On a blustery Tuesday morning earlier this month, nine University of Houston students and their professor, Jose L. Contreras-Vidal, ventured out onto “Color Field,” a sprawling on-campus maze ...

satisfying grid pattern across each nail, creating a calming, artistic effect. Every line and color transition feels perfectly balanced, turning simple nail art into a visually soothing experience.

On the legacy of post-painterly abstraction, occasioned by the exhibition and catalogue for “Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975 ... As a nod to the Swiss art historian Heinrich Wölfflin’s ...