{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Episode 2: An Encounter in Spiritual Spaces with Mark Rothko and Fra Angelico | Christopher Rothko &\u00a0Carl\u00a0Strehlke","description":" When Mark Rothko visited Fra Angelico\u2019s frescoes at the convent of San Marco in Florence, he was \u2018overwhelmed,\u2019 recounts his son, the psychologist and writer Christopher Rothko. \u2018That\u2019s what he wanted for his viewer,\u2019 says Rothko, \u2018to look at his artwork as sources of inspiration, spirituality and contemplation.\u2019  In the second episode of the Frieze Masters Podcast 2025, Christopher Rothko is in conversation with curator and art historian Carl Strehlke and Arturo Galansino, director general of Palazzo Strozzi, to discuss the affinity between Rothko\u2019s abstract expressionism and the Italian renaissance, ahead of a landmark show of Rothko\u2019s work in Florence in 2026.  The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill \u2018Rothko in Florence\u2019 is on view at Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 14 March \u2013 26 July 2026 About the speakers Christopher Rothko is a writer, psychologist and son of artist Mark Rothko. He has written extensively on his father\u2019s legacy. Carl Strehlke is an art historian and curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. They are joined by their host Arturo Galansino, art historian, curator, director general of the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and this year\u2019s curator of the Frieze Masters Talks programme.  About the Frieze Masters Podcast  The Frieze Masters Podcast is back for 2025, bringing you seven conversations across art history curated by Arturo Galansino (Director General of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence).  Entitled \u2018Woven Histories\u2019 and recorded live at Frieze Masters 2025, this year\u2019s series features artists, curators and thinkers, whose conversations weave together geographies and chronologies, and challenge us to look at history in new and unexpected ways. Topics range from the evolving relationship between fashion and art to the role of the archive in Black history, the last Mughals and their cultural influence in India and the enduring inspiration of the old masters and renaissance art on contemporary making. Speakers include artists Tracey Emin, Glenn Brown and Antony Gormley, museum directors and curators Nicholas Cullinan, \u00c9milie Hammen, Elizabeth Way and Carl Strehlke, and writers Edward George, Matthew Harle, Christopher Rothko and William Dalrymple.  The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill. Further Information To keep up to date on all the latest news from Frieze, sign up to our newsletter at frieze.com, and follow @friezeofficial on Instagram, Twitter and Frieze Official on Facebook.    ","author_name":"Frieze Masters Podcast","author_url":"https:\/\/www.frieze.com\/frieze-masters-podcast","html":"