When Mark Rothko traveled to Florence in 1950, he had a lot on his mind. His mother had recently died, and his wife, Mell, ...

Rothko's paintings form the basis of a project called 'Current Rothko' by New York-based designer and creative director ...

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 ...

These days the artist Mark Rothko's fame rests primarily on his paintings of soft-edged rectangles of complementary and contrasting colors. In 1958, when these distinctive and evocative "color field" ...

Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. An installation ...