When the Rothko Room—which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s works in a snug, serene space—opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist’s ...

Tate in London is loaning nine Seagram Murals by Mark Rothko—the gallery’s entire Rothko Room—to a major retrospective in France dedicated to the late Abstract Expressionist artist at the ...

Plenty of people can tell you what a Mark Rothko painting looks like. Posters of the Abstract Expressionist’s seductive fields of color are a fixture on dorm room walls. Fewer people can tell ...

Also faithfully included is the permanent room dedicated to the artist by the Phillips Collection in 1960, the ‘Rothko Room’, which the artist helped design. Curators Suzanne Pagé and Christopher ...

The maturation of Rothko’s style into a luminous overlay of hazy-edged not-quite-squares occurs in a horn-blowing room (or perhaps the sound is more like a muffled trumpet?) with a dozen choice ...

And architect Philip Johnson went to Mark Rothko and said, "Why don't you create a series of murals that can go in our dining room?" The commission was $35,000, and in 1958, that was a huge amount ...

Rothko, along with Jackson Pollock ... since he was creating a space,” Christopher said. “The central room of the studio was skylit, and he came to love the low, diffused light it gave ...

But the chapel wasn’t big enough for those two colossal egos, and Johnson walked off the project early on when it became clear that Rothko’s ideas for the building had no room for Johnson’s.

When the Rothko Room—which houses four of the Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s works in a snug, serene space—opened in 1960 at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, the artist’s wishes were ...