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New York Times Review of the exhibition
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22 January 1961
IS LESS MORE, AND WHEN FOR WHOM?; Rothko Show Raises Questions About Painters, Critics and Audience
By John CANADAY
MARK ROTHKO, who is the subject of a large exhibition that has just opened at the Museum of Modern Art, is a Russian-born American painter who for the last ten years has devoted his energy to painting hazy-edged rectangles of color that float in space of another color, in the manner of the illustration below.
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