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 ...

How Mark Rothko and Adoph Gottlieb responded to The New York Times. When a New York Times art critic reviewed Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb's work, the artists responded with a letter that became a ...

Mark Rothko is known for his colorful abstract paintings of stacked rectangles with billowy borders and layered textures. His art has been auctioned for up to $186 million, but he once turned down a ...

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...

On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko's painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie's. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, ...

2023 has been the year of Mark Rothko. He is currently the subject of a landmark exhibition in Paris, which includes an impressive 115 paintings that redefines the celebrated Abstract Expressionist’s ...

A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, will debut tonight on PBS’ American Masters. His signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

Nov 15 (Reuters) - A Mark Rothko painting sold for $82.5 million at auction on Monday, the second-highest price for a work by the late abstract artist. Titled, "No.7," the 95 in (241 cm) high canvas ...

When a New York Times art critic reviewed Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb’s work, the artists responded with a letter that became a manifesto on abstract art. In it, they stressed being in favor of ...