"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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

The buildings, billboards, and logos of Ed Ruscha’s 20th-century paintings ... same notes a few too many times for so inventive an artist,” wrote Linda Yablonsky for the Art Newspaper ...

“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 ...

By the time I left “Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” an XXL retrospective ... as la-di-da as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The title of Ruscha’s 1964 photo series, “Various Small Fires ...

Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station ... large-scale pieces from the 1960s to remain in private hands. MORE: Signs of Art Market Strength Emerge in London Sales “Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western ...