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" ...

In one of the most notorious episodes in the history of modern art, Nelson Rockefeller ordered the destruction of a mural he had commissioned from Diego Rivera. It was supposed to adorn Rockefeller ...

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 ...

Alfred Molina, right, portrays painter Mark Rothko in "Red" on "Great Performances." Alfred Enoch co-stars. (Johan Persson) Alfred Molina, who played Mexican muralist Diego Rivera opposite Salma Hayek ...

Master abstract expressionist Mark Rothko has just landed the biggest commission in the history of modern art, a series of murals for New York’s famed Four Seasons Restaurant. In the two fascinating ...

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 ...

YOUNGSTOWN –The Butler Institute of Art has a world-class art collection and regularly hosts live music and movies. As part of its centennial celebration, the Butler will add theater to its repertoire ...

Painter Mark Rothko faced a series of struggles: He left Russia when he was 10, his father died seven months after the family arrived in Portland, Ore., he dropped out of Yale after two years and ...

Sotheby’s has announced one of its heavyweight lots for the fall auction season in New York: Mark Rothko’s 1953 painting Blue Over Red. The picture, which has been in the same private collection since ...

Mark Rothko’s Blue Over Red from 1953, a critical period during which the artist developed his signature style of abstraction, will headline a Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in New York on Nov. 14 ...