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Artforum – A child damaged a Mark Rothko painting estimated to be worth $57 million at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands, last week during what a museum spokesperson told Dutch news outlet Algemeen Dagblad was an “unguarded moment.” The canvas, Grey, Orange on Maroon, No. 8, 1960, which is about seven and a half feet high and eight and a half feet wide, sustained scratches in the unvarnished paint layer of its lower region. It had been on view in an exhibition of collection highlights at the Depot, a publicly accessible storage facility adjoining the main museum, which is closed through at least 2030 for renovations. – read more