In 1917, while Britain's Royal Navy was plagued by Germany's formidable U-boat offensive, visual artist Norman Wilkinson realized that traditional camouflages wouldn't help British ships avoid the ...

The effectiveness of the iconic dazzle camouflage used on British Royal Navy ships during the First World War could be “substantially overestimated”, according to a new study. Instead, the research, ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at HistoryToday.com. During the First World War, patterns of “disruptive coloration” were applied directly to ...

Tauba Auerbach will follow Tobias Rehberger, Peter Blake, and Carlos Cruz-Diez by transforming a fireboat in the avant-garde style devised during World War I. Carlos Cruz Diez, Induction Chromatique à ...

A pilot boat, conserved by the Merseyside Maritime Museum, has received a fresh lick of paint. Its striking new design reveals a fascinating history of the art of confusion in warfare. The Edmund ...

In World War I, military ships were often painted with “dazzle camouflage”: zany, complex patterns, glaring colors, and geometric shapes designed to confuse the enemy. This summer, on the 100th ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. In 1918, maritime painter John ...

Tauba Auerbach's dazzle ship was revealed this week in New York Harbor and will soon be open for visits. Meanwhile, on the other side of the pond, a "dazzled" ferry in Liverpool is hosting river ...

The Public Art Fund is diving into a new medium—the sea. This summer, the arts non-profit is presenting the historic Fireboat John J. Harvey with "dazzle camouflage" by Tauba Auerbach, and you can ...

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