There are no angels in Mark Rothko’s work: only the ascendancy of glorious color.
Mark Rothko
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.
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.
Visual Arts Review: Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals — Splendidly Revived
Harvard’s team of magicians have brought the Rothko murals back to life.
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).
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.
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.
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.