LIVE from the NYPL
Curated by director Paul Holdengraber, LIVE is Cognitive Theater with a mission to provoke, engage, enlighten, instigate, and agitate the mind. LIVE is: provocative conversations, real debates, irresistible performances, original ideas. Wednesday, March 6, 2013, 7pm: Ed Ruscha. Ed Ruscha's work has profoundly influenced countless modern artists, but his artist books - such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour Parking Lots in Los Angeles, and A Few Palm Trees - offer a unique opportunity to trace that influence directly to the near and far corners of the modern art world. For decades, a broad spectrum of artists have produced their own small books revisiting, rebelling against, and responding to the American painter and photographer's idiosyncratic collections.