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Rothko's methods revealed Rothko: the Late Series Tate Modern, London Until 1 February 2009
Mark Rothko's Seagram murals, commissioned in 1958 to decorate the Four Seasons restaurant in the Seagram Building in New York, are famous for their layers of translucent and opaque paints that produce a luminous and ephemeral quality.
Rothko was notoriously secretive about his methods, refusing to let even his studio assistants watch him paint. Yet the clues he left within the murals have informed conservators of the variety of materials he used and his...