his keyboard music implies tonal effects and colours that seem unimaginable on a harpsichord," agreed WaxwingSlaine. Readers' reviews 2011-02-10T22:10:00Z

“People who finance the movies are not going to want to throw millions behind a movie of a non-famous person of colour,” he says. Famous films re-edited to highlight Hollywood's race problem 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

While eating our chickpea curries, roti and dumplings, we talk about the memories associated with certain foods; the experiences of queer people of colour, and the dilemmas of coming out to family elders. 'We are offering something people didn’t get before': inside gal-dem 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z

The brown colour hints at the earth, perhaps a connection to the soil and concern for the planet. TV review: All in the Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry 2012-06-12T22:15:01Z

Safe from the clumsy efforts of restorers, protected from being badly lit or hung against the wrong colour, it becomes indestructible by being destroyed. Now you see them: the eternal allure of lost art 2012-07-01T18:31:01Z

You know, those wooden platforms that can be picked up by forklift trucks, rather than the boards artists use to mix their colours. TV review: Dragons' Den 2011-07-31T21:00:00Z

Making very public use of a new system called TriOviz to produce the familiar, blurry coloured fringing around people and objects, its 3D works in a fairly unremarkable but mildly headache-inducing way. Games out this week 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

Moving from colour to black and white, noise to silence, the present to the past and back again, McQueen's exhibition is filled with disjunctions, echoes and difficulties. Steve McQueen's city of cinemas makes voyeurs of us all 2013-03-21T17:50:37Z

He wrote music in primary colours and optimistic gestures: even Pastoral, the first movement of a planned Third Symphony, is overwhelmingly affirming, despite the fact he finished it only five days before he died. SCO/Walker ? review 2011-03-21T18:27:39Z

Heat the oil in a large frying pan on a medium heat, then add the garlic and cook until well coloured, then remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and discard. Carbonara wars: why Italy is right to be mad about a French farfalle travesty 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z

Drizzle over the remaining tablespoon of oil and bake for 30 minutes, until nicely coloured and bubbling. Yotam Ottolenghi’s recipes for Easter lamb 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

Gatti coaxed superb colour from the orchestra, especially the ever-busy woodwind, and kept textures transparent to support the ensembles as they divided and reshaped in various contrapuntal patterns. Falstaff; Tallis Scholars ? review 2012-05-19T23:06:20Z

At the National Chrysanthemum Society’s annual show in northern Virginia, a steady stream of visitors discovered an alternative world of mums – blooms of rare size, colour and form. US flower growers fear bloom is off the hobby 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z

When, then, did pop art become mind candy, bubblegum, an uncritical adoration of bright lights and synthetic colours? From Warhol to Murakami: pop art hasn't lost its soul, it's selling it 2012-02-09T15:46:11Z

I'm probably being played by a completely different actress with different coloured hair this time. Transformers 3: more robot flaws than robot wars 2011-02-09T09:27:00Z

All three produced remarkable work: Ibragimova's wonderful range of colour and her breathtaking pianissimo; Gerhardt's much more matter-of-fact cello sound but utterly secure musicianship; Osborne's bright, forward pianism, its articulation crystal clear. Ibragimova/Gerhardt/Osborne ? review 2011-02-02T18:35:21Z

Anyone who knew him will tell you he had an innate sense for shape and colour. Alexander McQueen remembered 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z

Long consigned to the realm of anecdote and legend, this ambitious project was revisited by De Middel in a photobook that combines myth and reality in constructed colour photographs, drawings and letters. Deutsche Börse 2013 – a shortlist that's short of photographers 2012-11-26T16:32:00Z

For Fritsch, colour is what transforms a sculpture from a naturalistic ornament into a symbol. Katharina Fritsch on her Fourth Plinth cockerel sculpture: 'I didn't want to make fun – but I was invited' 2013-07-24T18:29:00Z

There was a particular teacher who was bent on casting people of colour in very subservient roles. Katori Hall: 'I've had two hours sleep!' 2010-03-23T21:30:00Z

I remember the day the Voting Rights Act was passed in 1965, people of colour circled around, block after block, trying to vote.” ‘You've got to carry on that fight’: strangers swap life-changing experiences 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z

Franklin and her team started exploring just how many colour categories babies possess. The vision thing: how babies colour in the world 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

Split over Syria Topics: Syria A boy with his face painted in the colours of the Syrian opposition flag takes part in a demonstration against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad. What it takes to be in Vogue 2012-06-11T14:58:00Z

She enters their world of bright colours and moral contrasts with confident ease, and pitches her ideas and diction at the appropriate level – "writing the height", as a children's author once described it. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

Caiman eyes shine at the edge of the lagoon and frogs and toads of all colours and sizes add to the howler monkeys, turtles and toucans we’d seen earlier in the day. It’s a jungle out there: Costa Rica with kids 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z

The grimmest of scenes are parodied with flamboyant colours. The Hogarth of Soweto: Ephraim Ngatane 2010-03-19T14:11:00Z

We put our journalists on trial and snigger at the vulgarity of other nations while continuing to insist on knowing what colour knickers Katie Price is wearing to the TV Quick awards. Why endure London Olympic hell when you can live the American dream? 2012-07-27T17:00:02Z

We've arrived at her bookshop, where the volumes displayed in the window are arranged not by subject, or by genre, but by colour, which seems a very LA touch. Laura Marling: 'Americans – they're just a lot more poetic' 2013-04-27T23:04:02Z

At three, he was hooked: on the colours, the purity – it’s goodies v baddies, like Twitter – and the power. 'These men are bad role models': will my son get over his superhero obsession? 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

I guess the needling pop-psychological subtext – that Winckelmann elided the colour of the marbles with the colour of purity in a bid to ratify his sexual awakening – that bit you can take or leave. TV review: A History of Art in Three Colours 2012-08-08T21:00:04Z

“He was always in the garden painting … He was a very messy painter … the paint and the colours were everywhere.” Brush with genius: the hidden talent of Orson Welles 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z

Ryczek shot in colour, converting it to black and white in his studio. Big picture: Man Feeding Swans, by Marcin Ryczek 2013-03-01T16:30:00Z

Cut the artichokes into quarters and add to the pan – if you add them any earlier the entire paella will turn dark in colour. The 20 best Spanish recipes: part 2 2015-06-30T04:00:00Z

It was the colour of it all that really struck me: the scarlet and gold ... all those dukes and earls in their robes, and the new Queen. Ovaltine, chocolate and a bottle of milk: choristers recall coronation highlights 2013-06-02T07:30:04Z

They did this by telling us what colours, patterns, brands and silhouettes they loved and they hated. Google's next big idea ? an online fashion revolution 2010-11-21T00:11:00Z

Watson has notched up more than 250 Vogue covers and is the master of clean, clear portraits of the beautiful and the famous, both in moody black and white and pristine colour. Photography books of the year 2010-12-12T00:06:00Z

Here is "no hearing or breathing, no movements, no colours, just silence"; here is peace among men; here is a new, bold beginning. Power, Corruption & Lies by New Order 2011-08-08T13:38:25Z

When Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh first saw Hokusai’s prints, with their vivid colours and startling, off-kilter points of view, it sparked a revolution in their own art. Riding the crest 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z

They also each have dressing gowns in the same bright colours as their suits, but the best Pollapunk fact is that they submitted their hit debut album as coursework on their teacher training course. Eurovision 2014: Reporter's diary 2014-05-11T11:21:17Z

Its range of stops enabled him to retain the colouring central to his approach, but on an instrument of impeccable provenance. Rafael Puyana obituary 2013-03-09T18:43:43Z

Neighbours gossip over the washing line, shopping baskets become hats, and memories rise to the surface like gaily coloured balloons. Memoirs of a Biscuit Tin 2010-08-12T15:47:00Z

As the print boom more complicated multiplate colour images, which became the speciality of Studio Prints. Dorothea Wight obituary 2013-06-10T11:48:42Z

"It’s not a colour issue. I think he is probably a bit too 'street' for Bond. Is it a question of being suave? Yeah." Latest James Bond scribe says Idris Elba 'too street' to play 007 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

But despite sumptuously coloured dance sequences it only occasionally lifts off. Julius Caesar; The Physicists; Wah! Wah! Girls – review 2012-06-09T23:08:07Z

He gave exceptional accounts of I Wonder As I Wander and Sally in Our Alley, with the voice scaled down to express minute refinements of subtle colouring. Allan Clayton/Malcolm Martineau – review 2013-04-17T16:36:41Z

The last sequence of colour photos in the death album were not grotesque. The death of Osama bin Laden: how the US finally got its man 2012-10-12T22:00:09Z

The colours of fulgurites reflect the composition of the sand in which they are formed, varying from grey-black to translucent. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

These clothes were so disgusting, but she'd go: "Ooh, it's very beautiful, this colour." Gemma Arterton: 'Our house was a bit Ab Fab at times' 2013-05-11T23:05:25Z

The picture starts out light and larky before taking a welcome swerve into nastiness as these supposedly lovable codgers with their insulin injections and their corned-beef sandwiches begin to show their true colours. Michael Caine: 'Crime comes from poverty, and those suffering are darker people' 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z

Dirty Paws tells of a war between the birds and bees, when the sky was "coloured black by the killing machines". Of Monsters and Men: My Head Is an Animal – review 2012-08-23T21:00:03Z

This is clever use of colour: the shades she chooses for her hair and frocks are the ones that most flatter her skin and accentuate her eyes. The 50 best-dressed over-50s – in pictures 2013-03-29T16:30:00Z

If you fancy spicing it up by adding some non-fattening food colouring, then I'm not going to stop you, sweethearts. Digested read: Six Weeks to OMG – Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends by Venice A Fulton 2012-07-01T20:00:02Z

Like later western artists including Matisse, what Maulbertsch most loves in his idyll of the "orient" are the blazing, many-hued colours he ascribes to its silks, flowers and rugs. National Gallery buys 18th century painting that praises Islam 2013-06-28T14:42:40Z

“High-dose powders, crystals and tablets with a range of logos, colours and shapes are available, with evidence of production to order and the use of sophisticated and targeted marketing.” Ecstasy in comeback as new generation discovers dance drug 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z

Green is what I want to be, which is a good thing, because being a frog is not like being a chameleon: you don't get a lot of choices in terms of colouring. Kermit: how are the Muppets feeling about their movie comeback? 2012-02-09T20:00:05Z

Outside the Keepmoat, the usual red and white shirts were replaced with brightly coloured T-shirts. Crowds descend for 1D star's debut 2014-02-26T21:41:08Z

He's a larger-than-life character: just over six-foot tall, rotund, affable and with a wardrobe of brightly coloured pinstripe shirts, tailored trousers and the shiniest of dress shoes. Meet Nozinja, the Simon Cowell of Soweto's Shangaan electro scene 2013-07-05T12:00:00Z

“Choose a rainbow of colours and repair each hole in a different one. It looks really beautiful.” Forget fast fashion! Six ways to bring clothes back to life – from darning to stain removal 2020-04-29T04:00:00Z

