Timely twitting of Tate tagging: User reports vandalism of Mark Rothko painting
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Timely twitting of Tate tagging: User reports vandalism of Mark Rothko painting

New York City : NY : USA | Oct 08, 2012 at 3:22 AM PDT
Source: Russia Today
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A Renoir painting which was bought by a lucky American woman in a West Virginia flea market for just $7 could have been stolen from a museum decades ago...One of Rothko's signature Seagram murals got defaced after a black marker was used on the painting. "This guy calmly walked up, took out a marker pen... FULL ARTICLE AT Russia Today
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A woman views Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow", on display in 2008 during a preview at Sotheby's in New York
A woman views Mark Rothko's "Orange, Red, Yellow", on display in 2008 during a preview at Sotheby's in New York
 
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