In his 1978 folk song “Flowers are Red”, Harry Chapin tells the story of a little boy who wants to draw pictures of flowers using many different colors, but is ultimately forced by his teacher to draw ...

The term conceptual art is often associated with non-material type situations, where object qualities like beauty or physical presence come second to the primacy of a more esoteric or abstract idea.

In 1951, Palmer Paint introduced a paint-by-numbers system. It was a way to replicate painting masterpieces simply by dividing the picture into shapes. Each number corresponded to a color. It was a ...

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This exhibition highlights the paint-by-number fad initiated by Max S. Klein, owner of the Palmer Paint Co., and artist Dan Robbins and explores the cultural implications of the art fad. Millions of ...

When it comes to discovering hobbies in our 20s we’ve found some of our new go-tos have been those we’ve already done in childhood, from swimming, to dance classes, and of course painting by numbers.