Zócalo Public Square

The color black is associated with a host of contradictory and controversial associations, including luxury, death, sin, style, and race. At a Zócalo/Getty “Open Art” event moderated by Peter Tokofsky, a Getty education specialist and adjunct member of UCLA’s German faculty, Harvard art historian Sarah E. Lewis, paint manufacturer Katrin Trautwein, and The Story of Black’s author John Harvey took on the ways that black is more than just a color.