Artnet

A Golden Rothko Shines at Christie’s as Passion for Abstract Expressionism Endures

Any painting created nearly 80 years ago would most certainly have something of a storied past. But the history of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (Yellow, Orange, Yellow, Light Orange), painted in 1955, is ...

Inside a Historic N.Y.C. Townhouse Where Painter Mark Rothko Once Lived

The circa 1853 building, which has also welcomed other creative luminaries, was recently converted into a boutique two-unit ...
Forbes

New Documentary On Abstract Expressionist Painter Mark Rothko To Debut On PBS Tonight

A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, will debut tonight on PBS’ American Masters. His signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the ...
BroadwayWorld

ROTHKO: PICTURES MUST BE MIRACULOUS Tells the Story of the Leading 20th-century Artist Best Known for Color Field Paintings

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Over a career spanning five decades, Rothko developed his signature style: ...
Artnet

Mark Rothko’s Abstract Art Has Fallen Out of Fashion. Here’s How a Cohort of Industry Players Is Working to Revive His Market

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 ...
The New Criterion

Was Rothko an abstract painter?

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...
PBS

Six Degrees of Mark Rothko

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 ...
Washington Examiner

A Faithful Art

He was born in Boston in 1960 and educated at Tokyo National University as well as at Bucknell in Pennsylvania, and he paints in a manner that is all his own–a manner that is just as commanding and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Mary Abbott Worked Alongside Abstract Expressionists Like Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock. Now, She’s Finally Getting Her Due

Some say there were just two rules governing the Club, a group of leading Abstract Expressionists in mid-century New York City. One was technical: Any two founding members could block a new applicant ...
Hyperallergic

'Women of Abstract Expressionism’ Challenges the Canon But Is Only the Beginning

DENVER — The story goes like this. It is 1950. Virginia-born painter Judith Godwin learns that dancer and choreographer Martha Graham will be in the region and all Godwin can think about is her desire ...
New York Magazine

The Old Is New Again

Abstract Expressionist New York: The Big Picture,” which is currently occupying MoMA’s fourth floor, is composed entirely of art drawn from the museum’s colossal permanent collection (much of which ...