This week’s Top exhibitions to view includes:
A cow’s head, black history, fluttering decomposition, football, explosions, a rusted flag and minimalism.
YOU ARE BROWSING: Mark Rothko
Francis Bacon’s painting gloves are going to auction
The paint-splattered gloves are proof that we worship artists’ relics – from Turner’s paintbox to Pollock’s brushes – as traces of genius in their own right
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Continue Reading...Man jailed for two years for vandalising £5m Rothko at Tate Modern
Wlodzimierz Umaniec claimed writing his name and a slogan in black paint was an act of ‘yellowism’ comparable to Duchamp
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Man inscribes words in black ink in corner of 1958 canvas Black on Maroon before quickly leaving room
Continue Reading...Tate Modern’s rehang cannot diminish the majesty of Mark Rothko
The space reserved for the painter’s mural-sized masterpieces might be modest, but his dark vision still blazes bright
Continue Reading...Reece Whitehead answers FADs Questions
An idea can come from anywhere from a very serious subject or something playful. I’m still unclear to what it is that makes me want to paint it.
Continue Reading...Adam Walker answers FADs Questions
I’m very interested in loss and memorialization. Death is the universal fear that so much art has historically grappled with and I suppose my work continues in that vein.
Continue Reading...Rothko, Hockney and Piero della Francesca – the week in art
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