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 ...

Plenty of people can tell you what a Mark Rothko painting looks like. Posters of the Abstract Expressionist’s seductive fields of color are a fixture on dorm room walls. Fewer people can tell you what ...

You might as well get one thing straight . . . I’m not an abstractionist. —Mark Rothko to Selden Rodman, 1957 It has long been one of the curiosities of abstract art that so many of its practitioners ...

The Cape Ann Museum has returned after a year and a half of renovation. If you want to start with a bang, this is tough to ...

Gloucester’s Cape Ann Museum has been closed for more than a year for a major renovation, but its reopening June 30 will be more than worth the wait. Its stately new building will welcome “Avery, ...

He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far outside the art world. By Clay Risen David Anfam, a British art historian who won ...

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 ...

Mark Rothko’s luminous fields of color have become some of the most coveted canvases in the art market. Rothko stands among the giants of Abstract Expressionism, a movement that redefined postwar art ...

Mark Rothko and the inner world -- Ceci n'est pas un frigo -- The quiet dominance of form -- The tyranny of size -- The artists' reality: Mark Rothko's crystal ball -- Stacked [text struck through] -- ...