Ed Ruscha

A Diary of the Getty's Big, New Exploration of L.A. Architecture

"The San Andreas is not Los Angeles' only fault," cracked architectural historian Thomas Hines at the kickoff to Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.. Hines didn't really mean it -- he was quoting a joke that people from, say, San Francisco might make -- but the quip hit just ... More >>

L.A. Art History Lessons on Twitter, in Emoji Form

A somewhat conservative institution like the Getty Museum isn't alway known for its sense of humor. And Richard Meier's modernist castle on the hill can be intimidating. So it comes as a pleasant surprise to see the Getty jumping on one of the more amusing Internet memes to pop up in the last, oh, 7 ... More >>

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Better than Aliens

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Festival of Soccer Art

This week, homing pigeons interfere with LCD signs on the I-10, one artist takes narcissism to virtuosic heights and another imagines China bringing the United States to its knees. 5. Soccer as endurance art "You can't be surprised by a good-looking girl playing ball once, maybe twice," says a guy ... More >>

LACE It Up, I’ll Take It

Eagle Rock's New Rock and Eagle Shop

Last Saturday, less than a week after she opened The Rock and Eagle Shop on Eagle Rock Boulevard, artist and curator Bettina Hubby heard a man outside the door. "I'm just going to make sure it's not just an adult rock and eagle shop," he said to his children. The exterior is painted a bright, pot-d ... More >>

5 Revelations About L.A. Music History at the Grammy Museum's Show 'Trouble In Paradise'

Becky Sapp​ For some, Los Angeles' musical history fits nicely into categories; there was bouncing beach pop, Laurel Canyon folk, West Coast rap and Sunset Strip rock. But behind this shroud of notable names and iconic acts, there is a richer, more diverse portrait of music in Los Angeles. Th ... More >>

John Sedlar Creates Pacific Standard Time Menu at Playa, With Dishes Inspired by L.A. Art

"You screwed up," chef John Rivera Sedlar told Getty curator Andrew Perchuk in the months before Pacific Standard Time began. The sprawling, Getty-funded celebration of postwar SoCal art should have included food. But Perchuk, already working to facilitate exhibitions at 60-plus institutions and org ... More >>

Berlin Meets Bakersfield

Susan Mogul Spoofs Jason Schwartzman and Anthony Kiedis in her own Pacific Standard Time Campaign

Courtesy of the artistSusan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park​ Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this shared affinity in a promo vid ... More >>

David Tutera's 'My Fair Wedding' Be Damned: Bettina Hubby's 'Get Hubbied' Project Will Transform Your Wedding Into Performance Art

In a way, every wedding is a multimedia theatrical production. Each detail is managed, choreographed, and rehearsed; from rings, to cakes, seating charts, music, vows, catering, decoration, and, of course, wardrobe. Wedding professionals have to pull off flawless manifestations of other people's mo ... More >>

Van Dyke Parks Re-Emerges With A Set Of Singles, Each Covered By Works Of Art

Illustration by Art Spiegelman​Story by Erik Himmelsbach Van Dyke Parks lives on the fringes of the city, up the hill in the northeasternmost nook of Pasadena. He's comfortable there; it's a geographic mirror of his own five-decade career as a culty wingman whose fingerprints are conspicuous ... More >>

Barbara T. Smith: How Divorce Causes Performance Art

"Ed Ruscha: On the Road" at Hammer Museum

Does a legend have to keep things fresh?

'Ed Ruscha: On the Road' at the Hammer Museum: Are Art Legends Obligated to Keep Things Fresh?

© Ed Ruscha, Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian GalleryEd Ruscha's Greatest Passers, now on view at the Hammer Museum​ In our print edition this week, Catherine Wagley's pointed critique of the Hammer's summer exhibit of Ed Ruscha paintings notes that while Ruscha's new works were inspired b ... More >>

Top 5 Accidentally Patriotic Things to Do in L.A. July 4 Weekend

Screenshot taken from Ghostbusters​ Everyone knows that L.A. isn't the 'real' America. It's full of communist liberals who have no faith in the great American nation. However, have no fear -- if you're planning on going to that show at the Echo on July 4 and skipping out on the fireworks, you ... More >>

Walk Like a Venetian

Strategies for 'Incognito' at the Santa Monica Museum: Pick Your Favorite or Find the Ruscha?

Gabriel Cifarelli​ "Incognito," which was held Saturday night in its seventh year as an exhibition and fundraiser for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, offers an enjoyable blind taste test of contemporary art. Well-known artists displayed side-by-side with emerging artists -- equally sized, equ ... More >>

Ed Ruscha, L.A. Pop Art Legend, Forced Out of Venice Studio for City's 'Parking Good'

Gone, 1992​Sorry, Los Angeles: Ed Ruscha has left the building. The saddest part is, we hardly heard him go. Two years after an initial media storm revealed the City of L.A. might be trying to push the pop-art master out of his Venice studio shack for the sake of a parking lot, he exited quie ... More >>

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Selections From Book Soup Owner Glenn Goldman's Estate: Auction on Sunday

The estate of Glenn Goldman, the late owner of Book Soup, will be up for sale this Sunday at Bonhams & Butterfield's in Beverly Hills (7601 W. Sunset Boulevard). This particular auction focuses on Goldman's art books. The pieces up for grabs include a signed coffee table photography book by Annie Li ... More >>

Asphalt Beats Artists in Venice

Rosendahl touts "state of the art" parking lot as Ed Ruscha gets the squeeze

Movie Reviews: Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Postal, War, Inc.

Also, The Cool School, Refusenik and more

SMMOA and LACE Put the Fun in Fund-raisers

Going ... going ... incognito

Ed Ruscha's Political Landscapes

Plus, "Patriot Acts" at 18th Street Arts Center

How We Roll

Derby Dolls: a bout last Saturday; babes in clubland; a dragalicious XXXmas

All in the Family, Isis Rodriguez

8 Angelenos on ArtReview's International Power 100 List

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

LACMA at 40

8 Angelenos on ArtReview’s International Power 100 List

5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005

At the Museums

Selected highlights of the fall and winter season

Premature Exhibitionism

Pictures from a Gone World

Let’s Get Small

Back to the future with Laurie Anderson & Ed Ruscha

The Sound of One Hand Painting

The big book(s) of Ed Ruscha

Progress Report: Gehry in Bloom

Urbanities: Frank O. Gehry Has a Gripe

Love is Blonde

Edited by Kateri Butler

Get Pretty

Dave Hickey’s fantasy art team in Santa Fe

Popped

Academic jostling and anecdotal reminiscence at the Getty

Ten Shows That Rocked My World

Print Ed

Ruscha’s Editions: 1959–1999 at LACMA

Speed

How L.A. changed the way we — and everyone else — shop

Letters

Doug Harvey's (Non-Museum) Top 10

Michael Darling's (Museum and Gallery) Top 10 Plus 10

Hollywood and Ruscha

Ed's new paintings at Gagosian, plus Michael Coughlan and Jory Felice's ''Telephone'' at Works on Paper