Mark Rothko

Rohtko | Athens | May 25-28

Up-and-coming Polish director Lukasz Twarkowski is making his Greek debut at Athens' Onassis Cultural Center (onassis.org) with a theater-video art-film spectacle inspired by the notorious case of a fake Mark Rothko painting that was sold for 8.5 million US dollars by a famous New York art gallery.

Sotheby’s to sell $600 mln of art from Macklowe divorce

Sotheby's has won the rights to sell the highly sought-after Macklowe art collection, valued at more than $600 million, the auction house announced Sept. 9.

The trove, which includes works by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and Mark Rothko, was the subject of a bitter legal dispute following the high-profile divorce of New York real estate developer Harry Macklowe and his ex-wife Linda.