"If I paint a mountaintop, it's not really a mountaintop; it's an idea of a mountaintop," said artist Ed Ruscha. Some artists are so weird and wonderful, you just can't stop thinking about them. Maybe ...

The buildings, billboards, and logos of Ed Ruscha’s 20th-century paintings don’t look like those that populate the world today. His were the product of a sparser, still-developing American West, ...

Ed Ruscha, running late to class one day in 1950, accidentally stiff-armed a glass-panel door at his junior high in Oklahoma City. “My hand went right through that door, all the students looked up, ...

The corporate theater is perhaps the most prolific performing art venue in America. Even the acclaimed Californian artists Ed Ruscha and Billy Al Bengston have graced its venue. In 1968, the duo ...

Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN (first mounted at New York’s Museum of Modern Art) makes a strong case for the power of Ruscha’s hard-edged, minimalist, yet graphically ...

Spanning 65 years of Ed Ruscha's remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, the exhibition will feature over 250 works, produced from 1958 to the present, in various ...

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Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...

In 1961, while biding his time in the giant Governor Clinton Hotel in New York awaiting departure on a trip to Europe with his mother and younger brother Paul, 23-year-old Ed Ruscha made a sketch on ...

For over six decades, Ruscha (pronounced “rew-SHAY”) has been making art that delights in the ambiguity and cultural anthropology of everyday language. Dada artists before him may have pasted letters ...

Artist Ed Ruscha has resigned from the board of Los Angeles's Museum Of Contemporary Art — the last of four artists on the board to leave after chief curator Paul Schimmel was removed. The L.A. Times ...