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Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Robert Rauschenberg and other post-war painters found creative freedom in LA

Sometimes lines are drawn that mark us off distinctly from everything else. This delimitation is deceptive. What once appeared solid and impenetrable

Artist Ed Ruscha talks about his LACMA retrospective 'Now Then.'

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Sacramento painter Wayne Thiebaud talks about pie, and why he still sees himself as “just an old art teacher.”

A major, career-spanning retrospective brings together more than 200 works, including the infamous Chocolate Room

In a series of groundbreaking exhibitions Hopps brought a new generation of American artists into the museum, writes Jonathan Griffin

Walking into The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps, now on view at the Menil Collection, we are greeted (and that really is the word) by a larger-than-life assemblage portraying Walter Hopps (1932–2005).

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As we enter a new Roaring Twenties, let’s recall two renegade art dealers who kickstarted modern art back in the Swinging Sixties: Walter Hopps and Irving Blum of Ferus, the L.A. gallery that launched Pop Art and the young (guess who?) Andy Warhol in 1962.

The Menil Collection has received so much attention that its opening this month may seem anticlimactic. The only unknown is what the director plans to do with it all.