Bellows had no need to measure himself against the wild natural spectacles that earlier painters – Frederick Church at Niagara Falls, Albert Bierstadt in Yosemite – strained to celebrate on widescreen canvases in gaudily iridescent colours. George Bellows: Modern American Life – review 2013-03-17T00:05:47Z

She was also the first black woman to break through the colour bar at the all-important MTV, which hitherto had played white artists almost exclusively. Whitney Houston 2012-02-12T02:03:31Z

Mogen's true colours are revealed, as he appears defiant even while admitting he did indeed pressure the prosecutor. The Killing III finale: episodes nine and 10 2012-12-15T23:00:00Z

“In TV, the best friend is white and then the second friend is a person of colour,” points out Bakray. Rocks stars: meet the teenage cast of the hot new British film 2020-03-08T05:00:00Z

We need actual change, such as more legal and structural protection for queer people – especially people of colour and trans people. Sasha Velour: ‘Drag is darkness turned into power’ 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

The further we drove away from the ski resorts, the more Utah's true colours began to show. Ski safari in Utah 2010-12-18T00:07:45Z

“They’re like goldfish swimming in a tank where someone keeps adding a tiny bit of colour every day, until they start to see things in a completely different way.” ‘I wish I’d told Dad how much I hated him’ – when children ditch their parents 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

Not that Hollywood is entirely free of gender-bias problems, or bias against women of colour. From La La Land to Jackie, women lead the way at this year’s Oscars 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

They're dated, oddly posed, and rendered in a range of ghastly pastel colours. Mills & Boon covers inspire self-portrait project 2011-03-21T15:43:13Z

"It's not all nicely coloured like in a textbook," said Jayamohan. TV review: One Born Every Minute; Brain Doctors 2013-02-14T07:00:13Z

At the White Cube show the colours are already changing. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

She is identical in every way to the film’s star, Elle Fanning, who watches nearby: same dress, same long blonde hair, the same tiny coloured jewels around their eyes. ‘Movie blood tastes so good’ – on The Neon Demon set with Nicolas Winding Refn 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z

Add the shallot and sea salt and fry, stirring occasionally, for at least 5 minutes until softened, but not coloured. 20 best summer fish recipes: part 1 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

If you look at Gruyaert's study of four men outside a cafe in Cairo, you might think colour is not the issue at all, but how to capture and transmit mood and tone. Henri Cartier-Bresson: who can beat the master of monochrome? 2012-11-07T14:58:41Z

The black, red and white colour scheme is not the most cutting edge, but it's clean and easy to read. Store Wars: Play.com and WOW HD 2012-05-25T06:45:01Z

Kapoor looks fondly at the brilliant colours of the piece he made and sold just two years after graduating from Chelsea School of Art. Artist Anish Kapoor warns arts cuts are 'rolling us back to the Thatcher years' 2011-03-03T17:14:53Z

Their content is as mysterious as their colour. Paul Gauguin: guilty as charged 2010-09-27T20:31:00Z

The sketches explore the spectrum of colours, his blueprints perhaps for the Scotsman Steps. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

It’s a subtle detail, not one you might notice at first, but these clean lines hold the riot of colour in order. Gardens: a riot of colour on the Emerald Isle 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

From a distance, they stand apart from each other, like musical notes of intense colour, gracefully varied, yet repeating a minimalist sequence that might have been composed by Steve Reich. Prickly customers: Martin Creed and Richard Wright in Edinburgh 2010-08-04T20:31:00Z

This band get an entry with a private pressing of their album: 12 copies in colour sleeves and booklet inserts – super-rare. Britain's rarest record – yours for £200,000 2012-11-22T19:30:02Z

They seem more abstract and complex in their arrangement of lines and colours, so much so that I have to ask him more than once what it is exactly that I am looking at. Gary Hume: 'I couldn't hold down a job. That's why I became an artist' 2013-05-18T21:00:01Z

The Five Orchestral Pieces are informed by the mystery and terror of expressionism, and their shifting colours and rejection of thematic repetition or development usher in a new world rooted in uncertainties. LPO/Elder – review 2013-01-24T13:09:24Z

I want the work to convey a sense of Mexico, her colour, her complexity and her culture. The Mexican drug war: a photographer's story 2013-01-25T17:03:36Z

Miss Dixon described viewing the footage featuring its natural colour as being of historical importance. World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

“Sadly not! The makeup artists have been sent home and the women are in fear of their real hair colour coming through.” Would you dare to dye your partner's hair? 2020-05-17T04:00:00Z

So the idea of sticking to one identity – it’s like I don’t care, I’m a shapeshifter, I’m going to fly around and use all the colours, and not brand myself with just one colour.” RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

Smiley faces and 50 shades of bright, bright colours. Last night's TV 2012-12-10T22:00:01Z

All you need do was scoop some water from a mountain stream to release a flood of colour on to the page. Watercolour at Tate Britain - review 2011-02-05T00:05:30Z

For the first time in British Vogue’s supposedly fashion-forward history the magazine features a model of colour wearing a hijab on its cover. Halima Aden – why a model wearing a hijab on the cover of Vogue matters 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z

Sian Edwards, conducting, brought out the clean but glimmering colours of Tippett's score, played with lean energy by the Britten Sinfonia. War Requiem; King Priam; Caligula – review 2012-06-02T23:05:59Z

There are artificial trees, made of steel rods, blossoming with pink or orange lights and the plastic roof of Khan Shatyr now joins the display, lit from within with a spectrum of disco colours. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z

The video for 'LuvU4Lyf' is full of stunning scenery, psychedelic colours and impressive visual sequences. New Band Up North 2012-11-26T17:00:00Z

The piece develops through seven distinctly coloured sections, the most arresting being a slow canon eerily expressed as phantom harmonics by the strings, and concludes, in true Bachian style, with a masterfully harmonised chorale. RLPO/Wigglesworth ? review 2010-11-23T22:20:00Z

As the hall's majestic organ became suffused with colour, its mimicking pipes appeared to turn into giant sticks of Edinburgh retro rock. BBC Prom 54; La fanciulla del West; Joyce DiDonato; Simon Keenlyside; Kronos Quartet 2010-08-28T23:06:00Z

He spoke movingly about the battle to prevent his own experience colouring his professional judgement – not a battle he always wins. Holocaust survivor Thomas Buergenthal silences the Hay crowds 2010-05-31T15:47:00Z

Her hair is a slightly different colour, for starters, and she doesn't look as if she resents every minute of starring in a popular film. Beautiful Creatures – trailer review 2012-09-26T15:50:08Z

There are also some astonishing orchestral colours – a glass harmonica, viola da gamba – that make Written on Skin an essential experience, even recorded. A guide to George Benjamin's music 2013-02-25T12:41:11Z

Morris lived in the house with Jane for five years from 1859, decorating it in a medieval style with bright colours and strong patterns. Painting uncovered at Morris house 2013-08-20T10:05:13Z

Vocally secure and ardent in his lyrical phrasing, if sometimes lacking in variety of colour, he helped carry the evening. Il Trovatore - review 2011-02-27T18:03:39Z

Thanks in part to the computer colouring and the almost unnatural-seeming level of resolution, many of these photographs look like images from electron microscopy. Abstract and affecting, the new Mars pictures are a confrontation with the sublime | Sam Leith 2010-03-21T22:30:00Z

I had been looking for a starting point to a project that was essentially about responding to colour tonality with sound tonality, and I had found it. How Turner's paintings inspired jazz composer Tim Whitehead's new record 2010-09-23T21:45:00Z

The first is that, inexplicably, most of the actors have been made to wear clothes the same colour as the background. Vanity Fair's Hollywood issue: the year Amy Adams missed out on an Oscar 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

Tinting it with colour, adding subtitles and sound effects, music and songs, Moroder made the film seem a little less black and white, slightly less German and a lot less silent. This week's new DVD & Blu-ray 2012-07-20T23:05:00Z

When you've got an idea, when you've got the shapes and the colours, there is a very nice thing that happens organically. Designer Emma Bridgewater's top 10 tips 2013-11-23T00:53:06Z

Signature works include listings made up of newspaper cuttings and his explorations around colour. The drain in Spain: the country's arts crisis 2011-03-27T20:31:00Z

Local artichokes were cooked in their own juices with no salt and no lid, a way of maintaining flavour and colour – which will please those of you who found the discoloration from last week off-putting. Rachel Roddy’s Sicilian pasta with anchovy, lemon and breadcrumbs 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z

We are in the middle of an awards season mired in controversy regarding a lack of diversity, which has in turn ignited a bigger conversation about unequal opportunities for actors of colour. Why Vanity Fair's Hollywood diversity cover fails to conceal industry prejudice 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Related: The portrayal of boxers in film: clever political parables or clichéd bores Intriguingly, though, issues of race and colour are ostensibly incidental to Creed. Creed adds to short list of boxing films starring a black hero 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

The extended caption tells us that this is one of Klein's famous blue pieces, but here the electric charge of colour that he is best known for is absent. Ida Kar: Bohemian Photographer, 1908-1974 ? review 2011-03-13T00:05:32Z

In that sense, I don't think it's legitimate to mock somebody's skin colour or accent. Can you define offensive comedy? 2010-04-09T11:59:00Z

We got a lot of working-class white kids at our gigs who were just the same as us, apart from their skin colour. 'Catalyst bands': What do you mean, you've never heard of them? 2011-07-21T21:01:01Z

But for me, Christie's shock of hair is as golden as the afternoon sun, her blazer dazzlingly candy-striped: in a black and white world, she radiates colour. The big picture: Julie Christie and Dirk Bogarde film Darling, 1964 2011-02-13T00:05:50Z

If roast chestnuts are the defining smell of autumn, orange is surely the season’s colour, both outside and inside the kitchen. Yotam Ottolenghi’s squash recipes 2016-11-12T05:00:00Z

Don't expect systematic theory, or an absence of repetition, but do expect love and loathing expressed in prose close to the 400-nanometer end of the colour spectrum, but precise and exhilarating nonetheless. Best architecture books of 2012 2012-12-01T10:00:01Z

If the president's colour is irrelevant, surely race must have little bearing on the vicissitudes of the heart that beset today's upmarket urban Americans. Race and the romcom: is Think Like a Man realistic or racist? 2012-06-25T09:44:31Z

A Sailboat in the Moonlight is well Ze with a dash of Tom Tom Club: bright, playful funk, from a time when brightness and colour were radical gestures. New band of the day: Escort (No 1,506) 2013-05-03T16:34:13Z

She's been seeing Don as "blue" for all these years – but he's a completely different colour.  Mad Men: series three, episode ten 2010-03-24T22:45:00Z

Hair is a very significant thing for women of colour, especially African women. Nkechi Anele from Saskwatch: 'I've hated my hair for most of my life' 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z

Barocci was a lay member of the Capuchin mendicant preaching order, and he believed that worshippers responded most deeply to colour and sentiment. Federico Barocci: divinity in the details 2013-02-16T09:01:00Z

