Red (2018)

Mark Rothko, the superstar of American painting, the favorite of Rockefellers and Kennedy, the most expensive contemporary painter; and his young assistant Ken. The intrigue of the play is the internal struggle of Rothko against the "pops" of his next project, a series of large canvases ordered by the pathetic Manhattan restaurant Four Seasons. This struggle results in an hour and a half of heated discussions between the artist and his assistant about the art of the past and the present, its “purity” and venality, its meaning and purpose, about Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Matisse and Andy Warhol, whom Rothko, of course, hates, and Ken, Of course, worships.