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Remains of the day

How can painting, long trapped in hierarchies of objecthood and commodity, hold ruins, dust, absence, and yet insist on the living? Paribartana Mohanty’s latest exhibition, 'I Rescued Speed Altogether ...
Modernity in ruins. The salon of 1767 / Denis Diderot (1767) ; The ruin / Georg Simmel (1911) ; The pleasures of limestone / Adrian Stokes (1934) ; A note on new ruins / Rose Macaulay (1953) ; The ...
How can painting, long trapped in hierarchies of objecthood and commodity, hold ruins, dust, absence, and yet insist on the living? Paribartana Mohanty’s latest exhibition, 'I Rescued Speed Altogether ...