Rothko

Old Bones, New Flesh: Sonnabend's Twomblys

Daniel Maidman | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Pollock, Abstract Art, Cy Twombly, Drawing, Dada, Manet, Rothko, Sonnabend, Korine, Albers, Arts News
Daniel Maidman

Twombly does not exist outside of visual art, like pure Dada, which is essentially conceptual. He subscribes to the visual tradition. This gives him the affinity and perspective to pull a Korine with it, to scrape off the flesh until the bones of grammar emerge.

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Rediscovering the Painting (and Influence) of Willem de Kooning's Lover

Asher Edelman | Posted 06.02.2012

Read More: Mary Abbot, Willem De Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Abstract Expressionism, Southampton, Rothko, Motherwell, Gorky, Willem De Kooning's Lover, Arts News
Asher Edelman

Imagine an overlooked protagonist in the narrative of Abstract Expressionism, a crucial figure in the New York Post-war art scene whose story is only now surfacing. That artist is Mary Abbott.

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Van Gogh to Rothko in 30 Seconds

Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: Video, Iphone Artcircles, Viral Video, Artcircles, Yves Behar, From Van Gogh to Rothko, Curator App, Art App, Ipad Art App, Rothko, Artcircles App, Van Gogh, Arts News

If you are anything like us you constantly mix and match your favorite artworks into your own imaginary exhibitions. Well now there is an app that und...

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The Museum As Transcendent Space

Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Fred Tomaselli, Contemporary Art, Newspapers, Barnett Newman, Rothko, Libraries, Art Museums, George Segal, Arts News
Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson

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Rothko's 'Volcanic' Character Explored In Play 'Red'

Times | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Rothko Play, Rothko Life, Michael Grandage, Alfred Molina, Theater, Mark Rothko, Plays, Rothko, Red, New York, Biography, Performance, Arts News

The most astonishing sequence in "Red," John Logan's 2011 Tony Award-winning play about a tumultuous moment in the career of Mark Rothko, the master A...

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Art Dealer Arrested For $2 Million Of Fake Art

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Jackson Pollock, Forgeries, Vincent Van Gogh, Guggenheim, Fbi, Rothko, Van Gogh, Moma, Art Fake, Art Scam, Monet, Art Crime, Vero Beach, Forged, Matthew Taylor, Florida, Museum of Modern Art, Claude Monet, Pollock, Art Scandal, Fake, Arts News

Is the signature on your Monet a little too legible? It could be a fake; word is they're going around. A former art dealer was arrested in South F...

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New Rothko Discovered

wsj.com | KELLY CROW | Posted 06.16.2011

Read More: New York, Mark Rothko, Untitled #17, New Rothko, Christie's, Abstract Expressionism, Rothko, Painting, Art Auctions, Arts News

Mark Rothko, a master of Abstract Expressionism, is known to have created 835 paintings during the course of his five-decade career. Christie's claims...

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1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Greatest Generation, The Tonight Show, The Roaring Twenties, Hula-Hoops, Sarah Vaughn, Zeitgeist, The Millennial Generation, Marilyn Monroe, Lawrence Olivier, Fred Kaplan, Brando, Dave Brubeck, Guggenheim Museum, Slate Magazine, On the Waterfront, Dinah Washington, Non-Objective Art, I Love Lucy, The Today Show, Bill Haley, Robert Heinlein, James Dean, 1959: The Year Everything Changed, The Silent Generation, Rockabilly, Paul Newman, Abstract Expressionism, Joe Barrett, Jaspar Johns, Chuck Berry, Vladimir Nabokov, Frisbee, Doctor Zhivago, Peanuts. Playboy Magazine, Charlotte's Web, Ingmar Bergman, Rock and Roll, Don't Ask Don't Telll, Jerry Mulligan, David Halberstam, Fats Domino, The Civil Rights Movement, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Dizzy Gillespie, The Fifties, Rothko, Tolkein, Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, Jackson Pollack, Elvis, John Coltrane, Ayn Rand, Martin and Lewis, Modern Jazz, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lenny Bruce, Charlie Parker, The Me Generation, Jack Kerouac, Ella Fiztgerald, The Cold War, Kandinsky, Ray Bradbury, Micro Chip, Sputnik, Brown v. Board of Education, Audible.com, De Kooning, Little Rock, Gen-X, Pepsi Cola, Arthur C. Clarke, Duck-and-Cover, Catcher in the Rye, James Bond, Mort Sahl, The Great Depression, Asimov, Fellini, Books News
Tom Alderman

Fred Kaplan's enlivening 1959: The Year Everything Changed, argues that the '50s -- a decade that saw the invention of the microchip and the creation of explosive art -- has been misunderstood in hindsight.

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Obama's Modern Art (PHOTOS): White House's New Art On Display

AP | NANCY BENAC | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: White House, Glenn Ligon, Michelle Obama, National Gallery, Obama Art, Modern Art, Slidepoll, Jeri Redcorn, Richard Feigin, Rothko, Obamas Paintings, Ruscha, Barack Obama, Obamas Art, Modern Art White House, William Allman, White House History, Interior Decorating, Hirshorn Museum, Hirshorn Musuem and Sculpture Garden, Art Collection, Harry Copper, Jasper Johns, Abstract, Alma Thomas, Michael Smith, Patents, Alma Thomas Obama, Obama White House Art Collection, Style News

WASHINGTON (AP) You can't see it, but there's a quiet cultural revolution under way at the White House. The Obamas are decorating their private space...

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Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mad Men, Bill Clinton, 1960s, Jon Hamm, Advertising, January Jones, Matthew Weiner, Hillary Clinton, Don Draper, John F. Kennedy, Pop Art, Rothko, Entertainment News
William Bradley

I've been thinking about the arc of the series, from 1960 to 1963. Where has the series been, where is it now, and where might it be going with creator Matthew Weiner?

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Art Brut Goes Mainstream

Vivian Norris | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Twombly, Art Brut, Frieze, Krusi, Fine Arts Museum, Judith Rothscild, Rothko, Hans Ullrich Obrist, Widener, Moma, The Inner Life, Andrew Edlin, Houston, The Museum of Everything, Outsider Art, Art Market Financial Crisis, Museumm of American Folk Art, Contemporary Art, Menil Collection, Henry Darger, Healthy Living News
Vivian Norris

For me, that is true art. The artist becomes a kind of healer/shaman; and we who finally have access to these miraculous pieces, become initiated into worlds which take us places we have never been before.

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Rothko Painting May Sell For $40M At Christie's

Bloomberg | Linda Sandler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Auction Houses, Rothkos, Expensive Paintings, Rothko, Christie's, Francois Pinault, Art Auctions, Auction Record, Business News

Christie's International, the auction house owned by French billionaire Francois Pinault, is gearing up for its New York sales in May with a Mark Roth...

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