It’s a gimmick. Yet I always fall for it. Every year at this time, paint companies announce their (cue the drumroll) Color of the Year, or COTY, as insiders call it. They roll out the paint color they ...

In 1966, artist Gerhard Richter began painting simple, uniform grids of colored rectangles or squares on a white background. With just one exception, 1966’s Ema (Nude on a Staircase), the color charts ...

You're ready to give your home a refresh. Maybe you've been staring at greige office walls for far too long, or you're moving kids into their own rooms or just want a new color for your living room.

Though the term is used interchangeably with oil-based paints for most practical purposes, alkyd paints are actually not oil-based but alkyd resins mixed in some sort of thinner. When most people ...