How Mark Rothko and Adoph Gottlieb responded to The New York Times. When a New York Times art critic reviewed Mark Rothko and Adolph Gottlieb's work, the artists responded with a letter that became a ...

It's easy to interpret the large, dark paintings of Mark Rothko's final months as bleak, the work of an artist whose long struggle with ill health and depression ended when he took his own life in ...

Sublime and vulgar all at once, his diaphanous stains of color have come together in a once-in-a-generation show in Paris. By Jason Farago Reporting from Paris Melt the world away, lose its details, ...

Mark Rothko (1903-1970) sought to create a spiritual transaction between artwork and viewer. “The artist,” he wrote, “tries to give human beings direct contact with eternal verities through reduction ...

PARIS — This will seem odd, but I’ve been thinking a lot about the differences between a painting by Mark Rothko and my smartphone. What do they have in common? Nothing extraordinary. Just that both ...