http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/mark-rothko-painting-defaced-at-the-tate-modern-8201199.html
and also, read this hyperallergic.com article and scroll down to read all the nonsense about "yellowism"
http://hyperallergic.com/58144/rothko-defaced-at-tate-modern/
If I've learned anything today it's don't put off seeing paintings by your favorite artists at free galleries. See them all now before some asshole tags them up with a felt marker.
What blows my mind is that people have time to tweet, "Yeah, I couldn't believe it, I saw the guy walk right up to the painting and do it," but they don't have time to wrestle the troll to the ground and break his goddamn fingers. I mean, it wasn't my favorite Rothko, but, it was a Rothko I've never seen and a Rothko I never will see. Grr. If only there was a way to describe what I'm feeling!
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