And while Thompson identifies as a woman of colour, she recently stated in an interview with Net-a-Porter that she was “conscious of the ways in which identity is a creation”. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

"I cannot be deceived in that colour; – that drop of blood is my death-warrant; – I must die." My hero: John Keats by Helen Dunmore 2010-03-27T00:09:00Z

The blotches multiply until a whole shimmering spectrum of colour zigzags across my field of vision until it completely blinds me. ‘A shimmering spectrum of colour’ – the pain and beauty of retinal migraines 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z

Now, blue braids of water are turning into a lake the colour of bluebirds. A mountain of happy memories in British Columbia 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

As befits a comic book story, this galaxy is populated by a rainbow nation of humanoids with bright skin tones, coloured contact lenses, ornate body art, zany hairstyles and even zany eyebrow styles. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

On the subject of race in novels, she said that it is very difficult to get readers "to see that people of colour are not strange or exotic in themselves or to themselves". AUDIO: Zadie Smith on race in fiction 2012-09-06T09:14:46Z

These chemicals do not require refrigeration and amplify the viral DNA to generate a colour change that appears on the cartridge. Two-hour test kit hailed as boon to HIV care in Africa 2016-05-28T04:00:00Z

It is also realistic and concrete, because that is what the sky looks like sometimes – pure solid colour or a gradation of colours. Framing the view: six artists reveal how they choose landscapes 2013-02-02T09:01:01Z

And either that colour really, really flatters her, or that girl actually glows. Oscars 2011: Fashion royalty 2011-02-28T17:10:00Z

The stencilled dots and lines and fillings-in don't get more interesting when you do, and in any case the shrill insistence of the colour and tempo are so shouty you want to hang back. Roy Lichtenstein: too cool for school? 2013-02-18T18:15:39Z

Kids in schools don't really see colour now. Not so black and white: South Africa on stage 2013-07-20T23:06:08Z

So, in the run-up to the birth, the chapel sent Paige colouring sheets to try to help fill the gaps in her day. ‘Pregnancy is a time bomb’ – what I learned about motherhood working in a women’s prison 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

His desire for light and colour took him in 1983 to Mexico City. Phil Kelly 2010-10-06T16:51:00Z

The gorgeously detailed illustrations in their soft colours reminded me of Beatrix Potter's style. Little Grey Rabbit's Noisy Night by Alice Corrie and Angela Swan - review 2012-11-11T12:00:00Z

But in this brilliantly coloured Victorian masterpiece, true work is sweatily physical. Chapman brothers, Von Ribbentrop and Damien Hirst ? the week in art 2011-07-15T08:39:21Z

Sometimes a book persisted as a coloured shadow at the edge of sight, as vague and unrecapturable as something seen in the rain from a passing vehicle: looked at directly it vanished altogether. Alan Hollinghurst bears beautiful 'Stranger's Child' 2011-10-19T23:15:05Z

Mystical figures of many colours, including a black priest dressed in white, evoke a vision of hell. Malangatana Ngwenya obituary 2011-01-17T18:54:55Z

Distracted by the joy of new fatherhood, and perhaps the mystery of his hair colouring, Matthew crashed into an oncoming car in a demonically jolly final scene. Rewind TV: Downton Abbey; Restless; Loving Miss Hatto; The Girl; David Suchet: In the Footsteps of St Paul – review 2012-12-30T00:06:04Z

He continues his journey tonight in the violent Mexican border town of Juarez, before heading to Guatemala, a contrasting city full of colour and even dancing petrol station workers. The World's Most Dangerous Place for Women | The Genius of Omar Khayyam | Cougar Town | The Man Who Cycled the Americas | Watch this 2010-03-30T05:45:00Z

They blossom into blobs and dapples and flecks and fronds of colour, manifestations of the artist's daydreaming delight. Floral fantasies: garden paintings reveal the radicalism of the Impressionists 2010-08-20T12:40:00Z

Both the sweep of their tempo and the environmental friendliness of their technology are evoked by the colours and preposition of "white-through-blue". Poem of the week: Autobiography Without Pronouns by Tiffany Atkinson 2013-04-08T10:09:25Z

The three-part painting is dominated by a line that sighs and falls with faltering resignation, percussive scribbles of colour like memories about to pass, and a thin rain of flicked paint. Joan Mir?: A fine line 2011-04-11T20:30:01Z

The connection between colour and energy is plausible, though. Spectrum colour yoga and meditation – like being stuck inside a traffic light 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z

Special features: The royal yacht features a circular staircase with glass steps that change colour, a mosaic swimming pool and a landing platform for a Blackhawk helicopter. Superyachts and bragging rights: why the super-rich love their ‘floating homes’ 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

It was lighter in colour, it was clear and golden, it had bubbles like champagne – lager. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Primary colours are pumped up, so things are immediately unsettling. From Rosemary's Baby to Suspiria, five directors on cinema's scariest moments 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z

Julie Mehretu's drawings always appear as a kind of rushing, hurrying energy, layer after layer of scratches, dabs, dabbles and judders as she switches from graphite to watercolour, ballpoint pen to bits of coloured tape. White Cube drawing show: The thin grey line 2010-07-20T20:31:00Z

A signature by Priya this week was judged to be “horrible,” not for its taste but the colour of its piping. 'I've never seen tent rage like it!' How Bake Off lost its way 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z

His hair colour didn’t help nor, possibly, his personality. Growing up with The Family: inside Anne Hamilton-Byrne’s sinister cult 2016-11-20T05:00:00Z

But it is the iconic colour photographs taken by astronauts that changed our sense of who and where we are. People of Earth, say cheese! Nasa to take everyone's picture from space 2013-06-19T15:27:19Z

Portrayals of non-alpha white males, in particular, in popular culture, have cast geekdom as “a put-upon status equivalent to the markedness of a marginalised identity such as that of a person of colour”. The new nerds: how Avengers and Game of Thrones made everyone geek out 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Jada Pinkett Smith noted over the weekend that “people of colour are always welcomed to give out awards … even entertain, but we are rarely recognised for our artistic accomplishments”. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

“Hollywood has the power to change things by showcasing a far greater diversity of women’s body types, shapes and skin colours, rather than reinforcing suffocating stereotypes and impossible standards,” says Bates. Hollywood’s grim century of fat-shaming: from Greta Garbo to Chlöe Grace Moretz 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

Don’t be fooled by the bubblegum colours or the whimsical names – raspberry rollercoaster, chocolate indulgence – on display, nerves of steel are required here. Scoop of the year – my time studying at Gelato University 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z

I went to the ballroom and drank cocktails the colour of an illness. ‘I crashed Timothée Chalamet on the red carpet’: my night at the Baftas 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z

We label different areas of the visible spectrum with different colour names when there is a sufficient visual distinction between those areas and others for it to be useful to us. Notes & Queries: Which is the most repeated TV episode? 2012-12-19T16:55:02Z

"I don't recommend that, but I do recommend doing a degree," she says, dressed in her usual dark colours and seated in a room in a Guildford hotel not far from her home. Joan Armatrading: Saint Joan 2010-04-07T20:30:00Z

There's plenty of texture and emotional colour in this one-woman storytelling show, too, and there's even some audience participation. The Birthday of the Infanta ? review 2011-03-27T21:00:04Z

In each, Williams balanced poetic colouring with the passionate drama of the fast finales, where Beethoven's quasi cadenza carried an explosive fire, while the Scriabin presto's myriad agitated strands were crystal clear. Llyr Williams – review 2012-07-18T16:46:24Z

What transports them beyond illustration is Moreau's disturbingly suggestive style: he combines sharp, jewelled details with vague mists of colour in a way that raises his art from depiction to dream. Surrealism? It was always old hat 2011-04-08T09:55:25Z

"I'm really affected by colours, and spend a long time making them work together," says Frith, an artist. Interiors: A riot of colour 2010-05-14T23:25:00Z

The avenue is decorated with topiary giraffes and elephants, and vast swirling carpets of brightly coloured bedding plants. Astana, Kazakhstan: the space station in the steppes 2010-08-08T00:59:00Z

The colour palattes are clearly defined, nostalgia skillfully used, order and buttoned-upness displayed in the house as well as the dialogue. Have you been watching ? Marchlands? 2011-03-03T11:43:27Z

When all is fragrant and starting to darken a little in colour, stir in the drained mograbiah and the lemon juice. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 3 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

The sauce will be bubbling now, the colour of amber and rising up the pears. Nigel Slater: ‘I love the crackle of winter’ 2017-10-08T04:00:00Z

In fact I’m lucky that I don’t fit in, because now I can play with all the toys and all the colours.’” RuPaul: ‘Drag is a big f-you to male-dominated culture’ 2018-03-03T05:00:00Z

What makes this podcast special is the attention to imaginative description: we’re told exactly what colour the sky might be, what the ground might feel like, and it takes our experience from educational to magical. Can lessons from Watergate prepare us for Trump? – best podcasts of the week 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z

But when it was colour, it was harsh, strong; some would say lurid. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z

He also brings real colour to his characters. Your books of the year 2012-12-28T22:55:18Z

When the Hubble telescope photographed the Pillars of Creation, immense columns of star-forming dust in the Eagle nebula, the resulting image was given colours that symbolise different key elements identified in it. Visions of the Universe exhibition reveals full wonder of space images 2013-06-11T13:29:42Z

Yet it's the colour that brings this painting to life – the mysterious vibrations set up by that powerful swathe of red drapery. The scarlet intensity of Domenichino's Saint John 2010-05-18T11:05:00Z

Coming through the door, however, the main thing I noticed was the audience, composed of a broad mix of ages and colours, many of them uninhibitedly dancing or clapping throughout. Can a Fela Kuti musical change British theatre's tune? 2010-10-27T11:31:00Z

He also worked with large scale aluminium sculptures and made furniture, making brightly coloured upholstering for couches and chairs. Austrian artist Franz West dies 2012-07-26T11:15:44Z

Photograph: Dr Robert Beck/Omega Auctions/PA Rare and unpublished early colour photos of the Beatles on tour are to be sold at auction. Beatles colour photos from 1964 up for auction 2013-01-06T17:43:30Z

Like The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s a dystopia that imagines white women in the future suffering from the oppression visited on women of colour. Mad Max: Fury Road is less radical than its B-movie influences 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

His colour rises and he tilts his face to the ceiling, tensing. ‘Narcolepsy isn’t funny’ – living with a sleep disorder 2018-02-25T05:00:00Z

The E flat work, coloured by horn and clarinet, alternates harmonic familiarity with sudden dissonance, its last movement ending with almost shocking, or perhaps jokey, abruptness. OAE/Rattle; Scottish Chamber Orchestra/Manze; A Midsummer Night's Dream – review 2013-02-03T00:05:56Z

This was to celebrate the opening of the institute's rather glorious new space in a converted bathhouse, now hosting an exhibition of Jim Lambie's brightly coloured metal sculptures, some made from crushed suits of armour. Glasgow International's museum of gloves 2010-04-20T21:55:00Z

