A rich perfume wafts through the sixth floor of the Museum of Modern Art, where the installation of Ed Ruscha’s full-dress survey “Now Then” is underway.
You sense it before you see it: a room where the white walls are turning velvety brown.
A chocolate room.
“Chocolate Room” is an oddity in Ruscha’s influential oeuvre.
Of the 85-year-old Nebraska native’s hundreds of projects — paintings, prints, and photo books; dry eulogies of Americana like SPAM cans and Mobil stations and two-lane blacktop — “Chocolate Room” is his only installation.
Persons:
Ed Ruscha’s, McPherson, Daniel, whisks, Robyn, Lynda, Kayla, It’s
Organizations:
Museum of Modern Art, La Paloma Fine Arts company, Mobil
Locations:
Nebraska, New York