MARK ROTHKO

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s father, Donald Blinken, a former U.S. diplomat, investment banker and modern art collector, has died.

Painters have long been the subject of stage shows — think Mark Rothko, Seurat, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Lucian Freud.

Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.

Invited to write a new work for Houston's Rothko Chapel, the composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey created a work that is both intimate and vast, like those Mark Rothko paintings.

Sotheby’s auction house announced Friday that it will offer 30 works from the Macklowe Collection on May 16 in New York. After they split in 2016, a judge ordered the collection sold as part of the divorce settlement. Sculptures by Picasso, Alberto Giacometti and Jeff Koons are also among the works on offer in the sale, the second from the Macklowe Collection. The first sale of 35 artworks in November netted $676 million -- the highest-ever total for a Sotheby’s auction. A public display of works from the May sale is planned at Sotheby’s in London from Tuesday until March 2.

Artworks by Pablo Picasso, Mark Rothko, Andy Warhol and other modern masters are going up for auction as part of a billionaire couple’s acrimonious divorce.

The Macklowe Collection, which included artwork by Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly, is the most valuable auction ever held in the 277-year history of Sotheby’s.

After years of legal wrangling, the art collection of real estate tycoon Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda Macklowe is headed for auction at Sotheby's.

An 18th century burial ground has been discovered at a former sugar plantation on the Dutch Caribbean island of St. Eustatius, officials said Monday, and archaeologists said it likely contains the remains of slaves and could provide a trove of information on the lives as enslaved people. Government officials said 48 skeletons had been found at the site so far, most of them males, but also some females and infants. Alexandre Hinton, the director of the St. Eustatius Center for Archaeological Research, said many more remains were expected to lie in the graves at the former Golden Rock Plantation.

Painter Guy Stanley Philoche, a 43-year-old Haitian immigrant and star in the New York art world, sit among some of his latest work during an interview at his East Harlem studio, Thursday Nov. 19, 2020, in New York. "I'm not a rich man," he said, "but I owe a big debt to the art world." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)NEW YORK – Painter Guy Stanley Philoche, a star in the New York art world, had wanted to treat himself to a fancy watch after a hugely successful gallery show. “I'm not a rich man," he said, "but I owe a big debt to the art world. About half the artists Philoche has chosen are people he knows, many in New York.

FILE - This Oct. 29, 2009 file photo shows Father Bill Moore with one of his pieces of art in his studio at the Pomona Arts Colony in Pomona, Calif. Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died. Longtime friend Tom Irwin says Moore died Sunday, Oct. 18, 2020 of prostate cancer. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)LOS ANGELES – Father Bill Moore, a Catholic priest and prominent abstract expressionist who spent decades spreading spiritualism through his paintings, has died at age 71. Moore died Sunday at a Southern California hospice, his longtime friend and art representative, Tom Irwin, told The Associated Press on Monday. “I was doing little abstract paintings when I was a little boy, like around 8, 9 years old,” he told The Associated Press in 2009.

MoneyWatch: Wall Street awaits consumer data; Pricey paintings up for auction Investors will watch to see if strong retail sales and consumer sentiment numbers will spark a change in the Fed's monetary policy. Also, two Mark Rothko paintings could fetch up to tens of millions together at auction this fall. Karina Mitchell reports on the day's top MoneyWatch headlines.