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, ...

Portland's favorite artistic son has officially come home. Ever since his death in 1970, the local art community has pined for a major show on the life and work of known for the pensive, gorgeous, ...

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 ...

It’s a Rothko moment in Paris. The week’s main curatorial event is, undoubtedly, the retrospective of 115 works by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the first survey of the Abstract ...

Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade 1940-1950, opening Friday at the Columbia Museum of Art, collects 37 works — paintings, watercolors, drawings and prints chiefly culled from the permanent collection ...

The art of famed abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko is renowned for the profound impact it makes upon viewers. Yet the repercussions are not usually so far-reaching as those stemming from ...

A comprehensive selection of works traces the career of Rothko (1903 – 1970), from his early figurative works to his most well-known abstract pieces. The exhibition will encompass around 115 works, ...

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 ...