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Ed Ruscha: What You See Is What You Get
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 ...
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Artist Ed Ruscha on his career-spanning retrospective
"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.
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Ed Ruscha Has Always Seen America Like No One Else. Peer Through His Eyes in a Sprawling MoMA Exhibition
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 ...
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Is Ed Ruscha secretly painting American history? Or recycling memes?
“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 ...
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Ed Ruscha’s ‘Chocolate Room’ Still Tantalizes
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.Credit...Daniel Dorsa for The ...
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The World According to Ed Ruscha, L.A.’s Elusive Art Legend
By Michael Slenske 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 ...
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MoMA’s Ed Ruscha retrospective demonstrates the artist’s unmatched ability to convert language and environment into images
Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) is an accordion book that consists of two paired, long elevations of the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The photos and street names are pushed ...
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L.A. on Display: Ed Ruscha Gets a Solo Exhibition at LACMA
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 ...
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Ed Ruscha show wowed in New York. Why it’s even better in L.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 ...
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Ed Ruscha’s Artists’ Books: An Innovative Approach
The American artist Ed Ruscha is associated with the rise of the Pop Art and Conceptual Art movements. Ruscha worked in ...
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Ed Ruscha’s Calmly Collapsing America
By the time I left “Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” an XXL retrospective at MOMA comprising some two hundred works produced between the Eisenhower years and the present, I had lost count of the burning ...