Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. A new documentary on Mark Rothko, one of the most influential ...

THE DAILY PIC (#1694): Is there any artist who suffers more from his own clichés than poor old Mark Rothko? All that “expression” his abstraction is supposed to be paired with, all that angst, all ...

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 ...

Abstract Expressionism is a non-representational way of making art, concerning less to reveal the subject but the manifestation of the painting act. Painting gestures or the capacity of the medium — ...

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 ...

See how Abstract Expressionism shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York In post World War II New York City, a new group of artists including Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Willem de ...

Nowon Hosts 'Masters of New York? Friends of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko' From January 10 to July 12, 2025... Featuring masterpieces by abstract expressionism pioneers Jackson Pollock and Mark ...

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, ...

The Ojibwe artist was active in New York's midcentury art scene and embraced by fellow Abstract Expressionists, yet he’s rarely in canonical histories today.

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 ...

On a quiet, tree-lined block on the Upper East Side, a Gilded Age carriage house where famed abstract expressionist Mark Rothko once lived and worked is back on the market. Its asking price is $9.5 ...