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Nov. 4, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
As the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what about a picture of a word?
June 5, 2000
In keeping with its practice of enlisting artists as advisors and decision makers, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles has elected Edward Ruscha to its board of trustees.
Jan. 14, 2006
Los Angeles-based artist Edward Ruscha has been named the U.S. representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale.
Oct. 30, 2004
Three months after Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art acquired Edward Ruscha’s “Chocolate Room,” a conceptual installation that covers walls of an entire room with shingle-like sheets of chocolate-coated paper, New York’s Whitney Museum of American Art has received a gift of 456 photographs and prints by the L.A.
March 6, 2004
For a man who claims not to be a photographer, painter Edward Ruscha has taken enough snapshots for a bountiful retrospective.
March 30, 2003
Don’t expect the usual summer entertainment choices from Edward Ruscha, the Venice-based artist who proved that carrot and blackberry juice were to paint with as well as to drink.
May 29, 1994
A donor’s gift buys 156 works, bringing the museum close to its goal of owning a complete set by the L.A. artist.
Jan. 13, 2006
The trust, known for antiquities, asks L.A. artists to create installations for the new center.
Sept. 12, 1997
From Ruscha with love: A Manhattan gallery is featuring the photography books of artist Edward Ruscha, including several collections that are devoid of people--”Thirty-Four Parking Lots in Los Angeles” (1967), “Twenty-Six Gasoline Stations” (1962), and, of course, “Some Los Angeles Apartments” (1965).
July 6, 1996