Restoring Rothko

There is a special place in hell for the person who vandalised Mark Rothko's painting 'Black on Maroon' at Tate Modern in 2012.
Here is a fascinating video showing the conservators painstaking process to restore the paintings surface.

Filmed over 18 months, this is the story behind the restoration of Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon'. Mark Rothko's 'Black on Maroon' 1958 goes back on public view at Tate Modern on 13 May 2014, following 18 months of intensive work by the Conservation team and colleagues across Tate.

'Beyond Caravaggio' at The National Gallery

Explore the influence of one of art's most infamous and revolutionary figures in our exhibition 'Beyond Caravaggio'. Opens 12 October 2016. 'Beyond Caravaggio' is the first major exhibition in the UK to explore the influence of Caravaggio on the art of his contemporaries and followers.

Lawrence Weiner: The Means to Answer Questions

An interview with the legendary conceptual artist Lawrence Weiner about the connection between cruelty, hierarchy and rationality. The artist must ask questions past ordinary logic, he says. In this interview Weiner philosophises on how the artist can present things people might not have noticed. Art is not meant to answer questions, but rather to ask them.

"An artist every day takes the chance of going mad, because you find yourself in situations that are past the point of logic you understand. You have to re-adapt your own logic, just to be able to communicate with somebody else."
Lawrence Weiner: The Means to Answer Questions

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AscU8wKzbbE

The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear

What happened on the December night in 1888 when Vincent van Gogh took a blade to his own ear?

To mark the exhibition: On the Verge of Insanity at the +Van Gogh Museum  in Amsterdam, Jeremy Paxman joins art sleuth Bernadette Murphy on her amazing quest to discover the truth - what exactly did the artist do, why did he do it and who was the unknown girl he is said to have handed his severed ear to, her real identity kept secret by her family for over a century?

The Illusion of Truth - Veritasium

"With sharing and repeating ideas easier than ever before we need to be more vigilant to distinguish between those things that are really true and those we have simply heard many times before.
The more something is repeated the more it starts to feel true"
 

If you repeat something enough times, it comes to feel good and true. More info on cognitive ease: http://bit.ly/29OMGas This episode was inspired by the book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.