Join us for a conversation about Mark Rothko’s life and work with three people who have contributed significantly to the public accessibility and understanding of his art: Rothko’s children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, and gallerist Arne Glimcher. Adam Greenhalgh, associate curator at the National Gallery and curator of Mark Rothko: Paintings on Paper, will moderate.
About the Presenters
Arne Glimcher is an art dealer, gallerist, and film producer. He has curated numerous exhibitions and written widely on the history of art. In 1960, he founded the Pace Gallery in Boston. Pace moved to New York shortly thereafter and has subsequently opened numerous international locations. Glimcher befriended Rothko in 1966 and has worked with his estate since 1978. He serves as chairman of Pace and helms 125 Newbury, a project space in New York City that opened in 2022. Glimcher has also produced and directed several films, including The Mambo Kings (1992) and Just Cause (1995).
Christopher Rothko is a psychologist, writer, and custodian of Rothko’s legacy. He is editor of his father’s book of philosophical writings, The Artist’s Reality (2004), and author of Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out (2015), both published by Yale University Press. Dr. Rothko has prepared more than two dozen Rothko exhibitions at museums and galleries around the globe and is cocurator of the artist’s first retrospective in France at the Fondation Louis Vuitton (October 18, 2023–February 2, 2024). He is past chair of the Rothko Chapel Board and is currently head of the Opening Spaces Campaign, guiding the restoration of the Chapel and enhancement of its campus.
Kate Rothko Prizel is a retired physician of clinical pathology and transfusion medicine and custodian of Rothko’s legacy. Dr. Prizel fought and won a prolonged legal battle that resulted in the return of almost 700 of her father’s works to his estate. She was involved in reconstituting the Mark Rothko Foundation, which donated the bulk of the art works to 35 museums worldwide. Together with Christopher Rothko, Dr. Prizel recently wrote a book on her father’s work (Mark Rothko, 2022).