Learn how to read a Mark Rothko painting in 60 seconds—and why “just colored rectangles” make grown adults cry.

When Mark Rothko traveled to Florence in 1950, he had a lot on his mind. His mother had recently died, and his wife, Mell, was pregnant with their first child. At age 46, he was looking for teaching ...

The Fall/Winter 2026–2027 story moves through the Houston museum’s offices, surrounding grounds, and the de Menils’ former ...

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 ...

In 1960, Harvard University commissioned the artist Mark Rothko, famous for painting monumentally scaled blocks of intense color, to create a site-specific work for the university. Rothko signed on to ...

Mark Rothko at his 69th Street studio with Rothko Chapel artworks (© 1964 Hans Namuth; photo by Hans Namuth, courtesy the Estate of Mark Rothko) Mark Rothko's former apartment and studio in ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. When Mark Rothko committed suicide in 1970, he left behind hundreds of ...

A large canvas by Mark Rothko has been removed from the walls of the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, in Rotterdam, after a young visitor scratched the work during what the museum is calling an ...

You may not be able to pay $186 million for a Mark Rothko masterpiece like Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev once did. But you can buy Rothko’s New York studio — where he created his paintings for ...

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’s so much going on in the world these days: political conflicts, natural disasters, cultural unrest. It can be hard to process. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, don’t feel bad. You’re definitely ...

So you've been to the Rothko Chapel but you don't get it. "Mark Rothko: A Retrospective" sheds brighter light on the Mozart of Abstract Expressionists. If the chapel is graduate level Rothko, this ...