Restoring 5 Harvard Rothkos, Minus The Actual Restoration

Conservators “used X-rays and spectrometers to distinguish paint layers and identify the pigments in Rothko’s paints, as well as enhancements of the original Ektachrome photographs taken of the murals when they were installed.” They then created “software that will use a digital projector as a light source to augment those now missing colors on the original canvases.”