Summary of the day's rollercoaster drama since Katherine has locked and it is hard for readers to piece together Preface: 3 days ago Katherine tweets photo in front of a rothko. The tweet goes micro-viral, leading to rothko and girl-in-front-of-object discourse— https://t.co/ZD318M0U7m

The more upset I became, the more I felt that my sensitivity towards the paintings was the same sensitivity I held when I was the subject of the photographs. The uncomfortable, complex, and often difficult intimacy of the paintings characterizes their timeless humanity. The photograph of these paintings is just a collection of symbols, of words in... See more

He would subsequently reflect on this encounter: “The brochure advised me that it was a haystack. I had no idea what that was. This non-recognition was excruciatingly distressing for me. The painter, in my opinion, had no right to depict incoherently. I had a distinct impression that the painting’s subject was absent. And I was surprised and

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