Friday, August 02, 2013

Temporary Angst ...

That such works as Monet’s famous Waterloo Bridge, London (1901) and Picasso’s Harlequin Head (1971) could never again be seen left many grief-stricken. If proved, the destruction would constitute, one curator insisted, “a crime against humanity”. But is loss always to be lamented? Or can the ephemerality of an object itself be cherished?

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