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

1 Exclusive: How Did the Tony Awards Opening Number Come Together? Over a career spanning five decades, Rothko developed his signature style: large, abstract color fields with luminous rectangular ...

Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this book celebrates the rich artistic legacy of American artist Mark Rothko and his signature works as a painter of abstract canvases.

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 ...

Why is the artist’s work racking up hundreds of thousands of views on social media? For a generation bombarbed with visual stimuli, it seems his canvases offer a meditative escape The works of Mark ...

The Yale University Art Gallery recently received a gift from the Friday Foundation of six paintings and drawings by Mark Rothko and Franz Kline — artists who profoundly influenced 20th-century ...

Thoughtful and well-read though he was, Mark Rothko was never afraid of a little shock-and-awe. Actually, make that a lot of shock-and-awe: as Rothko once observed, "a lot of people break down and cry ...