Tate Modern puts defaced Rothko back on display

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LONDON (AP) — How do you rebuild a Rothko? Slowly and with great care.

London’s Tate Modern put Mark Rothko’s 1958 mural “Black on Maroon” back on display Tuesday, more than a year and a half after it was defaced with indelible black ink by a vandal trying to draw attention to an obscure artistic movement.

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