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 ...

Eight years ago, the songwriter David Dondero sat inside the Rothko Chapel and thought about the woman who had just broken his heart. "Your heart is like the Rothko Chapel," he wrote. "Cold dark void, ...

In honor of Mark Rothko's birthday, we are revisiting a post originally published last year commemorating the late artist's life and work. Today is the birthday of famed abstract painter, Mark Rothko.

His works are mesmerizing and recognized worldwide – swaths of color, and floating, fuzzy-edged rectangles … all part of the signature vision of the formidable 20th century artist Mark Rothko.

There’s something unintentionally perverse about the setup of “Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous,” the what-were-they-waiting-for “American Masters” entry on Mark Rothko. The opening scenes date to ...

There is a haunting story about Mark Rothko, one that says he once destroyed his own paintings, covering them in black or burning them in a fit of despair. It is not entirely true, yet not entirely ...

Fifty years ago, composer Morton Feldman wrote music to commemorate the opening of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. A half-century later, composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and MacArthur "genius" ...

When the Rothko Room—which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s works in a snug, serene space—opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist’s wishes were ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Less than a decade old, the Fondation Louis Vuitton now stages exhibitions as stellar as those in Paris’s most ...