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Ed Ruscha at Gagosian Is The Daily Pic By Blake Gopnik

The Art of Erasure

The Daily Pic: Ed Ruscha makes threats disappear.

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© Ed Ruscha, courtesy Gagosian Gallery, photography by Robert McKeever
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Ed Ruscha’s “Stick Up Don’t Move Smile” (2001) and “Say Yes to Our Demands or Else” (1999), two small, older pictures from the big Ruscha

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