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Born in Omaha, Neb. in 1937, Ruscha is commonly characterized as a member of the Pop Art movement, though his work—which includes paintings, prints, and photographic books—defies categorization. Most notably, Ruscha has sought to explore the place of language in visual art in paintings like “Standard Station,” perhaps his most famous, and another in which dark clouds loom behind the words “SAFE AND EFFECTIVE MEDICATION...
...actually rearranged the paintings sometimes took this task very seriously, and often felt that there was a “right way to do things,” according to Frey. Some of them were social psychologists, others musicians, all friends of Frey’s and none visual artists, for he feared the latter would put too many of their own ideas into working with his paintings. The rearrangements of the paintings, almost all of which Frey painted during the summer just for this exhibit, took place during parties he organized. “The reassembling of one landscape...
...show features a cast that imitates the movie gesture for gesture. However, the live version certainly does have freer reign to be creative with the material, and it takes advantage of this freedom. I, personally, did not feel like I was watching something completely new, but the live visual stimulation felt different enough that I didn’t mind not screaming out the lines (Though, more accurately, I may have whispered them). The cast looked their parts and seemed to thrive on the sexy silliness of it all. In fact, this cast presented my favorite line from the play...
Andrew Kreicher’s article about the visual and environmental studies concentration (“Very Easy Stuff,” column, Oct. 28) is offensive, poorly researched, and based upon a culturally illiterate viewpoint. I find philistines more embarrassing than artists...
...writer is a visual and environmental studies concentrator...