Visual Art Digging Up Rothko
posted by on April 8 at 18:02 PM
Mark Rothko, Black on Maroon
The Rothko children want to move their dead parents, the New York Times reports. It brings back a painful episode from the history of 20th-century art, and it’s also just … weird.
Lee Seldes' "The Legacy of Mark Rothko" is a pretty fascinating account of the painful episode in question.
Dig him up... He would still make better work than some artists working today...even as a dead guy.
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K Thnx.
NY Times, not NY Post.
BIG difference. Sorry.
For people who care about this:
1) most newshounds already are registered with the NYT site
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3) You said it, BugMeNot.
tinlc / tinlc still works at the NYT. This is not the lumber cartel.
Rothko in books is boring.
Rothko in person is good.
@5: I would disagree with point #1. And I'm a news editor.
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