American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: ...

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 ...

Mark Rothko’s color field paintings might initially evoke a post-war mingling of Abstract Expressionists at the New York Art Students’ League—or maybe the Tate’s Seagram Murals. But it is the much ...

The artist’s complex paper works dazzle on display in Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, on view through March 31 at the National Gallery of Art. The spirited Rothko is the subject of an exquisite show ...

These days the artist Mark Rothko's fame rests primarily on his paintings of soft-edged rectangles of complementary and contrasting colors. In 1958, when these distinctive and evocative "color field" ...

The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)'s “Mark Rothko: Reflection” is the institution’s first show dedicated solely to the abstract expressionist. Featuring 11 of Rothko’s works, the exhibition's curatorial ...

You may not be able to pay $186 million for a Mark Rothko masterpiece like Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev once did. But you can buy Rothko’s New York studio — where he created his paintings for ...

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, ...

Painter Mark Rothko faced a series of struggles: He left Russia when he was 10, his father died seven months after the family arrived in Portland, Ore., he dropped out of Yale after two years and ...

The Rothko Chapel has completed a year-long renovation project to complete Mark Rothko’s artist vision for the interfaith sanctuary. In the audio above, Don Geraci speaks to Christopher Rothko in a ...