His recent I-Land project, in which the map is even bigger and in colour, depicts an imaginary Japanese city that echoes Thomas More's Utopia, while simultaneously looking like a future-world from a sci-fi film. Unreal cities 2011-02-24T11:40:04Z

Try colours on a small area of the walls you want to paint and look at them at different times of day. Top 10 tips for interior design 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z

She is philosophical about the influence of skin colour on her career. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z

"You project it through spinning wheels, that's what creates the colour effect using a successive frame system." World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

This year the box office success of films like Straight Outta Compton proved that actors of colour can score with all audiences. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

The ideas he comes up with himself, for instance the colouring on the psychedelic bubbles during the trip sequence, they almost hurt the eyes but they were beautiful. Alan Moore: an extraordinary gentleman ? Q&A 2011-07-25T12:47:07Z

This has an honesty and rugged complexity that makes Twombly's misty colours seem sentimental. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z

This was Cliff's third film and the first in colour. Pop at the pictures: When Cliff Richard ruled the charts 2012-08-23T12:28:59Z

In 1971, that telly went colour, and pop music redressed itself accordingly. Gary Kemp: My teen crush on David Bowie 2010-06-28T20:45:00Z

Indeed, the gulf between the detective's fearsome reputation and the bear-like grouching that colours his relationship with Kirov is a pleasure to rank alongside the richly detailed universe Watkins has fashioned for them both. Thrillers – review roundup 2013-02-22T09:01:00Z

In most cases these Game picture modes don’t just adjust things like colour and contrast to deliver a picture the TV manufacturer thinks is best suited to gaming sources. How To Boost Your PlayStation, Xbox And Wii Gaming Skills In Just 60 Seconds 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

The production company, even as it deplored the introduction of a colour bar, was courting problems by declaring: "All people meeting the age and height requirements are welcome to audition for The Hobbit." The hobbit race row raises a big question: can a one-legged man play Tarzan? 2010-12-05T22:30:00Z

The narrative revisits earlier work, introducing co-workers, girlfriends and acquaintances whose stories filled Pekar's comics, colouring in the life of this compelling American intellectual. Harvey Pekar's Cleveland by Harvey Pekar and Joseph Remnant - review 2012-05-22T12:30:04Z

Of course, these gender-flipped clips all pass this test with flying colours. A male-focused film industry is making women act up 2011-02-11T14:39:50Z

"Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost the end of the day." Winston Churchill's paintings star in an exhibit on the Queen Mary 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

Eliot wrote back two weeks later, saying, “I think that Stephen Spender was only attempting to enumerate oil and water colour pictures and not photographs—I trust so.” The Fraught Friendship of T. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z

Some of the most moving sequences are the intimate moments between parent and child as the adults are forced to explain the brutal realities of policing to children of colour. When They See Us: behind the harrowing Netflix drama about the Central Park Five 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

This year saw eye-catching combinations: Jody Lidgard’s Montessori Centenary garden was a jolly jumble of peonies, dahlias and geums in candy colours. Chelsea flower show 2019: this year's top garden trends 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z

It’s a high that’s not measured out in fractions of a gram and hidden in a jeans pocket, but one that’s covering the streets in brightly coloured latex and chrome capsules. Is the growth in nitrous oxide misuse a laughing matter? 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z

But for the first time, he works here in light: in his installation The Regent Bridge, two "paintings" made of light will change colour with random variations. Edinburgh festival: art comes out of the gallery 2012-08-10T21:54:01Z

Yet the vigour of Gergiev's interpretation, all darting flashes of colour and contrast, was immensely appealing, and the finesse and panache of the playing were second to none. LSO/Gergiev/Kavakos ? review 2011-03-25T22:15:00Z

This outcome is dismaying, partly because it falls neatly into a familiar pattern: a person of colour performing a racially specific form of suffering, the outlier in a sea of white nominees. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

The suggestive colours, ambiguities and painterly richness of their art is a window into the Romantic self.• Gormley goes inside the body, and JRR Tolkien the painter – the week in art 2012-11-30T13:20:26Z

Shot in colour and influenced by King Lear, Ran, his final grand-scale project, was not without professional and personal cost but confirmed his abilities remained intact. Akira Kurosawa: 10 essential films for the director's centenary | Ben Walters 2010-03-23T13:14:00Z

It seems to have more colours in one spot of its surface than Twombly can muster across an entire epic. The great upstager: how Monet made Turner and Twombly look ordinary 2012-06-19T18:33:01Z

In the white neighbourhoods the coloured servants are sent to the backyard at nightfall or up to the roof, because they are forbidden to live in the same house as their masters. David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review 2011-01-25T13:59:01Z

In England there are three orders of membership, who all wear different colours to signify their rank – so lodge stewards wear red, grand officers dark blue and gold and ordinary members sky blue. "Into the Light" 2013-06-05T06:35:14Z

If it had come out in a later era, it might have coloured Reynolds’s career much more than it did: that grisly scene would be endlessly replayed on YouTube and discussed online. Burt Reynolds: the easygoing cannonball of old-school Hollywood manliness | Peter Bradshaw 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z

She also won a Tony for her performance in the Broadway musical No Strings, written especially for her by Richard Rodgers, which highlighted an interracial romance without mentioning colour. Diahann Carroll obituary 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z

Nova Swing was a horse of a different colour. Empty Space: A Haunting by M John Harrison – review 2012-08-02T07:00:00Z

“It doesn’t have anything to do with gender, sex or anything. Good writing is what it’s about, and that’s why you hire people, not because they’re this colour or that gender,” he said. Terry Gilliam says he disagrees with John Cleese's worldview 2019-09-02T04:00:00Z

From the outset we are in good hands: Roberta may be naïve and unworldly, but through her sixth sense – she sees people's hidden colours or auras – we come to understand her prescience, her uncanny intuition. The Beloved by Annah Faulkner – review by Kristina Olsson 2013-06-18T05:28:36Z

When the colour of her skin excluded her from a major concert hall, Anderson, who insisted she had no interest in being a social campaigner, became the centre of a fierce political storm. Calm operatic voice for civil rights 2014-04-09T07:07:48Z

But the irony is it was Margaret who warned her against going to prom, who said everyone would laugh at her, even miss-seeing her pink gown as red, the colour it would eventually, horrifically become. Carrie: the film that captured the true horror of being a teenager 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

His images of English power stations and their environs are done, he says, using "colour exposures ranging from 5 minutes to 5 hours." 'Perspectives' at Foster/White looks at our world through photographers' lenses 2010-09-16T04:01:00Z

While the pasta is cooking, heat the oil in the same saute pan, then add the garlic and chilli, and fry gently without colouring for a minute. Festive recipes from around the world 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z

You just silently indicate what colour, though when you’re on a spiritual voyage, it’s amazing how you stop caring about material stuff. Modern tribes: the silent retreat evangelist 2016-01-09T05:00:00Z

They denote unfamiliar activities, marking the changing colours and textures of life. Author, author: Henry Hitchings on neologisms 2011-02-05T00:05:32Z

On her table, Wills has resin and a paintbox to colour small sections that she has filled to strengthen the ivories. The Begram ivories: Rescuing Afghanistan's lost history 2011-02-27T00:05:25Z

Fascinating facts abound: Victorians favoured gloomy parlours in part because dark colours didn't show the soot. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-04-13T06:59:00Z

Across the country, housing was the most routine area in which a colour bar was applied – which explained the concentration of minorities in inner cities, as these were the only homes available to them. Roy Hackett: the civil rights hero who stood in front of a bus – and changed Britain for ever 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z

Nicklesen added that police suspect the group took 2C-E, known in Germany as Aquarust, a drug which heightens perceptions of colours and sounds and in higher doses triggers hallucinations, psychosis and severe cramps. Mystery surrounds hallucinatory chaos at German homeopathy conference 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

"They are often printed full colour, and the economics doesn't allow for a huge advance to the author." The graphic novel's spectacular rise: from kids' comics to the Costa prize 2012-11-23T18:45:09Z

As well as Casement, the Germans sent 20,000 guns on a ship flying false Norwegian colours; they were never landed. The Dream of the Celt by Mario Vargas Llosa – review 2012-06-08T21:55:06Z

Whether depicting typists lined up on a row of computers, people sauntering past shop fronts or milling about in museum foyers, Korty's use of colour and line renders everything in synch. Artist of the week 81: David Korty 2010-04-01T10:22:00Z

Two of the works – Blue I, II, III and Mural Paintings I, II, III – are vivid, intense fields of bright colour, which will hang opposite each other in Tate Modern. Joan Mir? Tate retrospective reunites triptychs 2011-04-11T14:23:12Z

In the centre of the image, and seeming to threaten the foreground of the scene, is a colour postcard showing a train emerging from a tunnel – its edge obscuring the face of the patient. Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011-01-29T00:06:00Z

For years I coloured your world in hues you didn't recognise; never your island, always your skerry – "unable to see the romance of the thing for the thing itself". Saturday poem: The Sour House 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

The crowds looked calm; no haggling witnessed, just murmured conversations about the artists' intent, the fineness of execution, the remarkable play of colour, the conceptual daring, etc. ArtsBeat: A Civilized Preview From the Frieze Art Fair 2012-10-10T13:58:46Z

Instead of providing an invisible barrier between the public and the precious objects held in display cases, Hefti's glass is vividly coloured in hues of deep pink, blue and gold. Artist of the week 176: Raphael Hefti 2012-02-09T13:32:00Z

"There's a greater variety of colours and shapes in this album, a more dynamic sound," says Philippakis. Horsing around 2010-05-06T07:26:00Z

The houses feature red-brick bases with alternating coloured first floors. How social housing in Manchester has reinvented the back-to-back 2012-12-18T15:39:19Z

Mostly you end up with a muddy grey-green colour. Jon McGregor: My desktop 2012-06-20T09:06:32Z

Take a stroll alongside the pretty, coloured facades of the rue Félix Faure with their intertwined plant designs and embellished lettering. 10 of the best European cities for art nouveau 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

"They knew colour film was going to be very desirable and there was a big commercial incentive." World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

It was tested to make sure it was sweatproof and exactly the right colour to match the costume. The Dark Knight Rises: the team behind the trilogy's epic finale 2012-07-13T23:01:00Z

While 'fun fur' now means synthetic fur, up until the 1960s it meant cheap fur from animals such as rabbit, which was often dyed various colours. Dictionary compilers create endangered words list 2011-08-21T18:25:27Z

Admittedly, I've only watched six episodes, from the early 1970s, just after the show started airing in colour. Your next box set: Dixon of Dock Green 2012-07-19T19:00:01Z

"His anatomy may sometimes be a bit rubbish, but overall the quality of his work is amazing – the delicacy of the colouring, the grandeur of the composition," says Paine. Greenwich's Painted Hall shipshape after restoration 2013-05-02T15:14:40Z

"I never liked doing colour," she says now. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

I would have preferred more boldness and colour. Why We Build by Rowan Moore – review 2013-01-06T00:08:47Z

Keep it on a medium heat and allow the skin to crisp and colour. 20 best Middle Eastern recipes: part 3 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z

US television network Epix will screen a colour version of the Oscar-nominated comedy drama Nebraska on Sunday, despite director Alexander Payne having previously said he hoped nobody would ever see it, reports Variety. US TV to screen Alexander Payne's hated colour version of Nebraska 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

I think diversity is more than a colour palette. Fox Searchlight pays $17.5m for slavery drama The Birth of a Nation 2016-01-26T05:00:00Z

"When we meet/ in the midnight hour/ country girl," it begins, "I will bring you night flowers/ coloured like your eyes/ in the moonlight/ in the midnight/ hour." Hail, Hail, Rock'n'Roll 2011-08-04T21:00:02Z

With the bold use of colour and framing, as well as Vitti's beguiling voguishness, it still looks ahead of its time. This week's new films 2012-07-27T23:05:00Z

Cotman's colours got brighter, and he would later enrich them with rice paste, but this picture, made when he was 25, is surely his greatest work. The 10 best watercolours 2011-04-09T23:05:56Z

It shows – whether in the cool, small, black and white images of city streets, or in the later, and often very large, colour digital prints. Thomas Struth ? review 2011-07-06T17:42:12Z

In contrast to Shakespeare's red-blooded narrative, however, Peony Pavilion is told through a rarefied language of colours, symbols and visions. National Ballet of China ? review 2011-08-15T17:15:01Z

“One of the biggest things we changed is the way our show deals with colour,” he continues. Elisabeth Moss on The Handmaid’s Tale: 'It is a feminist story' 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

Look, you are in your mid-60s, with stents in your heart and a daily pharmaceutical regime in a myriad glowing colours. Terry Pratchett: signing books was nearly the death of me 2012-11-24T08:00:53Z

Since most people couldn't see the colour of the liquid they were drinking, it presumably didn't matter much what these beers looked like. Mark Miodownik: an obsession with materials 2013-05-24T15:53:00Z

Hopkins delivers them all with such care and attention to their meaning that it seems churlish to want a bit more variation in colour from his singing. Vaughan Williams: Songs of Travel; Glick: South of North, etc - review 2010-12-16T23:15:00Z

Munch's variations on the colour red are among the most staggering things he does. Edvard Munch: the ghosts of vampires and victims 2012-06-22T21:55:13Z

He had made no attempt to hide his fear that a colour magazine would cheapen the quality of his paper. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

The proportions of each shape are also very specific, as are the thickness of the stretchers and the relationship of one colour to another – it's all about the details. My hero: Ellsworth Kelly by AM Homes 2013-05-03T15:05:01Z

The one-time child prodigy's music coloured some of Hollywood and Broadway's most important works. Marvin Hamlisch, composer for Broadway and cinema, dies 2012-08-07T15:25:25Z

“There was nobody of colour in that group to say: ‘You know what, this might not be a good idea. Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

We arrive at a gallery full of large colour images hung in white frames on a white wall background. Model, muse and memorable handshake 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Though it's less singular than the later music, the suite is a wonderfully accomplished score, full of rich, effulgent colours that positively glowed under the generous sweep of Brabbins' performance. BBCNOW/Brabbins – review 2013-01-10T13:56:33Z

Matisse is a great colourist throughout his work but in Jazz, with its flat, even toned colours, Matisse the draftsman and Matisse the colourist find their perfect harmony. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

Fischer's inventiveness extends and enriches the already magnificent colours available from this orchestra. Budapest Festival Orchestra/Fischer – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-27T11:27:14Z

Its building blocks are geometric oddities in zingy colours, spread across painting, sculpture, drawing and the exhibition catalogues that he regularly designs himself. Artist of the week 106: Thomas Scheibitz 2010-09-22T15:47:00Z

Attempts to sell it in French supermarkets, however, fell foul of the country’s regulations: the bottles were labelled in English and failed to explain how the wine got its colour. Allez les bleu vin? Spanish man hopes to sell blue wine in France 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

Elsewhere, two of 2018’s most anticipated movies have female actors of colour front and centre. Wonder women: how female action heroes will blast cinema screens in 2018 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z

She thought the villager's curiosity was aroused by her colour. Rewind TV: Jamie's Dream School; Attenborough and the Giant Egg; The Promise 2011-03-06T00:09:51Z

There were colour films but they are not what we call 'natural colour' - producers were painting on the surface of the film from a very early time. World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

In the arts of speech, of rhetoric, of gesture, of colour, of light, of movement, of proportion, of speed, of darkness, of stillness, of silence. The Young Vic hits middle age ? and discovers some grey areas 2010-10-20T12:04:00Z

There came back a little drawing in coloured crayons of an old man's face, along with a friendly dedication. Pablo Picasso and his influence on British art 2012-02-10T22:55:13Z

It’s an experience that leaves him looking increasingly beaten up as Manhattan’s showy autumn colours damp down and winter creeps in. My streaming gem: why you should watch Nobody's Watching 2020-05-11T04:00:00Z

Her version of the aesthetic feels very different from James’s – her walls are painted dark colours, for instance. I can't believe it's not clutter: maximalism hits our homes 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z

From a compositional standpoint, though, wildfire’s colouring suggest a copper compound. Encyclopaedia Westerosa: the biggest Game of Thrones mysteries, solved 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z

By the mid-19th century, the anatomy of the vocal tract was well understood, and singers responded by dropping the larynx to achieve a voice of greater strength and colour. Voice-overs 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

The flashes of bright colour from the games machines and signs in the background animate it with uneasily strong light. MI5's uselessly dehumanised crop of the 7/7 bombers picture 2011-02-22T16:14:44Z

Photograph: Nick Cunard/Rex Features Where are the UK's stories about teenagers of colour? More calls for books about non-white children 2013-06-19T09:28:49Z

A book about colour, irony and what Ghirri called "hieroglyphs", both obvious and elliptical. The best photography books of 2012: an alternative selection 2012-12-21T16:01:33Z

You sense the depth in the woman's character here, and again, the opal's colours seem the perfect symbol of her complexity: simple sugar-white, luxurious gold and that delicate, grandmother-ish, Victorian violet. Poem of the week: 'My Grandmother's Opal' by Grevel Lindop 2010-12-27T09:00:03Z

When I got through the queue to Warhol, I placed eight differently coloured Smarties down. Smarties with Andy Warhol 2013-02-16T23:30:01Z

Maizels is an illustrator and artist whose designs are drenched in colour. Drawn to success: how to bring out your inner artist 2018-08-08T04:00:00Z

Many different-coloured LEDs can be joined together to vary the shade of the light they produce, enabling the colour and intensity of a lighting system to be adjusted according to the time of day. How modern life gets in the way of sleep 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

She was able to deliver each word and phrase with a rich palette of colours, and to use the characteristic rapid vibrato to sing a wide range of parts. Giulietta Simionato obituary 2010-05-07T15:19:00Z

One of the things he finds most offensive about Trump is his attitude to people of colour. Tommy Chong: 'We were always high. That was the job' 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z

Buoyant optimism is also the order of the day in another Disney title, Queen of Katwe, also a fact-based tale of a woman of colour succeeding against the odds. La La Land, Hidden Figures and films that squeezed happiness out of 2016 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z

His landscapes in oils are marked by a delicacy of touch and colour, a purity and fluidity of line, that are very seductive. Wu Guanzhong obituary 2010-07-07T17:42:00Z

On one particularly tight day, I had a five-hour bike ride, a haircut and colour booked in, and needed to be ready to pick up the children by 4pm. 'Toddler twins, a demanding job... why not take on an Ironman?' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z

But finding a donor of the same gender, skin colour and hand size was like finding a needle in a haystack. Experience: I had a double hand transplant 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z

Night Shift attempts to fight this problem by changing the colour of the screen to a warmer, reddish hue at dusk and resetting to the usual blue tones in the morning. Does Apple’s new Night Shift app really give you a better night’s sleep? 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z

There are works that echo Warhol in their use of primary colours, brand logos and press photography. Colour me beautiful 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z

First, and in contrast with, say, monochrome footage of the 1953 coronation, Britain is painted in unashamedly varied colours. What's typically British now? Tears, tents and no spiders 2012-06-01T19:30:01Z

He revisited Fats Waller's stride style in a technical tour de force in the second half, along with a dedication to the late drummer Paul Motian that mirrored Motian's light touch and flashes of colour. Fred Hersch 2012-10-05T16:57:57Z

Not all of Jacobs’s application of colour theory went according to plan. Making a splash: a rental flat that’s awash with colour 2020-02-29T05:00:00Z

So I decided to learn about a range of sexual experiences that my new long-term partner and I could share that would be as varied as all the colours in a huge colouring box. Orgasm addicts, sex doesn’t have to be red hot 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

"The guys just talked about their poo all day," she says, "what colour it was." Kidnap revisited: how I met my former captor 2011-01-26T08:00:02Z

First there were black-and-white drawings to colour in, then puzzles. A quick curtain call. Then bed: Child actors in adult theatre 2010-05-05T20:30:00Z

My lasting impression was of the kind of colour I've come to associate with migraines, a dull brightness that makes everything look like old sweet wrappers. Six novelists on their favourite second artform 2013-04-27T07:00:18Z

Such is the sensitivity to matters of race, when another British actor Benedict Cumberbatch talked of "coloured" actors in an American interview, there was a storm of protest. Selma creators on Cumberbatch quote 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z

Not Nick Clegg and the Tories, but William Gladstone and his concern about Homer's use of colour in The Iliad and The Odyssey. Through the Language Glass: How Words Colour Your World by Guy Deutscher 2010-06-11T23:14:00Z

Locations include Summerland Park for autumn colour, and Rabbit Ears for wildlife. Cliff camping in Colorado: postcards from the ledge 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z

Part of the fascination of his book is its biographical or prosopographical colour. La Folie Baudelaire by Roberto Calasso, translated by Alastair McEwen - review 2012-12-28T22:55:02Z

That is doubtless an overemotional interpretation of a decision that MI5 – while at a loss to convincingly explain it – suggests was probably taken to conceal where and how the colour picture was shot. MI5's uselessly dehumanised crop of the 7/7 bombers picture 2011-02-22T16:14:44Z

We should be able to answer the first without too much trouble — if you like it, you like it; yet ongoing disputes around the second tend to colour all judgments. ‘That show was as white as it gets!’ Sex and the City’s problematic legacy 2018-04-21T04:00:00Z

He made increasing use of rare colours, sometimes to excess. Odilon Redon: Prince du R?ve - review 2011-04-12T13:01:37Z

What colour are these items in the illustrations in the book? Hats and Scarves - quiz 2012-12-26T09:00:07Z

In luscious hard candy colours and glossy surfaces, their elegant interplay of mirrors, metal, resin and rubber could be abstract sculpture or designer decor. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The monochrome flames engulfing the monk are somehow more a matter for the imagination than they would be in gory colour. Malcolm Browne: man behind iconic burning monk photograph dies aged 81 2012-08-29T06:00:07Z

