His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

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 ...

After more than a decade of planning, the largest capital investment in the arts in the state’s history opens with a new pavilion named for Rothko and a gallery devoted to Black artists ...

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 ...

Walking up downtown Portland’s Southwest 10th Avenue on a rainy late fall day, your head down against the wind, you might be ...

“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, ...

In total Christie’s brought in $689 million in a single night, already matching what the auction house generated across all ...

American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: ...

Portland Art Museum opens its $116M Rothko Pavilion, a glass connector uniting two historic buildings with new galleries, ...

He designed innovative houses and sculptures, but his most visible role in New York City’s cultural life was as an accidental restaurateur, running the venerable Fanelli Cafe. By Will Heinrich He ...