Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating ...

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.

Following the “once-in-a-lifetime” exhibition at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris last year, a very different, but no less valuable presentation of Mark Rothko paintings is coming to the capital of ...

John Logan’s award-winning play “Red” has been revitalized by City Circle Theatre Company through an intimate, wildly entertaining performance. The biographical drama depicts painter Mark Rothko as he ...

Jeff Casazza first came across “Red” when the play came out in 2009 and he was immediately enthralled by Mark Rothko’s character. More than 15 years later, he will be performing as Rothko in Fort ...

On “Mark Rothko: The Decisive Decade, 1940–1950,” which opened at the Columbia Museum of Art, South Carolina, on September 14, 2012 and remains on view through January 6, 2013. Mark Rothko’s so-called ...

“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, ...

Say “Mark Rothko” and we visualize the signature works that have become synonymous with his name—the so-called Classic paintings, large canvases constructed with soft-edged floating rectangles of ...