04 April 2024, The Tablet

The sound of silence

by Benjamin Poore

Feldman was a great composer of silences – pregnant, lingering caesurae punctuating his scores.

The sound of silence

Secret mystery: Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon (1959), one of the Seagram Murals
ALAMY / AUL QUEZADA NEIMAN

 
How can we hear what a painting has to tell us? There’s nowhere better to start than with the work of Mark Rothko, as Benjamin Poore explains.
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