Review Rundown for Ed Ruscha: Books & Co. / Various Small Books

Press for Books and Co.

Review | Pastelegram The Library of Unborrowed Books and Ed Ruscha Books & Co. Art in General; Gagosian Gallery By Kara Carmack

Rather than quarantined in vitrines—though some are—the books on the walls offer their smells and textures to the viewer. The glossy, flimsy and colorful pages of Harlan Erskine’s Ten Convenient Stores (2005), for example, mimic those of magazines found within his convenient stores. Erskine’s book, clearly riffing on Ruscha’s Twentysix Gasoline Stations, documents the stores’ exteriors, highlighting their neon signs, florescent interior lights and colorful advertisements plastered on the windows. The book’s thin glossy pages, however, tactilely move us through the stores’ front doors into the shelves of cheap commercial goods we know are there but cannot see.

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The New York Times: Ed Ruscha’s Books and Landscapes at Gagosian

Artcards Review: Ruscha Bookworks Roar @ New York Public Library : “Ed Ruscha Books & Co.” @ Gagosian Gallery

E1F mediaproject Ed Ruscha. Books and Paintings – Museum Brandhorst – Munich

archphoto: Ed Ruscha. Books & Paintings / Books & co

Artlog: SEE In Love with Books

StrayCats: Ed Ruscha – Books & Co // München

Artist Portfolio Magazine: Ed Ruscha Books & Co at Gagosian Gallery

Press For Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha

Parka Blogs: Book Review: VARIOUS SMALL BOOKS: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha

The Boston Globe: Books: Quick look at “Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha”

Publishers weekly: Nonfiction Book Review: Various Small Books: Referencing Various Small Books

The New York Times: ‘Various Small Books,’ Inspired by Ed Ruscha, and More

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Ed Ruscha talk at the New York Public Library

Just after the opening of Ed Ruscha, Books & Co., the New York Public Library held a conversation between Ed Ruscha and Paul Holdengräber. Above is a condensed youtube video – if you want to see the full event here is the full (1 hr. 42 min.) recording, Live from the NYPL.

Ed Ruscha, Books & Co. show (which included my ten convenient stores) recently closed at the at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich. I hope you were able to see it if you were around.

Books & Co – New York to Munich.

Ed Ruscha Books & Co. Gagosian Gallery was a fantastic success. I'm very happy to be part of it. The opening on Tuesday, March 5th was widely attended. It was great to meet so many different artists who were influenced by Ruscha. I have to thank Gagosian gallery for putting on the show and for the reception after the opening. Thanks to Jeff Brouws, Wendy Burton, and Hermann Zschiegner for making Various Small Books and Books & Co. possible. Much respect to the artist Ed Ruscha. His publication, Twentysix Gasoline Stations, provided a language of minimalist sequence and seriality which has influenced the work of many contemporary artists, as well as my book,  ten convenient stores.

Here are a few images from the opening from Paul Soulellis post: Books on wires | Soulellis

BOOKS & CO. ran from March 5 - April 27, 2013 at Gagosian Gallery Madison Avenue and traveled to Munich, Germany at the Museum Brandhorst running from June 6-September 22, 2013.

(from left) Jeff Brouws, Ed Ruscha, Hermann Zschiegner