An extremely pretty extra-terrestrial, mind, with huge eyes and small features framed by a head of expensively coloured and rolled blonde hair. Amanda Seyfried: 'I would lay naked on the street for Les Misérables' 2013-01-11T13:30:00Z

“It’s lovely to see it come to life when they transplant it,” Strong says, “because it goes in that colour and then pinks up.” One day. Six operations. Three kidneys. The story of an organ donor chain 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Zoo Quest was broadcast in black and white, but the original colour footage, which was later discovered by BBC archivists, is beautiful. The real David Attenborough 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z

The colour of money: Sotheby's is selling Mondrian's Composition with Red, Yellow and Blue. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z

Yet, as body positivity grew in popularity, women of colour, women with disabilities and transwomen, were pushed from the spotlight by a more conventional beauty ideal. The rise of the body neutrality movement: ‘If you’re fat, you don’t have to hate yourself’ 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z

I grew up being despised for my darker colouring. Shades of Black: how readers responded to our series on the colorism taboo 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

But in Britain, black people are far more likely to enter into interracial relationships than other people of colour. 'As a black woman I'm always fetishised': racism in the bedroom 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z

Faces are criss-crossed with coloured skeins, or patterned in curves and circles until they are barely visible. Maurizio Anzeri's embroidered photographs make patterns of the past 2013-05-09T13:30:01Z

Taking advantage of the "golden hours" may not be as crucial in winter, but the rich colours at the ends of the day are still worth taking advantage of. Northern exposures: how to take a perfect winter wildlife photograph 2010-12-02T10:52:00Z

George Bernard Shaw, who frequently posed for his own pictures, often experimented with lighting and early colour printing. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover man behind myth 2011-07-05T12:25:40Z

"All the arrangements, textures, all the colours and the way you mix them… It's frequencies instead of pigments." Happy to be melancholy 2011-04-02T23:02:01Z

The format was similar to Sykes and A …, but the show was in colour and featured bigger stars. Eric Sykes: a life in clips 2012-07-04T14:44:02Z

"Its strong, fauve colours and powerful composition, combined with its extraordinary provenance, will be extremely appealing to today's international buyers." Rediscovered art to be auctioned 2010-04-23T11:09:00Z

Photograph: Johner Images/Alamy A drysalter was a trader in salts, chemicals and dyes and these poems seem steeped in a single colour: it is clear they all proceed from the same pen. Drysalter by Michael Symmons Roberts – review 2013-04-22T08:00:04Z

The cleaning and retouching of the blackened cross has revealed individual brush strokes and the bright colour of the lapis lazuli used by the artist. British art restorer uncovers a lost Giotto masterpiece 2010-10-23T23:07:00Z

The old dormitory towns for coloured workers are now surrounded by shanty towns, only inhabited by blacks. David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review 2011-01-25T13:59:01Z

This is the only place in the world where tarbosaurus skeletons are found in great numbers and the dinosaur's off-white bones were the same colour as other dinosaur remains found in the Gobi desert. On the trail of the dinosaur rustlers 2013-01-19T20:00:04Z

The road beyond was lined on both sides with brand new family-planning propaganda signs that were the same rectangular shape and blue-and-white colouring as the surrounding traffic signs. China's barbaric one-child policy 2013-05-06T06:00:01Z

There's a colour you get when you mash together all the strands in a pack of Plasticine, a sort of brown-purple with pink and white flecks. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z

In Alice in Wonderland, her only personality trait is “likes the colour red”. The ‘perfect body’ is a lie. I believed it for a long time and let it shrink my life 2016-05-08T04:00:00Z

When the salesgirl suggests she might not be able to wear them together, Lise declares: "People here in the north know nothing about colour." Looking back at the Lost Booker: Muriel Spark 2010-05-13T14:52:00Z

"We've got to get every race, creed, colour, gender into one room, lighten up and laugh at ourselves." Comedy gold: Lisa Lampanelli's Take It Like a Man 2013-03-21T15:04:07Z

But still the biggest change has been moving to colour television. 'It is fantastic, better than travelling to the moon' – David Attenborough returns to the Great Barrier Reef 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z

On a prosaic level, it's a visually spectacular show, the stage bathed in vivid colours, a dozen video screens suspended above the band, shifting and changing positions with each song. Radiohead at O2 2012-10-09T11:27:18Z

Rather, he hated the idea that a work of art could be simply reduced to mere aesthetics, to patterns of colours and shapes. Victorian social reformers saw beauty, truth and goodness as one. We no longer do 2012-10-12T18:00:01Z

If Jenner understands the importance of the work of community leaders like those at Hips, it is my hope that she will also use her position to spread financial capital to transgender communities of colour. I Am Cait panel review - five trans writers give their verdict 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z

Rogers rarely speaks of aesthetics, yet his notebooks brim with spidery scrawls, in a rainbow of coloured biros, about beauty. Richard Rogers: the world as it could be 2013-07-15T17:45:01Z

The white nationalists are very upset that white women are not having as many children as women of colour and therefore hastening the day when we will no longer be a majority white country. Gloria Steinem meets Gloria Allred: ‘Donald Trump has made us woke’ 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z

Rock artists were using the new platform of colour television to be more creative than the previous decade of the smartly dressed Beatles. Freddie Mercury 30 years on – remembering the theatrical, eccentric genius 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

He's been making a living from mainly Pop Art-style creations for 10 years but admits he spent the early years working mainly in back and white due to a lack of confidence about colour. Seeing art with different eyes 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

She took the view that colours float, move and breathe, and her abstractions are landscape-based just as the work of the St Ives painters was, though she claimed no adherence to them. Pip Benveniste obituary 2010-09-16T18:15:00Z

The toolset is at once accessible and comprehensive, with different pencil and brush types to choose from, while an artist's palette allows the user to mix colours to precisely the shade they're after. Art Academy 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

The Scotsman's music critic Conrad Wilson was a cantankerous monitor of Drummond's music programme, and took to "dressing down" for concerts, often sporting a brightly coloured ballpoint pen on a chain. Iain Crawford obituary 2011-08-04T17:21:28Z

Suddenly, the green in this room flares into yellow, then the colour dies. How the Hayward Gallery's Light Show monkeys with your eyeballs 2013-01-28T18:33:05Z

Sporting an array of cheerful colours, her latest works are an anthropomorphic troupe resembling walking sticks, lamps and hat stands. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

"Wrists" in line four seem to salute the freedom but twist it into something else; "the colour of blood" shadows the second stanza. Poem of the week: Jasmine by John Eppel 2010-07-12T13:28:00Z

He blew up a regular balloon and pasted some hair of the same colour on to it, like papier-mache. Photographer Vee Speers's best shot 2010-05-12T21:15:00Z

Reviewers called The Cookbook Collector "a feast of love" that "makes us care;" they called it "enchanting and sensuous", and "flush with warmth and colour". How to turn a great American novel into a Great one 2011-02-17T09:49:44Z

When he was young, Freud was a very precise draughtsman; in his later works, he rejects prosaic accuracy and instead paints flesh in mottled, powdered, massed, pockmarked, misted attacks of colour. Lucian Freud storms the Pompidou Centre 2010-03-16T21:35:00Z

He would combine cartoon colouring and an astonishing ability to jump large distances with an unquenchable thirst for social retribution and violent death. Charlie Brooker answers your questions: 'I get angry to amuse myself' 2013-02-06T19:01:10Z

After all, it pointed out, home-computer sales had gone through the floor.AC lt's hard to imagine now, but the advent of Sunday colour magazines changed the way we looked at the world. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

All 10 films have at least one named character of colour in the cast. How to fix Hollywood's race problem 2016-01-18T05:00:00Z

As with the first film, the visual style is an ultra-stylised postmodern imagining of noir crime fiction, with luminous blacks and whites flecked by flashes of colour – and lots of rain-slicked leather. Sin City sequel poster with Eva Green deemed too risqué by US censor 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

The raw black of newsprint images contrasts starkly with Warhol's potent painted colours to harrow the onlooker. The tricky art of a state funeral 2013-04-10T13:59:23Z

Speaking of titles, the rusty parchment colour scheme recalls Firefly and like all the references here it trades on a superficial level. Outcasts: season one, episode three 2011-02-14T22:00:00Z

Crucially, the vocal lines manage to combine lyricism with character in a way that is direct yet never simplistic; underneath, the complex and substantial orchestral writing is charged with vivid colour and momentum. Bliss 2010-09-03T20:31:00Z

The unfinished book of sketches and text, devoted to the cheerful invertebrate, was discovered among Scarry's papers, and his son Huck, also an artist, is colouring and completing it. Richard Scarry unfinished manuscript to be published 2013-04-11T11:49:15Z

I’m telling you, nobody of colour was in the room when someone said: ‘This is a great idea.’ Spike Lee: ‘Black men are still viewed as predators’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

I noticed the stone because of the subtlety of its colour against the sand, its light green with veins of white. The Empty Family 2010-08-27T23:04:00Z

The kinds of roles being written for people of colour over the past decade have begun to expand to encompass a wider range of experiences. Slaves, nannies, and maids: Oscars value women of colour – in subservient roles 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z

Ashley says: “You could go to a club and look at their calendar for the year, you wouldn’t see two women of colour ... they kept us separate.” ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images Monopolising the red carpet tonight isn’t, oddly, American Horror Story’s ensemble cast but the colour black. Emmys 2015: winners and performances – as it happened 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

In fact, some of the most gorgeous "colours", such as the iridescent patches on butterfly and bird wings have no pigments at all. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

It has also acknowledged the limits of its own research, noting the work of, for example, Roxane Gay, who undertook a similar tally last summer for writers of colour, which she published in The Rumpus. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z

In the perfectly scaled space of a concert hall like St George's in Bristol, though, Uchida's playing becomes even more compelling and directly communicative, with every detail and every keyboard colour registering without apparent effort. Mitsuko Uchida 2010-09-26T21:15:00Z

As a means of probing into the souls of its subjects, the questionnaire was a blunt instrument, and there was endless suspicion about the true colour of the German citizenry. The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook – review 2013-05-31T09:00:02Z

Flurries of punches and kicks quickly evolve to become elaborate special moves that fill the screen with colour. Marvel vs Capcom 3 ? review 2011-02-20T00:05:23Z

Today, she is straight out of the last days of disco: her high-waisted, flared jeans are tighter than tight; her vertiginous velvet platforms are encrusted with coloured crystals. Saoirse Ronan: ‘I’ve played a lot of weird people. I have!’ 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Cook them over a medium-low heat until they soften and start to colour. Make a meal with any number of eggs | The egg bible 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Perhaps because she is self-taught, she has carved out her own distinctive style: dangerously committed performances coloured by prewar Berlin cabaret and a childhood spent listening to her French mother's Jacques Brel records. Camille O'Sullivan: From cabaret to chaos 2012-08-13T17:44:54Z

"Guys, the colour is clear, to confirm?" says Chris, down the phone. The Apprentice final: make mine a Stella 2010-12-19T22:14:00Z

