Mark Rothko, Untitled. Signed and dated 1961 on the reverse. Oil on canvas, 93? x 80? in. (236.5 x 203.5 cm) Est. $18/25 million. On 12 May 2010 Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale will offer works by some of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, [...]

Modern masterworks by celebrated artists including Jackson Pollock, Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse will be featured in an upcoming University of Iowa Museum of Art (UIMA)-organized exhibition at the Figge Art Museum, 225 West Second St. in downtown Davenport, IA. Jackson Pollock, “Mural,” 1943, oil on canvas, 8′ 1 1/4″ x 19′ 10″. The exhibition, [...]

Installation view of “Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976” at the Jewish Museum. Art is long, art criticism is often very, very brief, its Internet afterlife notwithstanding. Its viability relies on a mixture of prose style, sound-bite-able concepts, timing and its ability to clarify visual experience. Naming a major art movement can also [...]