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The man often comes through in the notebooks, ideas for books to write, things to tell to other musicians like Davis and Mingus, a reminder of the right size suspenders to wear, admonishments on how he’s treating himself. His thinking about himself in the notebooks is self-critical, but there’s no direct line from this to the ideas that come out through his horn. But that’s the elusiveness of the great artists, they are great because they think of things others can’t, and it’s so inherent to their beings; there’s no way to explain it.

Let Gaza live! So we all shout Let Gaza live! The LAPD has shown up: about twenty cars at once. There will be forty of them by the time we are under arrest. The crowd has stopped attacking us. There is a kind of relaxing, like the motorcycles expelled from the highway had represented a gastric build-up, a burp. It’s settled. Let Gaza live! we shout.

Craig Starr has often exhibited Ed Ruscha’s work, with a number of highlights including a 2005 survey of Ruscha’s “Standard Stations,” a 2007 review of Ruscha’s “Gunpowder Ribbon Drawings,” a 2018 trek through the artist’s monosyllabic word paintings, and a 2021 showcase of Ruscha’s “liquid words” from the late 1960s. The gallery’s current Ed Ruscha: Works on Paper comprises a modest sampling of pieces from these past exhibitions alongside a handful of additions.

I’m writing the introduction to this month’s Critics Page as the year 2023 is coming to an end, a year in which I’ve spent much time with the idea of queer heartbr(ache). It began when my friend and cosmic mirror (our birthdays are exactly six months apart) Le’Andra LeSeur and I had our first significant heart to heart about recent breakups that had left us tender.

Erin Pérez writes poems and is the co-creator and co-editor of Leak Magazine alongside Tyhe Cooper.