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, ...

When Mark Rothko traveled to Florence in 1950, he had a lot on his mind. His mother had recently died, and his wife, Mell, was pregnant with their first child. At age 46, he was looking for teaching ...

In the 1950s, the center of the art world shifted from Pablo Picasso's Paris to Mark Rothko's New York. This week, Rothko is once again the focus of the city's art scene, with seven paintings up for ...

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 ...

At the moment, Vasseur is educating folks about one of the most influential expressionist-surrealist painters of the 20th century — Mark Rothko. Vasseur is the in-house curator for Ohio’s first ...