Rothkos late paintings, galleries respond to the climate crisis and Nicolas Poussin

Published: Oct. 14, 2021, 11:01 p.m.

b'This week, as the Frieze art fairs open and the international art world descends on London, we talk about Mark Rothko\\u2019s late paintings, now on view at Pace\\u2019s new space in the British capital, with his son Christopher. He also reflects on Rothko\\u2019s Seagram Mural paintings, which are now back at Tate Britain, close to JMW Turner\\u2019s works, as Rothko had hoped when he gave them to the Tate. Louisa Buck talks to Heath Lowndes, managing director of the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC), a charity founded by galleries across the world in response to the climate emergency\\u2014the GCC has a booth at the Frieze London fair. And, for this episode\\u2019s Work of the Week, Ben Luke visits Poussin and the Dance, a show at the National Gallery in London that travels to the Getty Center in Los Angeles next year. There, Francesca Whitlum-Cooper, the show\\u2019s curator, tells us about Poussin\\u2019s obsession with the Borghese Dancers, an ancient Roman bas-relief now in the Louvre, and how the French artist responded to it in his painting.


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