Over 70 works explore his connection to the Italian Renaissance and artists like Fra Angelico ...

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 ...

Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous tells the story of the art world giant whose signature color fields defined the Abstract Expressionist movement and revolutionized the art world. Before you watch ...

In 1958, Mark Rothko received his first significant commission. The owners of the newly constructed Seagram Building on New York’s Park Avenue were on the hunt for artworks to fill its ground floor ...

When the Rothko Room—which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s works in a snug, serene space—opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist’s wishes were ...

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 ...

Mark Rothko's Seagram murals, commissioned in 1958 to decorate the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York, are famous for their layers of translucent and opaque paints that ...

In this week’s issue, John Lahr reviews John Logan’s new play, “Red,” which stars Alfred Molina as the artist Mark Rothko, a lifelong depressive who thought of himself as the “supreme pessimist.” As ...

Mark Rothko, No. 7, displayed as part of the The Macklowe Collection at a press preview for New York Marquee Evening Sales at Sotheby's in New York City on November 5, 2021. On Monday, the Museum ...