“Once Rothko said that ‘The people who weep before my pictures, are having the same religious experiences I had when painting them.’ This is exactly what happened to me. I find myself in the Rothko Chapel, uncontrollably crying, overwhelmed with the mixture betweensilence, melancholy, sensuality, tragedy.”
- Marina Abramović
𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢 in his 69th Street studio with Rothko Chapel murals, c. 1964, @rothko_chapel
📸 Hans Namuth
© Hans Namuth Estate, courtesy Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona
Artwork © 2025 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ ARS
A small but mostly unseen picture from the session
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