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'King Of LA Cool' Ed Ruscha Gets His Space At LACMA
The L.A. Observer finally gets the Los Angeles retrospective he deserves.
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Artist Ed Ruscha on His New LACMA Retrospective 'Now Then'
Artist Ed Ruscha talks about his LACMA retrospective 'Now Then.'
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This, This, This, and This | Online Only | n+1 | Thomas de Monchaux and Mark Krotov
The tagline of the magazine in question, Popular Western, was “Complete Quick-Trigger Stories,” which could apply to Ruscha’s photographs but not to his paintings. Even his silliest paintings are stately and brooding, often to a fault. The character of the brooding evolved over time. If the later paintings are—often but not always to their detriment—more explicit about our world on fire, the ’60s work prioritizes pleasure: the laid-back loops of the gas pump hoses, the blocky, confident reds, the crisp fluorescents, and the light and shadow on the glass façade provide little indic...
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Vancouver artists donate works to fundraiser for social housing in hardscrabble neighbourhood
Stan Douglas, Ken Lum, Douglas Coupland and others are helping efforts to raise C$8m for housing for Vancouver’s homeless
Source: theartnewspaper.com