"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. Maybe ...

Ed Ruscha’s Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966) is an accordion book that consists of two paired, long elevations of the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. The photos and street names are pushed to ...

For over six decades, Ruscha (pronounced “rew-SHAY”) has been making art that delights in the ambiguity and cultural anthropology of everyday language. Dada artists before him may have pasted letters ...

Artist Ed Ruscha has resigned from the board of Los Angeles's Museum Of Contemporary Art — the last of four artists on the board to leave after chief curator Paul Schimmel was removed. The L.A. Times ...

The 86-year-old king of cool is getting the star treatment at LACMA with his first major retrospective in 20 years. By Michael Slenske Ed Ruscha, running late to class one day in 1950, accidentally ...

His experimental photo-sculptures and inventive portraits of artists like Judy Chicago and Ed Ruscha pushed the boundaries of ...

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 West, ...

Working in painting, drawing, prints, photography, artist’s books, film, and installation—and currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York—Ruscha’s diverse ...

“Ed Ruscha / Now Then,” the sprawling and much-anticipated retrospective of the great American Pop and Conceptual artist, opens Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. I am happy to report ...

Ed Ruscha is an American artist whose oeuvre melds Pop Art iconography with the documentarian rigor of Conceptual Art. With a practice that spans drawing, painting, photography, film, printmaking, and ...

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, ...