The Nature of Color

Now showing at AMNH Exhibitions, *The Nature of Color* traces how animals, plants, minerals, and human technologies produce and perceive color. The exhibition moves between biology, physics, and cultural practice, using specimens and visual demonstrations to show how color can signal, deceive, and communicate. Its New York City run matters in a place built on images, where scientific literacy and visual culture constantly overlap. One clear takeaway is how often “color” is less a property of objects than an agreement between light and a viewer.