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 ...

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 ...

Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris. By Jason Farago Reporting from Paris Melt the world away, lose its details, ...

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) sought to create a spiritual transaction between artwork and viewer. “The artist,” he wrote, “tries to give human beings direct contact with eternal verities through reduction ...

Abstract Expressionist artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), during his MoMA exhibition, New York City, March 1961. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images) Art exists everywhere, not just in museums. Grace Banks ...

One of the most influential artists of the 20 th century, Mark Rothko’s signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the movement that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New ...

Paintings by postwar abstract artist Mark Rothko are highly coveted — in May one of his works sold at auction in London for $50 million. But oddly enough, Harvard University has had a handful of ...

In the late summer of 2021, Christopher Rothko—son of Mark Rothko, the celebrated New York School painter—found himself driving up and down the coast of California. The psychologist turned guardian ...

There’s something unintentionally perverse about the setup of “Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous,” the what-were-they-waiting-for “American Masters” entry on Mark Rothko. The opening scenes date to ...