Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the ...

Plenty of people can tell you what a Mark Rothko painting looks like. Posters of the Abstract Expressionist’s seductive fields of color are a fixture on dorm room walls. Fewer people can tell you what ...

The Art Detective is a weekly column by Katya Kazakina for Artnet News Pro that lifts the curtain on what’s really going on in the art market. As Frieze London greeted well-heeled VIPs in Regent’s ...

A monumental and generous gift was made to the Cape Ann Museum by artist Mark Rothko’s son, Dr. Christopher Rothko, who donated his father’s 1934 watercolor and gouache painting.

In our new weekly series, One Special Thing, the Globe arts staff highlights something timeless — movies, books, TV shows, ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s easy to imagine Mark Rothko, American art’s high priest of the oppressive sublime, as having emerged fully formed. The dense fogs of color that define his iconic works obscure ...

Mark Rothko at his 69th Street studio with Rothko Chapel artworks (© 1964 Hans Namuth; photo by Hans Namuth, courtesy the Estate of Mark Rothko) Mark Rothko's former apartment and studio in ...

Mark Rothko, “Self-Portrait” (1936), © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Bildrecht Wien, 2019 (all images via khm.at) VIENNA — Mark Rothko is ...

Mark Rothko never set foot in Houston, let alone the chapel in Montrose named for him. Yet Houston has been infatuated with the artist since the austere space opened in 1971. At first glance, the 14 ...

Russell Crowe is set to star as artist Mark Rothko in a film titled "Rothko" and directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson. Crowe will lead an ensemble cast that includes Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Michael Stuhlbarg, ...

Mark Rothko, "Untitled (seated figure in interior)," c. 1938, watercolor on construction paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko ...