Learn how to read a Mark Rothko painting in 60 seconds—and why “just colored rectangles” make grown adults cry.

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 ...

Created more than five centuries apart, an imperial Chinese porcelain dish and a painting by Mark Rothko—unexpectedly brought together in visual dialogue—reveal the immensity of the color red. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Mark Rothko traveled to Florence in 1950, he had a lot on his mind. His mother had recently died, and his wife, Mell, ...

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" ...

In the 1950s, the center of the art world shifted from Pablo Picasso's Paris to Mark Rothko's New York. This week, Rothko is once again the focus of the city's art scene, with seven paintings up for ...

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, "Yellow Band" (1956), oil on canvas, 86 1/10 × 79 1/2 inches, Sheldon Museum of Art (all photos Anthony Majanlahti/Hyperallergic) PARIS — Mark Rothko’s work has come to epitomize mid-20th ...

Theater biographies of artists tend to be pseudo-serious art-appreciation melodramas meant to make audiences feel smart without tiring them out. With the major exception of "Sunday in the Park With ...