Tech Dirt
Perhaps this "but I improved it" defense of defacing artwork is becoming more common. Apparently, a prankster, who claims to be pushing his own art movement, defaced a multi-million dollar Mark Rothko painting hanging at the Tate Modern gallery...
Gawker
Ass Clown Defaces Rothko Mural, Says He Did the Work a Favor You're a frustrated "conceptual artist." You have invented an "-ism" and named the movement after the color of pee: Yellowism. You even drafted a completely incoherent manifesto about your...
United Press International
Authorities Monday were looking for a man who said his defacement of a painting at Tate Modern in London was in itself an act of artistic expression. The man, who identified himself as Vladimir Umanets, scrawled "Vladimir Umanets, A Potential Piece...
The Independent
The family of Mark Rothko have spoken out over the act of vandalism carried out on one of the Tate Modern's prized examples of the artist's work, but said they were heartened by the response from the British public. One of the abstract expressionist...
SF Gate
A Russian man has claimed responsibility for scrawling graffiti on a mural by modern American master Mark Rothko at London's Tate Modern museum, saying Monday he never intended to decrease the work's value. Scotland Yard has launched an investigation...
The Guardian
Red alert the defaced Mark Rothko Seagram painting at Tate Modern. Photograph: posted on Twitter Mark Rothko 's Seagram murals are great works of art that were given, free, to Britain. They are glories of our artistic heritage American marvels...