A violent stabbing, a million-dollar con job and a government cover-up are just three of the Hollywood-scale scandals surrounding one of the world's most controversial paintings, "Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III." The massive abstract work by Barnett Newman was slashed to ribbons by a visitor to Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum in 1986. With a highly inventive multi-disciplinary approach, filmmaker Barbara Visser revisits not only the shocking front-page crime but the equally sensational calamities that followed, namely a botched restoration and a contentious fraud trial. Using audio of her phone calls with the attacker and archival footage of Newman discussing his abstract style, as well as commissioning a new artist to reproduce the questionably valued original, Visser deftly probes the role of abstract art. Who decides the value of an idea? Who does that concept belong to? And when, if ever, do those two notions stop existing? Myrocia Watamaniuk