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4.07.2010

red


"Red," the play about Mark Rothko's commission for the Four Seasons, has been receiving much press lately. After deciding that the plush restaurant was not the proper place for his work, Rothko donated nine of the canvases to the Tate in 1969.


photo credit: Left, APIC/Getty Images; Sara Krulwich/The New York Times