Alexandra Loske’s World of Colour

Art historian Alexandra Loske, curator at Brighton’s Royal Pavilion, takes us on a journey through the meanings of colour, with a dazzling feature in every issue. At the ROSA launch events she even colour-coordinates outfit and article.

In the Pink

Alexandra Loske on a colour that’s both decadent and demure

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Marylin Monroe promo shot for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes © Twentieth Century Fox

Gold Rush

Alexandra Loske on the most luminous and divine of colours

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Whistler

Back to Black

Alexandra Loske on the colour of nothingness

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The Unbearable Whiteness of Being

Alexandra Loske on the purest, the holiest of hues.

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Orange is the New Brown

Alexandra Loske on the juiciest of colours, and back in fashion.

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(Not So) Mellow Yellow

Alexandra Loske on the colour closest to light.

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Green

Green shoots

Alexandra Loske on a shapeshifting colour.

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Red

Mercurial red

Alexandra Loske on the loudest of colours.

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A work of art.

Hiding in plain sight

Alexandra Loske celebrates our most unappreciated colour, brown.

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An artwork by JMW Turner.

‘All the blues I ever dreamt of’

Alexandra Loske on the queen of colours.

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