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In Pictures | Rothko Chapel’s 50th anniversary celebrated in new publication
The Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko created 14 paintings for the chapel but did not live to see it completed
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Six of the best catalogues raisonnés
From Leonardo to Bacon, take your pick from a selection of essential texts on leading artists
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Giacometti, De Chirico and Alfa Romeo cars lead Sotheby's $283m New York sales after major museum works abruptly pulled
Following weeks of controversy, the Baltimore Museum of Art withdrew two paintings just hours before the auction while many other works sold near low estimates
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T-Rex takes on Twombly at Christie's $341m 20th-century evening sale
Unusual $32m Jurassic-era offering stole the high-tech livestreamed show in New York, but buyers kept bids cautious elsewhere
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Florida man who bought a Rothko from Sotheby’s using a stolen identity sentenced to 4.5 years in prison
The interior decorator was convicted of conspiracy to commit wire fraud for buying art from galleries, auction houses and collectors using his wealthy clients’ credentials
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After a discovery, Rothko Chapel moves to shore up its walls
Lack of steel reinforcement results in a plan to insert rebar, delaying the reopening of the Modernist sanctuary
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Hollywood executive Ron Meyer files $10m lawsuit over alleged forged Rothko
The NBCUniversal vice chairman and co-founder of Creative Artists Agency claims two art dealers duped him into buying the fake painting for nearly $1m in 2001
Podcast
Should museums sell works of art? Plus, activism at the Whitney Biennial
After the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's sale of its Rothko, we discuss the principles that guide deaccessioning in the US and speak to activists about the Whitney vice-chairman's problematic link to a weapons manufacturer
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San Francisco museum's Rothko sells for $50m as Sotheby’s closes bumper week of New York auctions
Dana Schutz’s record broken twice in one night at Phillips then Sotheby's, while the bidder behind the $91m Koons Rabbit buys Lee Krasner painting for $10m
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The music of Mark Rothko finally sounds in the land of Mozart
First exhibition in Austria reveals Abstract Expressionist’s identification with the work of the Old Masters
NewsConservation & Preservation
Rothko Chapel to be restored, and gain auxiliary buildings
Artist's son says the project will "do right by my father’s vision for the space"
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SFMoMA to sell a Rothko estimated at $35m to $50m
Proceeds would go toward acquisitions that “address art historical gaps’’
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White supremacist messages and paint spread outside Rothko Chapel in Houston
The historic art installation created as a "sacred space for reflection" was restored and reopened on Monday
BlogThe Buck stopped here
Paint and pronouncements fly as Alfred Molina reprises Rothko in West End revival of Red
NewsArt market
Analysis: Christie's postwar and contemporary auction nets $785.9m, with a big assist from an Old Master
Despite buy-ins, the sale saw several strong prices and records below the dizzy height of $450.3m for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi
ArchiveMarch 2015
Collector Frank Fertitta discovers his 'Rothko' is a Knoedler fake after reading The Art Newspaper
He is now suing former employees of the gallery
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Tate celebrates return of restored Rothko
The product of 9 months of restoration leaves no traces of graffiti ink
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Christie’s sold fake Knoedler Rothko ‘worth’ $4m
Christie's finds itself caught up in the ongoing forgery scandal
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Rothko’s children condemn Tate vandalism
One of Tate Modern's Rothkos is defaced in the name of art
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Rothko and Sugimoto set the pace at Pace
Monochromatic works by both artists will be juxtaposed in Pace's new London location
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New projects: The Rothko art centre
Daugavpils
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Disgraced Madoff investor’s Rothkos turn up in Moscow
J. Ezra Merkin offloads $310 million collection
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Horizontal or vertical? The Revolving Rothkos debate
Tate Debate: The verdict.
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Why the Tate turned down Rothko’s offer of 30 paintings
Archives reveal the events behind director Norman Reid’s decision to accept only nine of the artist’s pictures
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Rothko’s remains to be moved
The artist's children petition successfully for his disinterment
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Revealed: Royal family of Qatar is buyer of world’s most expensive Hirst
The ruling Al-Thanis bought the artist’s Lullaby Spring at Sotheby’s last year for £9.7m and are also believed to have purchased the Rockefeller Rothko for $72.8m
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Rothko comes to Rome for the first time since 1970
The 70 painting strong exhibition will be in the newly reopened Palazzo delle Esposizioni
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Books: Less opportunism and more rigour in study of Rothko, please
The 10 essays of Seeing Rothko are distinctly varied in quality
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Rothko exhibition for China and South Korea
The travelling exhibition will be the first major show on the artist in either country
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Books: Mark Rothko himself provides an important piece of the Ab Ex jigsaw puzzle
Rothko’s meditation on how to reconcile physical experience with ideas
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What's On in '03: Abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart at Knoedler & Company
His mythic heads and forms appear in paintings and drawings (1935-42) on show in New York
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Avery, Gottlieb and Rothko together again at Knoedler & Company
Exploring the interchange between these iconic artists
ArchiveArt market
Post-War and Contemporary sale report: where have all the Warhols gone?
Record prices for Andreas Gursky, Peter Doig, Luciano Fabro and Douglas Gordon
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What's on in New York: From Neo-Classicism to Pop Art
A Rothko double-header at PaceWildenstein and Washburn, Lichtenstein’s brushstrokes legacy at Mitchell-Innes & Nash while Gagosian installs “Brushstroke” at the Seagram building Plaza
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What's on in Berlin: From Rothko to wrappings
A selection of shows at the leading contemporary and modern galleries
ArchiveRothko Chapel
Rothko Chapel enters the National Register of Historical Places 20 years early
The non-denominational chapel located in Texas is known both for it's site-specific Rothkos and it's advocacy for human rights
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Mitchell Prize names David Anfam winner for Rothko catalogue raisonné that “sets new standards”
Adriaen de Vries takes the new award for the outstanding exhibition catalogue
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Unveiled: the newly restored Rothko Chapel
A $1.8 million project saves both paintings and the contemplative space designed by the artist himself
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“Mark Rothko”, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Until 18 April
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Shedding light on Rothko’s light: Abstract Expressionism at the National Gallery of Art
The biggest show of the artist’s work for over twenty years derails the view that his highly charged colour-field paintings were a reflection of his moods
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Books: The Rothko chapel and religious art without God
A study in obscurity for the twenty-fifth anniversary
ArchiveCatalogues raisonnés
Books: A catalogue raisonné for Mark Rothko
Only Gorky and Pollock of his peers has so far been catalogued
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What's on in Switzerland: Good Rothko and Mark Tobey shows
In a quiet month a chance to see some classic modern art
ArchiveExhibitions
Minimalist masterpieces on show in Sydney
The Drill Hall Gallery is showing works by Mark Rothko and Frank Stella, among others
CommentMark Rothko
Rothko deserves better, SFMoMA
The San Francisco museum plans to sell Untitled (1960) at Sotheby's for between $35m and $50m, the artist is unlikely to have approved
Ben Luke