A Piet Mondrian Painting Has Been Hanging Upside Down for Over 75 Years

While art is open to a seemingly infinite set of interpretations, the actual positioning of any given work is less a topic of serious discourse. But one art historian has determined that Piet Mondrian's New York City I (1941), which has exhibited at various institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, has been hung upside down over the past 75 years.The composition features a geometric grid of overlapping yellow, red and blue lines atop a raw canvas backdrop, where near t...