“So often with my early experiences with characters of colour onscreen, they first had to reconcile their race and then reconcile their gender before stories were allowed to be told about them,” says Rothwell. Insecure’s Natasha Rothwell on being 2018’s funniest character 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z

Until recently, the accepted view was that colour categorisation was arbitrary, with distinctions rooted in culture and language. The vision thing: how babies colour in the world 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z

What we are reluctant to admit is that culture would have no colour without pretension. In defence of pretentiousness | Dan Fox 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z

Among foreign diplomats in South Africa, he won unrivalled access to representatives of every ideological stripe and skin colour. Much to be thankful for 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

Just before they start to colour, add the garlic, then the paprika and the grated lemon zest. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 3 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

For me that whiteness was the colour of a 20mg Cipralex pill – a close cousin of Prozac – taken at the breakfast table. Does Prozac help artists be creative? 2013-05-19T06:00:00Z

The texture and colour of the deer's coat have been carefully depicted, even its white bottom. Ice age art at the British Museum was crafted by 'professional' artists 2013-01-24T15:02:19Z

The colours gleamed, the music crashed and Powell and Pressburger's antique treasure put most of its modern rivals to shame. Venice film festival: thunder clouds and silver linings 2014-09-06T04:00:00Z

Most likely to: Dream in colour, with especially vivid blood reds. New band of the day ? No 862: Twin Sister 2010-09-07T16:06:00Z

The same way we didn't want people to mock skin colour and Jamaican accents – which is why Jim Davidson and Bernard Manning were removed from national television. Jim Carrey takes aim at NRA – and Rowan Atkinson's brother isn't amused 2013-03-26T17:02:03Z

Of course, what colour to paint your house is the ultimate privileged property-owner problem, but the decision affects everyone around it. Forget the greige age: the case for painting your house any colour you like 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z

The Dunkirk director is a soft and unhurried speaker, but his enthusiasm for colour grading, film stocks and projection equipment is borderline obsessive. Christopher Nolan at Cannes: 'I want the young to sit in awe at 2001: A Space Odyssey' 2018-05-12T04:00:00Z

Leiter, one of the pioneers of colour photography, now lives – apparently perfectly contentedly – in a New York apartment stacked with the images he has accumulated over 70 years of work. TV highlights 02/04/2013 2013-04-02T06:00:05Z

He was responsible for the increasing use of foam latex in television makeup; another advancement for which he can take credit was the development of makeup shades for the first colour TV broadcasts. Dick Smith obituary 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Stir in well with a good pinch of salt – the roux will seize up and darken to the colour of solid dark chocolate. Jacob Kenedy’s recipe for a Louisiana-style turkey gumbo ya ya | Christmas leftover recipes 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z

The subtext of the book is how language colours reality. You can be a wine snob too! 2013-01-02T12:45:00Z

Bird-singing contests were held in the parks, with betting on which brightly coloured bird would sing the longest. The inescapable power of architecture 2012-08-11T23:05:42Z

Is it harder to use shadows as effectively in colour? Clip joint: Driving away 2012-08-29T10:59:15Z

He was deputy editor at the launch of the Observer's colour magazine in 1964. Hilary Rubinstein 2012-06-14T14:56:25Z

Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse The tormented Harry Haller is lured into a cinema by its "dazzling lights and huge coloured posters". Ten of the best visits to the cinema 2010-05-14T23:32:00Z

When the Oxford student newspaper once asked him in a survey, “What is the price of a Big Mac?,” he responded: “Oh, about £2,000 with a colour screen.” Review: ‘Brief Candle in the Dark,’ by Richard Dawkins, Puts Intellect Over Intimacy 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Particularly in the case of long-form TV that Netflix itself champions, knowing an ending or key plot point doesn’t necessarily spoil it, but colours it in a new shade. The Netflix effect: why don't we care about spoilers any more? 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z

When they are golden on the underside, turn over and lightly colour the other side. Nigel Slater’s potatoes and peppers recipe | Nigel Slater 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Rather than serious inner-city pressure, this Brit urban comedy goes for colour and caricature, and the result is refreshing, if hit-and-miss. This week's new films 2011-03-19T00:05:59Z

In Birth, the muted colours of the opulent Upper West Side setting in New York conveyed a cloistered world that was polite but bloodless – a perfect backdrop for the story's messy, unruly emotions. Harris Savides 2012-10-12T13:11:36Z

According to this theory, Pollock – whose paintings are planes of colour – stands as a metaphysical revealer of what painting truly is. Clement Greenberg: the art critic who refuses to flatline 2011-03-11T15:12:34Z

His music may challenge by its complexity, but it will also charm with its beautifully turned lines, its conversations, its fine colours, its wit. Elliott Carter remembered: 'Music seemed to erupt from his very being' 2012-11-06T18:41:42Z

Bamert has a clear and unfussy manner on the podium, which helped bring out the details of a programme that was particularly strong in orchestral colour. Prom 32: EUYO/Bamert 2010-08-10T11:11:00Z

Because of his lighter skin, Noah was viewed as “coloured” by society and at school, a racial classification shared by no other member of his black family. How Trevor Noah went from biracial youth in S. Africa to leading light on U.S. TV 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Running like a braid of coloured water through the whirls and eddies of The Sea Inside is the author's inner struggle. The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare – review 2013-05-30T06:30:01Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton The delicate colours of theorbos, viola da gamba, harpsichord and recorders are swallowed up in the cavernous Coliseum but still managed to sound sensuous. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z

Not for the kaleidoscopic, psychedelic animation, but because someone had dyed her Marlene Dietrich curls two entirely separate colours. Goldfrapp tell tales in cinema project 2014-02-27T02:04:21Z

It’s an issue a lot of women battle with, and I think women of colour battle with it more. What women want: a vivid portrait of female lives around the world 2017-10-29T04:00:00Z

A builder in Bangkok, Thailand selects the coloured tiles for a temple roof. In pictures: The Art of Building 2012-08-16T13:07:00Z

Helena Newman, a Sotheby's vice-chairman, said after the sale: "The strong, fauve colours and powerful composition of the Derain painting, combined with its extraordinary provenance, proved extremely appealing to tonight's bidders." Manet self-portrait fetches record ?22m at Sotheby's auction 2010-06-23T09:35:00Z

Whether in graceful compositions of sun-faded, coloured sugar paper or large frescoes built up from layers of watercolour wash, his simple geometric arrangements telescope into space-changing illusions. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Thanks to its vivid colour palette, Utopia looks beautiful. Utopia: inside Channel 4's new unsettling thriller 2013-01-12T06:00:00Z

This is the earliest natural colour film in the world, not just the UK. World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

While his needly voice lacks colour, his lyrics are shot through with vibrant images: of a dreaming lion; a woman swimming naked surrounded by birds; an arm draped over a shoulder like a rag. Brazos: Saltwater – review 2013-05-23T21:40:01Z

It's as if by performing these works on a very different instrument from the usual modern concert grand she's discovering a new range of possibilities, a new palette of keyboard colours. Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 – review 2013-05-01T15:40:38Z

Corny as it was, the programme proved effective in putting forward the idea that there are no colour boundaries in a family when it comes to love. Gary Coleman obituary 2010-05-28T23:57:00Z

"If you hear any of his orchestral music - his symphonies, concertos, or his song-cycle Correspondances - you're immersed in an irresistible kaleidoscope of instrumental colour and, above all, a world of heightened feeling," said Service. French composer Dutilleux dies at 97 2013-05-22T14:11:20Z

Piercing, cherry-sized tomatoes, such as Sungold and Gardener’s Delight, or chunks of sweet steamed pumpkin offer more than just jewel colours to lift the spirits. 20 best vegetarian recipes: part 3 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

On top, my favourite colour combination: the Victorian pink of crystallised rose petals with the tender green of chopped pistachios. The 20 best Nigella Lawson recipes: part 4 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z

The thinking is that all the necessary colour will be provided by players, crowds and the human drama enacted in these exquisite sports machines. Perfect pitch: Cape Town's Green Point stadium 2010-05-30T20:30:00Z

I’m hoping that it opens the doors for more writers of colour – especially black writers – who have stories to tell, whether that’s about being an astronaut or a chef. Kayode Ewumi: 'I would love to be in the Atlanta writers' room' 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z

Full of great thoughts about colour and Kansas and fantasy, and how there really is no place like home, because no place is home. Word and image: my top 10 books on film 2012-05-18T21:55:09Z

The bewildering maze of colours disorientates our focus and appears to shimmer all about. Exhibitionist: The week's art shows in pictures 2012-12-06T12:00:00Z

She notes the arms and legs in the trees, the colour of blood on sand and the scent of thyme on the wind all commingling. PJ Harvey: Let England Shake ? review 2011-02-13T00:15:33Z

Add the garlic and fresh chilli, then cook for about 2 minutes – don’t let the garlic colour. Four different meals from one batch of beetroot | Get ahead 2015-06-27T04:00:00Z

“Outside a small village restaurant were these three beautiful octopus, hanging from a clothes line with brightly coloured clips, as though they were freshly washed laundry.” OFM awards 2014 best food photo: Irina Wang 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Maybe putting up with bigotry a bit too much – not getting upset when people call him coloured is one thing, but did he really need to shake the BNP guy's hand? Doctor Who and Cameron's Black Tory 2010-06-07T05:45:00Z

Even when it's white, Batchelor's art is preoccupied with colour, and all the pleasures to be found in the everyday world. The best art exhibitions and events for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

The use of colour and the slight rescoring of a Herrmann theme provide a perfect match for this key Hitchcock sequence and draw into a host of powerful emotional associations. Populaire – review 2013-06-01T23:05:28Z

There's also Doreen, a force of nature, dressing gown "the colour of sin", knowing everything, mocking everyone. Reading group: Is it OK to find The Bell Jar funny? 2013-01-31T11:37:44Z

She cared about her appearance, and had her shoes dyed in bright fluorescent colours to match her walking sticks. Susan Crosland obituary 2011-02-28T19:00:53Z

Movies like this are usually described in terms of popcorn but a better comparison would be Space Dust: it's fun, wacky, explosive and bursting with artificial colours. Guardians of the Galaxy first look review – a whip-smart space romp 2014-07-24T04:00:00Z

Created in the balmy Côte d'Azur of the 1930s, their colours look baked to lush perfection under the summer sun. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-11T23:05:00Z

It's a true original: eloquent about the intersection of crime, romanticism and myth-making in America, and highly innovative in its use of colour, editing and voice-over. Badlands: No 4 2010-10-17T10:52:00Z

But as we walk towards those early images she asks if there are any colour photographs in the exhibition. Model, muse and memorable handshake 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Most beautiful are Buckley's video projections, which fashion lushly coloured sculptures from light. This week's new exhibitions 2010-12-11T00:15:00Z

Scandal is the first network primetime drama to feature an African American female lead in close to 40 years, and possibly the first ever whose colour is entirely incidental. Kerry Washington: notes on a Scandal 2013-06-28T22:00:00Z

