Marlene Dumas was newly crowned the most expensive living female artist in the world when her 1997 painting Miss January, featuring a woman with a ghostly white face who's naked from the waist down, ...

These pieces of legislation have been applied to other cases, notably when Kent Twitchell’s downtown LA mural of Ed Ruscha was painted ... alongside the Shell Gas Station it adorned on 4th ...

Born in LA, artist Alison Saar understands the importance of gas stations, not only for car culture. Famously documented by Ed Ruscha and Edward Hopper, the traditional petro-macho convention is ...

(Adam Bartos/Courtesy cityLAB) Some Los Angeles Apartments by Ed Ruscha is among the lauded ... with quotidian things like parking lots, gas stations, and throwing typewriters out of moving ...

“Artists have always looked at cities as models, but for an artist to look at the gas stations of Route 66 or the commercial ... t maybe if it was on a computer screen,” he says. “Ed Ruscha: Books and ...

Ruscha would use the gas station motif again and again. Here, he adds a magazine onto the top right corner of the painting, disrupting any sense you might have gotten of illusionistic space. It’s ...

During the same Christie's auction on Tuesday, a celebrated 1964 painting of a gas station by 86-year-old Ed Ruscha, titled "Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half," sold for $68.26 ...

Christie's is hoping that with the Magritte and a celebrated 1964 painting of a gas station by the 86-year-old American pop artist Ed Ruscha, it can reinvigorate an art market that has slowed ...

The gas station painting is reportedly being consigned ... Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half (1964) by Ed Ruscha Courtesy Christie's Another possible record-breaker at Christie ...

Ed Ruscha‘s Standard Station ... spotlighting trivial subject matter, such as gas stations. In Standard Station, Ruscha presents the roadside facility abstracted to appear like an architectural ...