For Triple Canopy's thirteenth issue, Bad Actors, artist David Levine wrote “Matter of Rothko,” an essay about coming to terms, later in life, with his father’s role in the scandal over Mark Rothko's estate—and with his failings as a father. Levine tells Triple Canopy's Anna Altman what he found out about Rothko, his dad, and himself while writing the essay, and what happened after publication: the discovery of new evidence, a brush with the law, the ghosts looking over his shoulder.