99% Invisible

347- The Many Deaths of a Painting

03.27.2019 - By Roman MarsPlay

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When Barnett Newman’s painting Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was placed in the Sedelijk museum it was meant to be provocative, but one reaction that it received was so intense, so violent, it set off a chain of events that shook the art world to its core.

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