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 ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — It’s easy to imagine Mark Rothko, American art’s high priest of the oppressive sublime, as having emerged fully formed. The dense fogs of color that define his iconic works obscure ...

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 ...

Visitors who stroll through the National Gallery of Art’s “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” in the proper chronological order will eventually arrive at a chapel-like gallery. It’s lined with oil ...

The line, “Neither flesh nor fleshless,” is from T.S. Eliot’s poem “Burnt Norton.” It is something that I remember for a moment, but it is soon gone. In fact, lots of words and phrases are buzzing in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Art handlers from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen install Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No.8 (Aad Hoogendoorn/Museum Boijmans Van ...

Mark Rothko, "Untitled (seated figure in interior)," c. 1938, watercolor on construction paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of The Mark Rothko ...

Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art is facing a $10 million lawsuit because it refuses to name an anonymous owner for a Mark Rothko painting it sold. Ben Martin/Getty Images A Manhattan gallery has been ...

A central figure among the abstract expressionists who emerged in New York in the late 1940s, Mark Rothko brought a new sense of drama into abstract art. In his large floating rectangles of color, ...