He designed innovative houses and sculptures, but his most visible role in New York City’s cultural life was as an accidental restaurateur, running the venerable Fanelli Cafe. By Will Heinrich He ...
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 ...
Abstract Expressionist artist Mark Rothko (1903-1970), during his MoMA exhibition, New York City, March 1961. (Photo by Ben Martin/Getty Images) Art exists everywhere, not just in museums. Grace Banks ...
The artist’s complex paper works dazzle on display in Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, on view through March 31 at the National Gallery of Art. The spirited Rothko is the subject of an exquisite show ...