American art

Reducing poetry to a science

25 July 2015 9:00 am

Is it possible to tell a good poem from a bad one? To put the question another way: are there…

‘Orange, Red, Yellow’, 1956, by Mark Rothko

Driven to abstraction

7 March 2015 9:00 am

Philip Hensher on the perverse, tormented Mark Rothko, whose anger and depression — often painfully apparent in his art — only increased with his success