Speaking the day after the incident, Vladimir Umanets told the BBC he did not 'deface' the painting A man who claims responsibility for defacing a painting by Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern has told the BBC: "I'm not a vandal." The painting, Black on Maroon, one of Rothko's Seagram murals, was written on with black paint on Sunday. Vladimir Umanets, founder of a movement he calls Yellowism, claims
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