Explore the most expensive Mark Rothko paintings ever sold at auctions and the interesting stories behind them.

The Smithsonian show finds links between a 15th-century Ming dynasty dish and a 20th-century Rothko painting. Curator Jan Stuart says, "You almost... See Red In A New Light: Imperial China Meets Mark ...

“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about renowned artist Mark Rothko, will be performed as part of SecondStage theatre series at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island ...

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 ...

A luminous, red rectangular abstract by Mark Rothko sold for $85.8 million on Thursday, a solid kickoff to what’s poised to be ebullient spring auctions in New York. The seller of the 1957 work, ...

It’s a Rothko moment in Paris. The week’s main curatorial event is, undoubtedly, the retrospective of 115 works by Mark Rothko at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, the first survey of the Abstract ...

In the 1950s, the center of the art world shifted from Pablo Picasso’s Paris to Mark Rothko’s New York. This week, Rothko is once again the focus of the city’s art scene, with seven paintings up for ...

The atmosphere is remarkably like a color field, after all. Sometimes a quick glance at the weather app is not enough to ...

These days the artist Mark Rothko's fame rests primarily on his paintings of soft-edged rectangles of complementary and contrasting colors. In 1958, when these distinctive and evocative "color field" ...

Mark Rothko, “Self-Portrait” (1936), © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/Bildrecht Wien, 2019 (all images via khm.at) VIENNA — Mark Rothko is ...

Theater biographies of artists tend to be pseudo-serious art-appreciation melodramas meant to make audiences feel smart without tiring them out. With the major exception of "Sunday in the Park With ...