I use that as a stepping-off point.” Ed Ruscha, next to a 1933 Ford truck, was photographed March 22 near the citrus grove at his studio in Culver City. Photographed by Ryan Schude The Academy ...

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 ...

Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA ... work emerged from Pop Art (After graduating Chouinard, Ruscha had a studio above the Ferus gallery where he saw the first LA exhibition of Warhol ...

2023 Ed Ruscha. Photo Susan Haller, Ed Ruscha Studio Ruscha’s books inspired a sizable army of imitators, as documented in the meta-book Various Small Books. His books alone would be cause for ...

ED RUSCHA collects antique bricks. In a corner of the 85-year-old artist’s airy, sprawling Los Angeles studio, Ruscha has arrayed his floor with red-clay blocks stamped with words and phrases ...

“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” the sprawling and much ... the 20th Century Fox movie studio); and the Hollywood sign up in the hills, tagging the city below. Ruscha’s Hollywood signs are emblematic ...

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 ...

On other occasions, he bolo-ed with more casual fare, or lost the tie entirely (while still looking pretty snazzy). Ruscha in his studio, 1981. Perhaps the bolo is Ruscha’s nod to his youth ...

By the time I left “Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” an XXL retrospective ... those words superimposed on a grassy view near Ruscha’s studio, you can detect the same sphinxlike intelligence that ...

Photo Susan Haller, Ed Ruscha Studio Twentysix Gasoline Stations (1963), Ruscha’s now historic, pocket-size volume of roadside snapshots, has a random sequence but another, the accordion-folded ...

Ed Ruscha loves plants ... “I’m not sure why,” he says from behind the large desk in his Culver City studio. And yet he’s been gardening for some 50 years. We’re looking together ...