For a seminal work of art, Twentysix Gasoline Stations doesn't look like much. It's a small, thin paperback book resembling an old industrial manual — just 26 black-and-white photos of gas stations ...
Artist Kent Twitchell announced Thursday night that he’s painting a new version his famed 1987 mural “Ed Ruscha Monument,” the 70-foot-tall portrait that was accidentally whitewashed in 2006. Based on ...
ED RUSCHA (B. 1937) Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half signed, titled and dated '"STANDARD STATION, 10¢ WESTERN BEING TORN IN HALF" 1964 Edward J. Ruscha' (on the stretcher) oil on ...
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 paintings, ...
Ed Ruscha’s Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, is heading to auction next month with an estimate of US$50 million, Christie’s announced on Monday. The seller is Texas ...
Now on show at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Ed Ruscha: Road Tested is a collection of photographs, paintings and prints inspired by the artist’s love of driving across America. I talked 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 ...
“I was a little bit tired of making conventional pictures”: The artist on recreating his bittersweet installation, first seen in 1970, for the Museum of Modern Art. Ed Ruscha examining color samples ...
Ruscha told me during an interview for a story on his 2013 show at the Getty that in making the work he’d been intrigued by the horizontal nature of L.A.’s streetscape, with its boulevards that unfurl ...
A famed Ed Ruscha painting from the early 1960s will headline Christie’s post-war and contemporary art evening sale next month, the auction house announced today. The work, a cornflower blue canvas ...