“The progression of a painter’s work,” wrote Rothko, “as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity, toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea, ...

Can you guess which painting sold for $450 million? Here, we dive into the most expensive paintings in the world.

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 ...

Artificial intelligence has learned to paint, draw, and even mimic great artists like Matt Groening or Hayao Miyazaki. It’s ...

In “Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper” the National Gallery has assembled more than 100 works by one of America’s greatest artists from a portion of his oeuvre that has, until now, been generally passed ...

Created more than five centuries apart, an imperial Chinese porcelain dish and a painting by Mark Rothko—unexpectedly brought together in visual dialogue—reveal the immensity of the color red. The ...

A family visit to a Dutch art museum went south when an unsupervised child damaged a painting worth millions. While visiting the Boijmans Van Beuningen museum in Rotterdam, the child scratched the ...

At a time when museums around the country are trying to diversify their collections, staffs and trustees, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has announced plans to sell Mark Rothko’s “Untitled” ...