Tag: Ed Ruscha

  • LA roundup 2023

    To know the art scene in Los Angeles calls on a lifetime of cruising its streets, storefronts, museums, galleries and riverbanks. All are stages for creative expression, every neighbourhood is fair game for pop-up display, and now that LA artists…

  • Lucy McKenzie: Prime Suspect

    A mid-career survey of the Brussels-based Scottish artist conceals big questions in illusionistic marvels

  • Music From The Balconies – Ed Ruscha and Los Angeles

    Moving to Los Angeles at 19, having grown up in Oklahoma City, Ed Ruscha was always an outsider. His detached perspective is a quality that has remained in his work – which would become so concerned with the city –…

  • The American Dream: Pop to the Present

    This exhibition pops and sparks, but ultimately goes out with a disappointing fizzle, leaving us to wonder what happened to the American dream

  • Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950

    The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC 24 October 2013 – 26 May 2014

  • Los Angeles takes Manhattan

    Drumroll please for space-and-light artists Robert Irwin and James Turrell, sculptor-ceramicist Ken Price, conceptual artist John Baldessari, music, installation and graphic artist Llyn Foulkes and bad-boy sculptor and video artist Paul McCarthy. (If you include Ed Ruscha, who is extensively…

  • Ed Ruscha: Fifty Years of Painting

    Ed Ruscha’s oeuvre has been canonised as the output of a modern American master, but it shrugs off the labels that usually accompany such elevation: certain works or sequences are aligned with pop or conceptual art, but the majority resist…

  • A gift horse in the mouth: the Artists Rooms project and the d’Offay bequest 2008

    On 27 February 2008 a major announcement was made at Edinburgh’s National Gallery of Modern Art. Before the assembled British art luminaries, news was announced of possibly the greatest art bequest of the twentieth century and to date. Anthony d’Offay…

  • Ed Ruscha: The Mountains

    Inverleith House, Edinburgh, through 14 October 2001.