Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA ... he finds ways to inject energy and drama into images, such as his Actual Size from 1962, which renders the word SPAM logo-like and beneath it ...

ED RUSCHA/NOW THEN, a new exhibit at the LACMA ... That same year, LACMA was the first museum to purchase a Ruscha, when they bought Actual Size — an iconic painting featuring what looks like ...

Ed Ruscha, “Actual Size” (1962), oil on canvas, 67 1/16 × 72 1/16 inches (~170 x 183 cm) Ed Ruscha, “Noise, Pencil, Broken Pencil, Cheap Western” (1963), oil and wax on canvas ...

The legendary artist Ed Ruscha still has the aura of the coolest ... LACMA was the first museum to purchase a Ruscha, when they bought Actual Size — an iconic painting featuring what looks ...

By Michael Slenske Ed Ruscha ... While he waits, Ruscha (who uses a flip phone, not a smartphone) is happy to make another pivot in the studio with a new series of “bite-size” paintings ...

Photo Susan Haller, Ed Ruscha Studio Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Ruscha’s now historic, pocket-size volume of roadside ... (1966), is more faithful to actual topography.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. OOF. HONK. SMASH. MoMA’s giant Ed Ruscha retrospective (the first in New York in many decades) announces ...

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 ...

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 ...