Rushing to Daugavpils?

Mark Rothko would be delighted, says his son: Six of the late artist's abstracts have just gone on show in his remote Latvian birthplace. Opening the display in Daugavpils, Christopher Rothko says his father would be less happy about auctions that ...

DAUGAVPILS, Latvia (Reuters) - Modernist painter Mark Rothko's hometown in Latvia devoted a new centre to the late artist's work on Wednesday. The Mark Rothko Arts Centre opened in the eastern town of Daugavpils, the Baltic country's second biggest ...

Daugavpils (dpa) - Als sich sein weltberühmter Vater Mark Rothko 1970 das Leben nahm, war er gerade einmal sechs Jahre alt. Heute verwaltet Christopher Rothko (49) gemeinsam mit seiner Schwester Kate Rothko Prizel (62) den Nachlass seines Vaters ...

There have been a number of stage plays devoted to the lives of visual artists -- Georges Seurat, Pablo Picasso and Mark Rothko have all received the grand theatrical treatment. But Chinese artist Ai Weiwei is unlike the others in that he is a ...

ROTHKO AT CAMP: The cover of Meg Wolitzers new novel, The Interestings which hits the hardcover list at No. 11 features bold lettering against a backdrop of bright stripes, like a TV test pattern from the disco era. What it does not feature, ...

When it comes to his work, 62-year-old UK artist Palo Klein Uber knows precisely what he's trying accomplish. He outlines his latest plans and ideas in an annual artist statement, and scribbles discussions of his work on the back of every mixed ...

L-R Jaron Carlson and Mark Robokoff in Cyrano's Red. Photo courtesy Cyrano's. You may not be seeing red, but youll certainly be hearing Red if you tune into Stage Talk this week as Director ElizabethWare and Actor Mark Robokoff join Jean and ...

Red is a play about a colour, a painter, and a life-changing commission. In 1958, the Russian born American painter Mark Rothko (Marcus Yakovlevich Rothkowitz) accepted a commission to decorate the Four Seasons restaurant of the new Seagram building ...

Foster + Partners: To mark twenty years since the completion of the Carré dArt in Nîmes, Norman Foster has been invited to curate a special exhibition to celebrate this anniversary his design won an international competition for the project in ...