Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Leah Levy disc carts

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a golf ball—they project the clarity

a young woman is absorbed in a solitary moment

and “Guernica: An Odyssey in Time and Space” by Jeremy Adelman

and titled after classic ’90s tracks by women-fronted R&B groups—702

Ed Ruscha: That Was Then This Is Now II Leah Levy disc cartsPublished by Vermillion Editions Limited, this hand pulled 13 color lithograph by Ed Ruscha sets the wording of its title against an ominous cloudy sky. Ruscha has used the immediately recognizable Boy Scout Utility Modern, an unembellished typeface of his own design, to render the prints gnomic yet familiar idiom. The highly atmospheric backdrop shadows the motto with a cinematic tension that causes it to oscillate between optimistic and pessimistic