Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko was never quite an American painter – not in the same way that Pollock or de Kooning ever were. He never quite left the old world, Nietzsche and Aeschylus were his best friends. A major retrospective exhibition: Into an Unknown World, takes place at the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, until August 14, 2010. Finally, the country he left but never returned to has recognised the genuis of his colour field paintings.