EVE OF DESTRUCTION
by Charlie Finch



The news that children are being injured falling into Doris Salcedo's expanding crevice at the Tate or that Urs Fischer has jackhammered the concrete floor at Gavin Brown Gallery reminds us of Rudolf Clausius' theorem that the universe is geared towards maximum entropy, the second law of thermodynamics taken to the edge. How cooperative of artists to nudge it along!

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