Rothko painting defaced
A man has claimed responsibility for defacing a valuable Mark Rothko at the Tate Modern art gallery, but denied he is a vandal.
Why would someone deface a multi-million pound artwork?
The Assistant Editor of the Art Review magazine, Oliver Basciano, says there's a long history of artworks being defaced for political and so-called "artistic" reasons.
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