Rothko in Britain - Whitechapel Gallery

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Mark Rothko's first solo show in Britain, held at the Whitechapel Gallery, this small exhibition features the original photographs from the archives and letters from the artist alongside his painting 'Light Red over Black'. It's always good to see a Rothko although to me he got better the darker his palette became until he had reduced it to just black and grey. 

An interesting point from the photos of the orginal exhibition is the amount of elderly women that seemingly attended. Maybe the photographer had a bias towards taking pictures of a few old ladies that attended but it did make me wonder if all the locals stumbled in off the street after bingo, 'ere what's all this rubbish Ethel', 'gawd knows Glad, a child could've done it'.