The blog art (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
As Mark Rothko arrives at Tate Modern, I can't help thinking the gallery's Bankside location would be the perfect setting for a Turner show
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
Having wasted space over the summer with Cy Twombly's twaddle Cycles and Seasons , which ends on 14 September, Tate Modern is descending further into the pits with an exhibition of Mark Rothko's rubbish, opening on 26 September. Rothko's Red on Maroon (1959) indicates what to expect. Wow! Meanwhile, Tate Britain continues its decline into farce. Last year it showed State Britain . It's currently pandering...
New Statesman (Free subscription) | 11/08/2008
Rothko vs. Warhol Hadrian? Sorry mate, you're only the warm-up act; the real contenders for this year's "must-see" exhibition are Mark Rothko and Andy Warhol. First up is the Rothko exhibition at Tate Modern. The gallery, which already has a Rothko room, is hosting the first significant exhibition of the artist's work for two decades. Warhol, being celebrated at the Hayward, is a little more familiar....
LAist (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Painted out graffiti is reminiscent of a Mark Rothko painting | Photo by Lord Jim via Flickr In light of the new graffiti law Gov. Schwarzenegger signed into law this week, the Associated Press has looked into a concerning pattern about graffiti taggers and the public's safety. Over the past couple years, four people have died when approaching or witnessing taggers in action. To see how insane some...
TaxProf Blog (Free subscription) | 23/07/2008
Wall Street Journal: A Portrait of Art as a Tax Deduction, by Mike Spector: Jon and Mary Shirley used to give artwork by the likes of Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Alberto Giacometti to the Seattle Art Museum. No longer....
Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 19/05/2008
On February 25, 1970, artist Mark Rothko committed suicide. He was then buried in a plot owned by fellow painter, Theodoros Stamos. The following developments regarding Rothko's remains were reported in Kathryn Shattuck, 38 Years After Artist's Suicide, His Remains...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
"In an overflowing salesroom at Christie's, bidders from all parts of the globe were happy to pay top dollar Tuesday night for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a monumentally fat woman by Lucian Freud. The auction also included a five-bedroom Modernist house, which was snapped up for a record price."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
At Christie’s, bidders paid top dollar for everything from an abstract canvas by Mark Rothko to a painting of a naked fat woman by Lucian Freud.
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Hamburg, Germany - Hamburger Kunsthalle presents Mark Rothko. The Retrospective, on view through 24 August 2008. The American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism. Twenty years after the last retrospective in a German museum this show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle offers a unique opportunity to discover his outstanding oeuvre anew. In...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/05/2008
Here's a look at the past. Items have been culled from The Chronicle's archives of 25, 50, 75 and 100 years ago. 1983 May 13: A vandal slashed and virtually ruined five abstract paintings by Mark Rothko on display at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on...
ANITA DAVIES (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
'Silence is so accurate.' Mark Rothko * Painted with my new Daniel Smith watercolours that arrived today!
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
"Qatar's ruling Al-Thani family is the mystery buyer of Mark Rothko's White Center (Yellow, Pink and Lavender on Rose), 1950, which sold at Sotheby's New York on 15 May 2007 for $72.8m--setting a record for the highest price ever paid for a work of post-war art at auction. The painting was consigned by David Rockefeller."...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 19/04/2008
Joseph Solman, an artist for the Works Progress Administration who painted vivid images of New York street scenes and along with Mark Rothko helped found an influential arts group in the 1930s, has died at age 99.
New York Times (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Mr. Solman was a painter who, with Mark Rothko and other modernists, helped shape American art as early as the 1930s.
Arizona Republic (Free subscription) | 16/04/2008
BC-Rothko Remains,0142 Judge says OK for Mark Rothko's family to move his remains Eds: APNewsNow. AP Video. AP Photo NYET231 EAST MARION, N.Y. (AP) - A judge has approved a request from artist Mark Rothko's children to move his remains from a Long Island cemetery to a burial plot in Valhalla, N.Y.The East Marion Cemetery Association voted over a year ago to allow the exhumation, but said it required...
