He wrote seminal texts on the artists Clyfford Still and Mark Rothko, in a jargon-free style that won him readers far outside ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On a weekday morning in late September, an hour and a half from Tokyo off a side-road near the town of Sakura ...

His one-hour film, "Rothko, Pictures Must Be Miraculous," produced with OPB, aired on the PBS series "American Masters." Eric earned a bachelor of science from Emerson College in Boston.

Art was in the air in Seoul during the first week of September when the city hosted two global art fairs, Frieze Seoul and ...

Courtesy Christie's Images Ltd. As the action-packed Seoul ... Leading Sotheby’s sales is Mark Rothko’s 1954 painting Untitled (Yellow and Blue), Artnet reported on Friday.

Abstract art often poses a challenge for many viewers due to its lack of connection to the physical world. Like other ...

Whether you admire the emotional canvases of the Italian Renaissance or get curious about contemporary art installations, art ...

‘I was playing off more traditional abstracts, like Rothko, [where the canvas is] a meditative space ... the centrality of what we see in front of us is constantly interrupted by the images on our ...

High-rollers in the art world now refer to the most rarefied paintings as “pictures." Thus, for a would-be bidder, a $40-million Abstract Expressionist canvas by Rothko is not a “masterpiece ...