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We reached out to David Anfam, a Mark Rothko scholar and head of the Rothko catalogue raisonné project, to ask about the importance of "Untitled (Black on Maroon)" (1958) and the possible challenges facing the conservation of the work after Sunday's incident.
News
The Metropolitan Police have just announced via Twitter that a man has been apprehended for the Rothko incident at the Tate Modern.
Opinion
The reaction in 140 characters or less after today's Rothko incident at the Tate Modern has been overwhelming … including some people who seemed to enjoy the news.
News
A Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern in London has been defaced by a vandal.
Art
BERKELEY, California — I just moved to Berkeley, California after living in Brooklyn for two years and the second arts institution I visited was SFMoMA (the first was the Luggage Store gallery but I didn't have my camera with me). The museum is not unpleasant but has an odd construction with a consi
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It all started with a write-up on the Gallerist blog about Jordan Eagles’s new show at the Krause Gallery where his blood paintings are currently displayed. I immediately cringed when I went on a journey following all of his press, posts about him on Facebook and Twitter, and real life opinions with
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Hyperallergic writers and siblings Brendan and Marisa Carroll recently attended a screening of David Cronenberg’s Cosmopolis at Walter Reade Theater in New York, which was followed by a Q-and-A session with the director. Here they review the film and tease out the artistic influences that inform Cro
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CHICAGO — Of all the museums in Chicago, the one that keeps surprising me and making me go back is the Museum of Contemporary Art.
Interview
Painter Regina Bogat has been involved the New York art world since the 1950s. (I promised not to reveal her age.) She had her first solo exhibition in the city in 1956, at Terrain Gallery, and her most recent one, Stars, which features colorful, vigorously messy paintings of different variations on
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Some New Yorkers read or stare out the window during subway rides, Derek Brahney draws iPhone Rothkos.
Interview
If you're near Columbia University, there's an art show that sounds worthwhile exploring and it's devoted to water. The Cathedral of St. John, which has long had an established art program, is tackling the topic of H2O in their current art show that features some major artists, including Jenny Holze
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Mana Contemporary and the Eileen S. Kaminsky Family Foundation have a meticulous show of photorealist artwork, titled Our Own Directions. The exhibition, on view from now until January 2012, features painting, sculpture and photography from the private collection of Louis K. and Susan P. Meisel.