"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.

ED RUSCHA came to Los Angeles to attend art school in the 1950s and soon became one of the most important artists in the world. That’s how London’s Tate Modern described him when it sent a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A bold accusation, I realize, but nobody makes that many paintings, drawings, and photographs of fire without some buried lust for the real deal. By the time I left “Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” an ...

for the Museum of Modern Art. Ed Ruscha examining color samples at his studio in Culver City, Calif. His “Chocolate Room” installation will be part of a career survey at Museum of Modern Art ...