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 ...

On a rainy New York evening in May of 2012, Mark Rothko's painting Orange, Red, Yellow went up for auction at Christie's. As bidding began, it became clear this was no ordinary auction. Barrett White, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — Collectors looking to add a Mark Rothko work to their portfolio have the opportunity to acquire a large blue-and-green painting by the celebrated and influential American abstract ...

American Abstract painter Mark Rothko’s masterpiece, Untitled, from 1970, is returning to the auction block as a highlight of Christie's 20th-century art evening sale in New York on May 11, with a ...

Both possessed a specifically Jewish imagination and narrowed down their pictorial language to forms that expressed mystical aspects of their ancestral culture and faith. In Newman’s case it was the ‘ ...

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 ...

“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, ...

Mark Rothko with No. 7, 1960, photographed by artist Regina Bogat. Artwork © 1998, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York ...

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 ...

“Red,” the Tony Award-winning play by John Logan about renowned artist Mark Rothko, will be performed as part of SecondStage theatre series at Arts Center of Coastal Carolina on Hilton Head Island ...

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 ...