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: ...

Sumptuously illustrated with reproductions of 50 paintings, this book celebrates the rich artistic legacy of American artist Mark Rothko and his signature works as a painter of abstract canvases.

Mark Rothko’s color field paintings might initially evoke a post-war mingling of Abstract Expressionists at the New York Art Students’ League—or maybe the Tate’s Seagram Murals. But it is the much ...

The Yale University Art Gallery recently received a gift from the Friday Foundation of six paintings and drawings by Mark Rothko and Franz Kline — artists who profoundly influenced 20th-century ...

Ever since the Hamilton Building came on line, the Denver Art Museum has been mounting shows at a breakneck pace, with this summer’s fiber extravaganza, Spun, and its dozen-plus separate shows proving ...

Thoughtful and well-read though he was, Mark Rothko was never afraid of a little shock-and-awe. Actually, make that a lot of shock-and-awe: as Rothko once observed, "a lot of people break down and cry ...

There’s a reason Matisse left white borders of blank canvas in his paintings, and why your dogs don’t appreciate a Mark Rothko color field the way you do (aside from dogs’ general disregard for art).