Title: Beautiful Terrible Ruins
Description: "Apel shows how Detroit has become pivotal to an expanding network of ruin imagery that speaks to the overarching anxieties of our era: increasing poverty, declining wages and social services, inadequate health care, unemployment, homelessness, and ecological disaster - in short, the failure of capitalism."
Subjects: Ruins in art, Regression (civilization), Arts and society, Detroit (mich.), history, In art, Regression (Civilization) in art, History