As Ruscha demonstrated from the very beginning of his career, one should never accept words or images at face value. Ed Ruscha, “The End” (1991), synthetic polymer paint and graphite on canvas ...

Ed Ruscha loves plants. If you know his art, this fact might come unexpected. He’s not a landscape artist. He’s never wanted to paint a plant. “I’m not sure why,” he says from behind the ...

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, yet ...

Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire, 1965-8, oil on canvas.Courtesy of The Museum of Modern Art, Edward Ruscha; photo by Paul Ruscha. In essence, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN is more than a ...

Ed Ruscha, "Los Angeles County Museum of Art on Fire," 1965-1968, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; gift of Joseph Helman, 1972. Paul Ruscha ...

To many people, Ed Ruscha, the pioneer of West Coast pop art who still works most days at his studio in Culver City, has created art that IS Los Angeles — deadpan, sardonic, yet somehow poignant ...

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, all the students looked ...

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, all the students looked up, ...

The LACMA show 'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is the first comprehensive retrospective in more than 20 years of a quintessential American artist.

The LACMA show 'Ed Ruscha / Now Then' is the first comprehensive retrospective in more than 20 years of a quintessential American artist.

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 ...