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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko's painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie's. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, ...

Similarly to how Red celebrates the thoughts and work of renowned painter Mark Rothko, Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous from American Masters tells the story of the art world giant whose signature ...

The titans of Abstract Expressionism are on view now at The Royal Academy of Arts in London. It’s a massive show comprising 163 works by 30 painters, sculptors, and photographers, and will likely go ...

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 ...

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 ...

Christopher Rothko had heard about "the book" — an unfinished manuscript his father, the abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, was said to have written sometime between the mid-1930s and the early 1940s ...

On a quiet, tree-lined block on the Upper East Side, a Gilded Age carriage house where famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko once lived and worked is back on the market. Its asking price is $9.5 ...