Watching Them Turn Off the Rothkos

Mark Rothko’s Harvard murals, “Panel One,” “Panel Two,” and “Panel Three,” Holyoke Center, 1964.Photograph Courtesy Harvard Art Museums © President and Fellow of Harvard College. Every afternoon at four o’clock, people gather on the third floor of the Harvard Art Museums to watch them turn off the Rothkos. The Rothkos are the series of murals that Mark Rothko painted, more than fifty years ago, on

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これを思い出す。“there were no guards around to warn diners about splashing food and drink on the canvases, or bumping their chairs into them when they got up to use the restroom. It was a working dining room, not an art gallery or a chapel”