“Rothko’s work is pretty much all about the color, so the murals, in their faded condition, seemed to be dead … [and] it was impossible to restore them by conventional means. So a solution was borrowed from a technique known as ‘compensating illumination’ … Five digital projectors have been programmed to light the canvases so that the original colors reappear. At four o’clock every day, the projectors are turned off one by one, and the colors revert to (mostly) muddy blacks and grays. … As one observer put it, when the lights go off, comedy turns into tragedy.”