Ed Ruscha Blank Signs 2004
This is up right now at the Hammer as part of the super-incredible Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988-2010 exhibition…if you are in LA, this is a DO NOT MISS!
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But wait: Has SFMOMA really not collected a single California-based artist — heck, Western-based American artist — in depth in the last 35 years? Apparently not. What an astonishing failure. What about Agnes Martin, Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman, Catherine Opie, Ken Price, Richard Misrach, John Baldessari, Robert Irwin, Chris Burden or Andrea Zittel?
Oh MoMA, being cheeky when you go to the wrong screen.
Now you know that Ed Ruscha is useful in other situations than just making you look cool at work because he’s on your wall. Practical applications of art.
“Ed (Ruscha) has said California hasn’t influenced him one little bit, but I disagree. I like to think the California sun has burnt out all unnecessary elements in his work.”
— David Lynch
Ed Ruscha I Think I’ll… 1983
This is up in the White House right now. Digging the Obama’s decorator’s taste.
» Sometimes I get a little sad when I hear stories of "lost art"...
But this is actually an amusing little tale about an Ed Ruscha that now “only exists in photographs”.
» Ed Ruscha stars in Doug Aitken Film
London. US artist Ed Ruscha will take a starring role in a new film by the Los Angeles-based video artist Doug Aitken, which will be shown on an island in the middle of Rome. The Tiberina Island, a 335-metre long stretch of land located in the southern bend of the Tiber, will host the installation entitled Frontier (opening on 23 October).
Aitken told The Art Newspaper: “At the core of the work is a cinematic installation: a narrative film expanded to show on multiple screens in a site-specific structure. The film revolves around a protagonist, played by Ruscha as a solitary individual who moves through a city, from day into night, while the surrounding world undergoes a revolutionary change. In the work, he is carried through a series of seemingly everyday situations in a minimal landscape. These situations progress from insignificant moments to a series of more poignant encounters involving increasing numbers of people that eventually takes him to a gathering protest.”
You know who else is going to be in this film?
Hint: It’s me.
