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Mark Rothko

Visual Arts Review: Prince of Pieces — Rothko at the MFA

There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko: Reflection, Museum of Fine Arts

Fuse Theater Review: An Uneven “Red” from the Peterborough Players

There is little for the audience to take away from Red, except the anecdotal dramatization of an event inspired by Mark Rothko’s career.

By: Jim Kates Filed Under: Featured, Review, Theater Tagged: abstract expressionism, Gus Kaikkonen, John Logan, Mark Rothko, Peterborough Players, Red

Book Review: Artist Mark Rothko — The Painter as Guru

Biographer Annie Cohen-Solal is perhaps strongest on one thread of Mark Rothko’s narrative: his experience as a Jewish immigrant.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Annie Cohen-Solal, Jewish Lives Series, Mark Rothko, Toward the Light in the Chapel, Yale-University-Press

Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived

Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Harvard-Art-Museums, Mark Rothko, Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals

Visual Arts Commentary: In a Room with Rothko

The Arts Fuse is pleased to announce that “In a Room With Rothko,” by Anthony Wallace, posted last year, was awarded a Pushcart Prize Special Mention in the Pushcart Prize XXXVIII Best of the Small Presses (Norton & Co, 2013).

By: Anthony Wallace Filed Under: Fuse News Tagged: Honorable Mention, John Logan, Mark Rothko, Pushcart Prize, SpeakEasy Stage Company, The Theater Now

Theater Review: A Visual Artist Looks at “Red”

Arts Fuse Critic (and visual artist) Franklin Einspruch reviews “Red,” a drama about Mark Rothko, and doesn’t like what he sees.

By: Franklin Einspruch Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Stage Interview: Thomas Derrah on the Appeal of “Red”

“Red” is about creativity and destruction, Apollonian rigor and Dionysian instinct, fathers and sons, love and rejection, life and death.

By: Tim Jackson Filed Under: Featured, Theater, Visual Arts Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

Theater Review: A Rewarding “Red”

“Red” is a drama about the modern artist and his place in art history: at its center, painter Mark Rothko confronts fame and the commoditization of creativity in the world of contemporary art.

By: Ian Thal Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: John Logan, Mark Rothko, Red, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Thomas Derrah

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