Following the lead of John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger, artist Ed Ruscha has resigned from the board of trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This means that there are currently no artists sitting on the museum’s board. Read More
The residents of Miami are lucky enough to have an Ed Ruscha show on their hands right now, at the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami. It’s called “On the Road,” and features paintings lined with passages from the Jack Kerouac novel of the same name, like “Brakemen eat surly meals in diners by the tracks.” Read More
With their “Pacific Standard Time” initiative nearing its end, the Getty Foundation and the Getty Research Institute are spearheading a similar, though more modest, exhibition series to open in April, 2013, focused on architecture and urban planning in Southern California.
The Getty Center in Los Angeles will present a survey exhibition, “Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940-1990,” while seven institutions, including the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Hammer Museum, will present simultaneous shows related to the urban landscape of L.A. and the surrounding cities following World War II. Read More
Well, this is adorable. The comment system on the Museum of Modern Art’s Inside/Out blog now has a CAPTCHA box powered by Ed Ruscha artworks. A CAPTCHA box? It’s that little box of letters and numbers—usually randomly generated—that you need to copy when leaving a comment on a website or signing up for a Read More
Ed Ruscha is among the photographers whom The Guardian included in a series in which renowned photographers point to the ‘worst shot’ of their career. Of all the photographs included, we found Pop artist Ed Ruscha’s rejected photo from his iconic series Twentysix Gasoline Stations, and his reasons for rejecting it, particularly charming. Read More
The Art Newspaper reports that nonprofit organization Word Above the Street has signed up a bevy of artists for a 12-week project to transform 300 of New York’s water towers into public artworks. Ed Ruscha, Lawrence Weiner, Marilyn Minter, E.V. Day, Tony Conrad, Andy Goldsworthy and Tony Oursler, as well as rapper Jay-Z are just some of the artists on board with the aptly named Water Tank Project, an effort to increase public awareness of the need to conserve water. Read More
Here’s a tidbit we missed from the latest Gagosian press release: Ann Temkin, the Museum of Modern Art’s chief curator of painting and sculpture, will pen a catalogue essay for Gagosian’s 11-gallery Damien Hirst spot painting show. Read More
The Getty Museum and Getty Research Institute have acquired a trove of Ed Ruscha photographs from Gagosian for an undisclosed sum. The collection includes 74 prints and two contact sheets. Read More
