Ed Ruscha’s Rare Early Films Visit New York by Andrew Russeth
The artist Ed Ruscha has long flirted with the movie business in his paintings, evoking the title cards of early films in his word constructions, for instance, and returning again and again to satirize Hollywood’s famous sign. And his recent starring role in a Doug Aiken film is far from his only experience with celluloid itself. In the 1970s, Ruscha also made a series of largely unknown short movies, which will be presented at Anthology Film Archives this Friday as part of the Migrating Forms film festival… (read more)