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A retrospective exhibition in Paris holds so much beauty that visitors may miss how the artist, exhausted, painted himself into a corner.

American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) and rectangles had a long and intimate 20-year relationship. His paintings display almost exclusively those geometric shapes, that art critics describe as: “soft-edged rectangular fields

The artist’s complex paper works dazzle in Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, on view through March 31 at the National Gallery of Art.

David Platzer on “Mark Rothko” at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris.

This is your chance to see Rothko’s paintings on paper as he intended them — many of them are exhibited without the protective intercession of museum…

The Fondation Louis Vuitton is exploring Mark Rothko's life, presenting the first major show in France dedicated to the artist since 1999.

Walking through the lawn that separates the Menil Collection and its park to the east from the Rothko Chapel in Houston’s Montrose neighborhood, I am not particularly struck by the type of transcendent beauty for which I am told to prepare myself. There is a group doing yoga on the lawn, everyone spaced 6 feet apart on colorful mats. People read books and lower their masks to chat. A docent wanders around the main attraction, between the Chapel’s entrance and Barnett Newman’s “Broken Ob...