99% Invisible
99% Invisible
Roman Mars
347- The Many Deaths of a Painting
40 minutes Posted Mar 26, 2019 at 5:06 pm.
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When Barnett Newman’s painting Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was placed in the Stedelijk museum it was meant to be provocative, but one reaction that it received was so intense, so violent, it set off a chain of events that shook the art world to its core.

The Many Deaths of a Painting