Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American society b[...]
Leo Castelli reigned for decades as America's most influential art dealer. Now Annie Cohen-Solal, author of the hugely acclaimed "Sartre: A Life" ("an intimate portrait of the man that possesses all the detail and resonance of fiction"--Michiko Kakutani, "The New York Times"), recounts his incalcula[...]