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Bare edges

Pace gallery in London are currently showing an exhibition of late paintings from Mark Rothko interspersed with large black and white photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto. It was all very sombre and yet unexpectedly I was thrilled by one small detail in particular - the careful, inch-wide edge of blank canvas left unpainted around the Rothko's.  I left, thinking they are his best work.