This was the weekend of Ed Ruscha. His scaffold team hooked up just in front of our window and over three days pretty much finished this - 'Honey I twisted through more traffic damm today'. Romance, open-road nostalgia and metropolis living summed up on fade-out sunset pink.
Then on to the Frick for a room of miniature homoerotic bronzes and Ruscha on the 17th Century - with sage-grey marine skies, a tiny flag ship below and the words - war! taxes! alchemy! damsels! firewood! melancholia! plague! History painting just got seriously witty, well in 1988 it did - thanks Ed!
