Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How to read a Mark Rothko painting. If your first thought is "I could've painted that," you're in good company. Plenty of smart, ...

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 ...

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, ...

Mark Rothko is known for his colorful abstract paintings of stacked rectangles with billowy borders and layered textures. His art has been auctioned for up to $186 million, but he once turned down a ...

Abstract Expressionist artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), during his MoMA exhibition, New York City, March 1961. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images) Art exists everywhere, not just in museums. Grace Banks ...

In the Spring 1998 issue of Modern Painters, the painter Trevor Winkfield described Abstract Expressionism “as a monolith” that has been “accorded a reverential deference which . . . seems a mite ...

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 ...

Catalog of the exhibitions Princeton University Art Museum, May 24-October 5, 2014 and the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens, January 31-April 26, 2015. Featuring twenty-seven paintings created between ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A vibrant, large scale abstract by Mark Rothko will lead Sotheby's autumn sale of post-war and contemporary art, where it is expected to sell for as much as $50 million, the ...