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 ...

Rendering of the east entrance plaza and new Rothko Pavilion at the Portland Art Museum (image courtesy Vinci Hamp Architects) (click to enlarge) “I think, in the world of philanthropy, naming ...

The National Gallery of Art is showing more than 100 of Mark Rothko's paintings on paper, many on view for the first time, in a new glimpse of the... Paintings on paper reveal another side of Rothko ...

This season on Great Performances comes Red which brings to life the passion of painter Mark Rothko in this six-time Tony-winning play dramatizing Rothko’s greatest challenge, creating the murals for ...

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 ...

Mark Rothko is the great thundercloud of 20th century American painting, a man who struggled to find a way for mere pigment to summon immense reservoirs of feeling, and who took his own life when the ...

Mark Rothko never set foot in Houston, let alone the chapel in Montrose named for him. Yet Houston has been infatuated with the artist since the austere space opened in 1971. At first glance, the 14 ...

For about the past year and a half, the Rothko Chapel has been closed for a $30 million restoration ahead of its fiftieth anniversary, in 2021. Those involved with the project are careful to call it a ...

Two guys standing around for 90 minutes and talking about art. That’s a play? Yeah it is, every bit as much as Mark Rothko’s multiform rectangles of color are great paintings. Rothko and his assistant ...

Five monumental paintings by Mark Rothko that have become the stuff of art world legend — and art world nightmares — are being revived. The post-war abstract artist donated the ...