Which way up?

How does this look?

Does the name Mark Rothko mean anything to you?

He was one of the 20th century's leading abstract artists, best known for his huge canvases of blocks of colour, arranged in wide vertical or horizontal stripes.

But when you come to hang the pictures, how do you know whether the stripes should go up and down, or from side to side?

How about this way?

It's a question of some urgency for the Tate Modern gallery in London, which is currently showing a major exhibition of Rothko's work, and where it's been suggested that some of the pictures may be wrongly hung.

Newshour's Robin Lustig asked the art critic and curator William Feaver: is there really no way to be sure which way is the right way?

Listen Listen to William Feaver (2 mins 33 secs)

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First broadcast 10 November 2008