i worked very closely with scott rothko.e worked very closely for five years. >> is not easy to put your stuff out because of size and weight and delicacy. an unique technology and a bunch of other things. >> the whitney was fantastic to work with. they never said no. i would like to show this work, they never said we can't do that. there is a problem with the budget or having that expense. >> how many months before they were installed? >> some of them days. >> it is not just a retrospective. an up-to-date retrospective. >> we just finished that. >> we probably finished that inside the museum. it is kind of natural. you work on things and you try to put as much energy into that as we can. >> you don't want people to be intimidated by art. >> i remember my first day of college and i had no idea what art could be. as soon as i arrived, we signed papers and were enrolled. we got on the bus and went to the baltimore museum. and when we got there, i went inside the museum and i looked at paintings and they did not know any of the