(originally posted on www.ko-fi.com/bjornlarssen)

If I could own one work of art, it would be Cathedra by Barnett Newman.

I’ve never been into abstract paintings. I find Rothko interesting mostly because I wonder how he got so many people to fall for it. (Did you know that towards the end of his life he received an order to decorate a ship with his paintings, and he had his students paint them all under his direction? But you can bet the students didn’t get to sign them.) So, seeing this paintin...