21. (Downtown)

By Raphael Rubinstein

OCT 2020 | The Miraculous

A young artist full of admiration for Mark Rothko and abstraction in general is unsatisfied with her own paintings because they don’t seem to address the pressing problems in the world around her.

The Start of the Gottlieb Foundation

By Sanford Hirsch

DEC 18-JAN 19 | Critics Page

The idea for a foundation to help older artists started in a discussion between Adolph Gottlieb and Mark Rothko in the late 1960s. Mark Rothko died in February, 1970; Gottlieb in March, 1974. Both artists left similar instructions to establish foundations to help individual artists.

John Giorno: The Life and Death of a Poet

By Penny Arcade

DEC 19-JAN 20 | In Memoriam

On October 11th 2019 the pioneering poet, painter and artistic entrepreneur left his body at 222 Bowery, the Queen Anne Romanesque Revival style building built in 1880 as the first YMCA in New York. Giorno lived there since 1962, spread out over three lofts in this building, which was once honeycombed with the studios of countless artists including Mark Rothko and Fernand Léger