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Christopher Rothko Has Spent 30 Years Connecting With His Father Through the Work

In conversation with Observer, the artist's son discusses the genesis of "Rothko in Florence," a 15-year labor of love that places 73 works in dialogue with Fra Angelico, Michelang...

I challenge the Rothko naysayers to stand in front of his monumental art and not feel awe – Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

An exhibition in Florence that pairs his giant canvases with Renaissance religious art brought me to the edge of tears. It is the perfect refuge from the infinite scrollAs an unbap...

Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’

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Let’s dress like a Mark Rothko! How gen Z fell for the king of colour field paintings

Why is the artist’s work racking up hundreds of thousands of views on social media? For a generation bombarbed with visual stimuli, it seems his canvases offer a meditative escape...

Seeing Red

The art world is buzzing after the spring auction frenzy. But I only feel grief, like something is dying.

Get your next weather report from a Rothko painting

Sometimes a quick glance at the weather app is not enough to decipher what truly awaits outside the comfort of indoors. But now, a project is using an unexpected tool to tell users...

Ross Murray Reimagines Place With Vintage Color, Modern Clarity, And A Touch Of Surreal Calm

Ross Murray is a New Zealand illustrator and comics creator whose work moves between natural landscapes, city scenes, storyboards, picture books, and editorial imagery. His visual...

“Broken Vessels” by Artist Cindy Bernhard

Cindy Bernhard PLATO is honored to present Broken Vessels, a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Cindy Bernhard, featuring a new body of paintings that explores spiritual ruptu...

50 Years of Groundbreaking Work: Kunstmuseum Basel Puts Helen Frankenthaler Front and Center

It is significant that Kunstmuseum Basel is showing her work now; 2028 will mark the 100th anniversary of Frankenthaler's birth, and there will be major exhibitions at SFMOMA, the...

Barry X Ball Connects the Secular and Sacred in “The Shape of Time”

This career-spanning exhibition in Venice was inspired by the role religion played in classical art history.

Projections of a single totality

Max Beckmann"On My Painting" ("Über meine Malerei") was a lecture delivered by Max Beckmann in July 1938 at the New Burlington Galleries in London. It was written while in exile, s...

Review: “Daniel Rios Rodriguez: Open this Wall” at Ruby City, San Antonio

Open this Wall at Ruby City’s Studio annex presents an ensemble of paintings by Texas artist Daniel Rios Rodriguez. It’s an autobiographical body of work largely informed by the ar...

He reconnected with Judaism as an adult. With his art, he hopes others do the same.

Bruce David’s magnum opus is a psychedelic lithograph depicting practically the entire Torah. Over eight months, David filled it with a plethora of hidden symbols: If you look clos...

Joan Miró’s Joy Is as Infectious as Ever

Miró's paintings explode with joy and exuberance, and those emotions are palpable. They simply make you happy.

Three major works donated to ARTIST ROOMS by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation to go on display at Tate Modern

Tate and the National Galleries of Scotland today announced that the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated three of the artist's renowned sculptures to ARTIST ROOMS. Jointly s...

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The Jewish friendship that let David Hockney experience ‘dangerous perfection’

Think of the British painter David Hockney, who died Thursday at 88, and you think of color. 1967’s “A Bigger Splash,” almost certainly his most famous work, is a study in blue so...

Artist paints Zuckerberg's yacht on fire

My favorite artworks of the post-2008 financial crisis were Alex Schaefer's impressionistic yet realistic canvases of Chase Bank locations on fire. Calm yet blazing, clinical yet m...

For Stephen Lichty, Sculpture Makes Visible What Matter Remembers

The San Francisco-based artist approaches artmaking as an act of observation rather than authorship.

For the Obama Center, Mark Bradford Paints a Fierce and Luminous Chicago

“City of the Big Shoulders” reflects the city’s strength and complexity. It took the artist five years to complete, mapping migration patterns and structural racism.

What David Hockney Saw

He leaves behind a way of looking that makes the world larger, brighter, stranger, and more alive.

“Carton” by Artist Adrian Wong

Francesca Mollett’s Architecture of Abstraction

In “Buried Shadow” at GRIMM, she transforms memory, matter and perception into tableau vivants in which light, color and form shift under the eye.

Searching for the Cruz-Diez Magic in his Paris Atelier

A visit to this former butcher shop reveals the whole dimension of the great artist’s quest to recreate the light of Caracas by engineering a new ambient