How to use paginate with a date filter?
{% paginate craft.entries.section('exhibitions').endingDate('&lt; ' ~ now).limit(8) as pastExhibitions %}
  ...
{% endpaginate %}


This will paginate the entries in section exhibiitions with endingDate &lt; now. That ~ is string concatination operator. The string '&lt; 2014-08-04' queries for entries with endingDate in the past.