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Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography ... Ruscha’s background as a graphic designer is evident in his subtle use of typography. He is perhaps best known for his artist ...
New York — Ed Ruscha, born in Omaha ... “Annie” painting faithfully reproduces the comic strip’s curvy red typography on a big canvas divided into flatly painted rectangular fields ...
Ed Ruscha, the octogenarian Pop conceptualist ... streetscapes, signage, typography, building façades—that Ruscha has mined in a variety of media and materials during his seven decades as ...
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 ...
"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 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, intrepid explorer of language and image, prefigured a digital culture of words on the move. A retrospective at MoMA shines new light on his groundbreaking career: the books, the ...
“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 ...
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 ...
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 ...