One top entertainment-industry art collector, when asked which heavies have his work on their walls, deadpanned: “Who doesn’t own a Ruscha?” Ruscha’s painting Hollywood, 1968 Ed Ruscha ...

"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.

The American artist Ed Ruscha is associated with the rise of the Pop Art and Conceptual Art movements. Ruscha worked in ...

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 ...

and “Ed Ruscha / Now Then” opens with several of the radical word-paintings he began to make around 1960. When Ruscha arrived in L.A. he enrolled at Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts ...

“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” the sprawling and much-anticipated retrospective of the great American Pop and Conceptual artist, opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I am happy to ...

There’s a curious wryness in the work of West Coast art patriarch Ed Ruscha, one that belies the superficial gloss of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. The painter and printmaker has lived and ...

“Our Flag” by Ed Ruscha is now on show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. (Josh White/Gagosian/Jimmy Iovine/Liberty Ross) Review by Philip Kennicott NEW YORK — In 2017, after the ...

“Ed Ruscha / Now Then” opens to the public on Sunday at the Museum of Modern Art, and it is so finely calibrated, so well-balanced — so cool, in stylistic and emotional and HVAC senses ...

Andy Warhol said that Pop art was about “liking things”. Ed Ruscha, the octogenarian Pop conceptualist from Los Angeles, is more specific. He likes “the idea of a word becoming a picture”.

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 ...