"There is more power in telling little than telling all.” — Mark Rothko On the occasion of our first in-depth presentation of Rothko's paintings in over a decade, read about the contemplative pleasures of the artist’s work on MoMA Magazine. | MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Rothko’s paintings at Tate Modern are the subject of West End play Red. Watch the director & cast explore the Rothko room with Tate Modern's Director Frances Morris and discuss what it was like to bring the artist's painting process to the stage. Full film here: https://goo.gl/pZXJMF | Tate

🗣️ Listen to Mark Rothko’s son discuss his father’s painting and the inspiration behind it! This painting depicts two creatures dancing between sea and sky, surrounded by arabesques, spirals, and stripes. The forms “have no direct association with any particular visible experience, but in them one recognizes the principle and passion of organisms,” artist Mark Rothko said. For Rothko, art was “an adventure into an unknown world”; like the Surrealists before him, Rothko looked inward, to his own