Sotheby's employees display a painting by Mark Rothko titled "Untitled (Yellow and Blue)" at the Sotheby's auction house in London. At its contemporary art auction in New York on May 12, Sotheby's is ...

Both possessed a specifically Jewish imagination and narrowed down their pictorial language to forms that expressed mystical aspects of their ancestral culture and faith. In Newman’s case it was the ‘ ...

Born September 25, in Dvinsk, Russia, to Jacob Rothkowitz and Anna Goldin Rothkowitz. He begins teaching children at the Center Academy of the Brooklyn Jewish Center. Rothko continues teaching here ...

Mark Rothko’s work (1903 - 1970), it is sometimes proposed, has a therapeutic effect on its viewers. From my own experience, I can confirm this uncanny metaphysical pull of Rothko. Whenever I struggle ...