Trees, if you look at them, you get all these different colours. The evolution of Elmer the Elephant 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z

So began a long career photographing death, carnage and human suffering, often close up and in colour – a style that earned him a new sobriquet: "the Mexican Weegee". Enrique Metinides: photographing the dead for Mexico's 'bloody news' 2012-11-21T14:26:53Z

Tagalog words intermittently scattered around for local colour, exotically italicised. Ilustrado by Miguel Syjuco 2010-06-26T23:06:00Z

Obviously, this is anecdotal – I haven’t conducted a census – but I don’t recall seeing more than 10 people of colour among the attendees, and that’s a generous estimate. 'Gwyneth glows like a radioactive swan' – my day at the Goop festival 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

She was like a rag doll, and a terrible colour.” ‘I can’t fight anorexia any more. I’ve tried so hard’ 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z

There's something about watching film in colour that deceives you into believing it's more real, so to see this from 110 years ago adds something very substantial. World's first colour film viewed 2012-09-12T17:20:51Z

She is determined that when she gets there, she will ensure she encourages other women of colour to put themselves forward for the job. Why stuntwomen are angry about 'wigging' – and are changing the industry from within 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z

Of course there was still a lot of fun to be had — Bingo Halls and Country Living being inspiration —plus lots of the requisite bright colour. | Mulberry Wins! 2011-02-21T19:17:53Z

Amid all this insight, the fact that Van Gogh's colours are not always in their pristine glory is hard to assimilate. Van Gogh's true colours were originally even brighter 2013-05-02T14:37:16Z

Unlike the moralising narratives of the artist’s Pre-Raphaelite peers, these were about “line, form and colour first”, Whistler insisted. A river runs through it 2014-05-08T04:00:00Z

Heimat's most powerful trick is to switch between black-and-white and colour. Heimat 2010-06-25T05:45:00Z

If the Observer was to have a colour supplement it would have to totally rethink the way it commissioned and displayed photography. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z

It don't matter what colour you are, it matters what colour your heart is, man, and your intentions. Ducking and weaving 2010-07-30T23:09:00Z

It should be white, and I made it a little fantasy by giving it another colour. Agnès Varda's last interview: 'I fought for radical cinema all my life' 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z

The final attacker, Roderick Maclean, was schizophrenic: he believed that God had revealed to him the secrets of universal power, which lay in the number four and the colour blue. Shooting Victoria by Paul Thomas Murphy – review 2013-01-11T10:00:01Z

I’d camp until the grass beneath me turned the colour of limes, then lemons. A mountain of happy memories in British Columbia 2020-09-08T04:00:00Z

A pair of guests once accused him of adding food colouring to a dish: they were so accustomed to overcooked tinned vegetables that they assumed foul play when they were served fresh. Salmon Oscars and five gallons of hot fudge: catering for the Academy Awards 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z

From the outside, it looks cold – the unstained wood is pale and the paper edges of the books white – but inside the books' spines turn it into a warm riot of colour. The bookcase you'll want to live in 2010-07-13T19:00:00Z

“The world is not one colour or one body shape,” she says. Stitch-up: online sewing community at war over cultural appropriation 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Some images earned their place for simple beauty: a stag set against vivid autumn colours, a wheeling flock of birds. Rewind TV: The Men Who Made Us Fat; Britain in a Day; Dead Boss 2012-06-16T23:05:40Z

It was the first version to be filmed in colour. What makes The Great Gatsby great? 2013-05-03T18:00:00Z

The over-saturated colours and blurred details in the pictures become my entire world as the viewer's plastic casing fills my peripheral vision. Poetry show pulls audience of one 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z

Some of the shots were in colour, others were in black and white, and Wheatley recalls being struck by the disparity between the two. How black-and-white movies made a comeback 2013-06-29T23:05:47Z

For there to be undiscovered colours, as opposed to just new colour labels, we would have to evolve to see areas of the electromagnetic spectrum beyond those that are currently visible. Notes & Queries: Which is the most repeated TV episode? 2012-12-19T16:55:02Z

When the second world war came he flew to the colours. Sam Beazley obituary 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z

And many of the designs of this early 80s crucible of pop, performance and mass culture are a cut-and-paste collage of 1920s reference points: Weimar cabaret, constructivist angles, De Stijl colours. From bob cuts to Bond films, the Bauhaus legacy lives on 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

The stars subvert the male, pale and stale status quo: they are mainly women of colour, and also represent queer, trans and working-class identities. ‘The boys' club has been obliterated’: meet the women of colour shaking up comedy 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

“I always say that when a child gets a hug from its mother, if that hug were a colour, it would be pink,” says Karen Haller, an expert in colour and branding. Think pink: how the colour is being reclaimed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The bliss of being young, questing and exquisitely miserable colours her account. Stage to page: do books about theatre ever live up to the real thing? 2011-02-24T13:11:19Z

I used to live in Liverpool and it’s not that mixed – and they basically just put all the people of colour in one class and were just like “all be friends with each other”. All This Panic: the most relatable film about teenage girlhood ever? 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z

This year, the British Academy of Film and Television arts will be judged partly on how it represents its audience in terms of colour, gender and sexual orientation. How Baftas stole a march on the ‘so straight’ Oscars 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z

The two solo movements pair the singers with specific instrumental colours. An English Requiem 2010-08-11T21:00:00Z

Othello is usually seen as a figure defined by his race, but Kinnear says that in this play strikingly little is made of Othello's colour. Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear: 'Othello and Iago are a bit cracked' 2013-04-10T19:00:00Z

Sansom is equally impressive in the depth of the background colour. Dominion by CJ Sansom – review 2012-12-06T06:30:01Z

Nolan brings a remarkable dynamism and colour to that frozen desert. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-22T23:07:00Z

Because it's set in Australia, it's got all those lovely colours – you're not straining to look at the TV. Karla Crome's favourite TV 2013-02-25T12:00:03Z

Its pioneering director of programmes, David Attenborough, and his team saw the potential of colour television for beautiful documentaries and the first they commissioned was Civilisation. Civilisation in HD: Which other shows deserve a high-def makeover? 2011-02-09T11:29:55Z

It succeeds, with skilful use of siting, open space, internal planning and roof space, even if a liking for the colour black is a prerequisite for living here. Stirling prize shortlist 2013 – review 2013-07-20T23:05:58Z

The others, who had been told that the splodge of colour had been carefully created for them, started to refer to it as "a painting". Why modern art is all in the mind 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z

For them, a verbal image arrives already tinged with musical colour, a chord change or the kick of a riff making the choice of words seem inevitable. Rivers of babble on: how word became the servant to music 2013-06-28T17:59:00Z

Without the room for imagination, all that you’re left with are some brightly coloured pixels and awkward silences that could just as easily have been created by sending suitors endless pictures of your actual crotch. Sexting: the ambiguous aubergine vs the anatomically accurate 'va-moji' 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z

One of her creations is called Balcony – a wooden box mounted on the wall, with blue flaps of colour. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z

All that is there deep in his music, yet for all the colour there's a Germanic solidity underneath. Karol Szymanowski: chasing beauty 2010-04-15T22:00:00Z

A chicken is a chicken, but sponge, icing, chocolate and food colouring are the kitchen creator's media, just as clay, stone and paint are for the sculptor or painter. Food as art: it looks almost too good to eat 2012-08-03T22:00:40Z

His paintings carry some of the simple pleasures of colouring in. Patrick Caulfield/Gary Hume – review 2013-06-06T06:00:05Z

He speaks of the secret life of the self in colours that conceal nothing. Howard Hodgkin 2010-06-28T21:15:00Z

We know that there is an abundant range of beautiful colours and subtle flavours. Orgasm addicts, sex doesn’t have to be red hot 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z

There’s no question that race plays a role in these tragedies, but the plight of the poor sometimes knows no colour. Making a Murderer: another blow to our confidence in America's police 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

This A-Z guide to the most prescribed drugs in the US, strikingly accompanied by Stern's colour photographs of the pills, has since gone through more than a dozen editions. Bert Stern 2013-06-30T15:44:49Z

It was overwhelmingly young adults and teenagers, mostly female, many of them dressed in full Heather regalia: shoulder-padded blazers, knee-high socks, tartan, primary colours and, of course, scrunchies. Michael Lehmann on the legacy of his cult teen film Heathers 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z

You want to wholeheartedly cheer a band such as the National, who convey drama without recourse to fake blood, and living colour without peacock feathers. The National ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Abstract expressionism uses spacious surfaces, covering wall-scaled canvases with flowing expanses of colour that embrace the spectator. Barnett Newman's 'glimpses of the sublime' are a bargain at any price 2013-05-16T16:17:44Z

Some black actors will face being pigeonholed and patronised simply because of their skin colour. Do black actors still need the Screen Nation awards? 2012-11-09T10:00:34Z

Are the black-and-white pages "reality", and the colour only what is in their imaginations? How we made: Helen Oxenbury and Michael Rosen on We're Going on a Bear Hunt 2012-11-05T17:50:22Z

The prevailing period style is now known as mannerism – busy, diffuse compositions featuring idealised figures in complex pseudo-Michelangelesque poses; saccharine colour schemes; plunging perspectives. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z

His colour perception is now greater than ordinary human perception as it includes ultraviolet and infrared. ‘We will get regular body upgrades’: what will humans look like in 100 years? 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

What is more unearthly than the bodies of jellyfish “in a furnace of colour” or the mercurial limbs of the octopus? Review | In ‘Washington Black,’ a 19th-century slave escapes on a balloon 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

But the overall colour was a colourless all-colour of stained whiteness, deathly pale. Sea Story by AS Byatt 2013-03-15T13:58:58Z

It is also the colour of violence, anger and communism – of all that stirs the blood. Red is the colour of sex – and the colour of money when it comes to selling art 2013-06-12T14:16:24Z

The most delicious discovery in this book is that Fairbanks’s first film was not his starring role in 1915’s The Lamb, but a remnant of his stage career – and it’s in colour, too. Douglas Fairbanks: extraordinary life of Hollywood founding father 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z

He is colour blind, which explains a lot. Stella Grey and Edward walk off together into the sunset 2016-03-26T04:00:00Z

In recent weeks there hasn't been any need to turn up the colour or contrast. Next week's radio: from Shelagh Fogerty to Ebony: Black On White On Black 2013-06-08T05:00:08Z

Sitting in groups, brightly attired and surrounded by family supporters wearing their colours or waving flags, the six choirs competing dominated the swarming interior. Choir of the Year 2010 ? review 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Pick your chard colour here – the clean green Swiss or the sweet-shop neon Bright Lights chard. 'It's the food that makes me happy': delicious new vegetarian recipes from Anna Jones 2015-07-19T04:00:00Z

Photograph: © Munch Museum/Munch-EllingsendGroup/DACS 2012 The Edvard Munch show at Tate Modern was a riot of colour, an exhilarating display of what paint can do; it was also profoundly moving and often dark. Best art exhibitions of 2012, No 2 – Edvard Munch at Tate Modern 2012-12-20T13:38:40Z