Some of the works are borrowed from the National Gallery of Art’s “Across the Nation” initiative, which loans artworks from ...

Abstract art has its roots in early human civilisation ... and makes the objects appear to be floating in space. Mark Rothko was moved to tears by this painting when he saw it in New York in ...

The same goes for Mark Rothko, whose explosive expression of colour aimed to convey basic human emotion over a figurative subject. To make things more complicated, abstract art can be broken down ...

“Red” recounts the story of Rothko, an abstract ... paintings) as Rothko, as opposed to just looking at them as a tourist,” the actor says. “I spent probably four hours in the Mark Rothko ...

A struggling museum in Chiba Prefecture will sell off three-fourths of its collection and transfer prized modern American artworks to a new facility in Tokyo.

was a star of the Abstract Expressionist movement, a peer of Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. But she was also an athlete—a champion figure skater—and that athleticism translated to her art.