Christie's has announced the sale of Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half. It will headline the 20th Century Evening Sale in the Autumn Marquee Week this November. Estimated to exceed $50 million, this 1964 painting remains in private...
As a focal point for the oil industry in the US, Oklahoma is associated with roads (Route 66), cars and gasoline. All these feature significantly in the oeuvre of Ed Ruscha, who, although he is primarily associated with the cityscape of Los Angeles, grew up in...
Though we have plenty of experience of and access to American art here in Britain, this means chiefly American art from the 20th century. 19th-century American art, where British collections are concerned, tends to mean examples of the work of John Singer Sargent and...
Extremes and In-betweens is the latest exhibition by the American painter Ed Ruscha which opened last night to a crowd that included Tracey Emin, Anish Kapoor,Michael Craig-Martin, Ron Arad, Alan Jones and Monica Lewinsky. The paintings were completed in 2016. Ruscha...
The American Pop Artist artist Ed Ruscha has donated to the national collection one impression of all future prints he creates in his lifetime. Ruscha (b.1937) is widely regarded as one of the world’s most important living artists with a career...
CalArts has completed the first phase of its Art Benefit and Auction 2014, a fundraising effort in which more than 80 renowned faculty members and alumni have donated works to benefit the Institute. Proceeds from all art sales will help fund the John Baldessari Studio...
Update: Alma Allen: The State Department confirmed Alma Allen as US Pavilion Artist for 2026 Venice Biennale, opening next May — though no one is quite ready to say so out loud. The Utah-born, Mexico-based artist has been commissioned, along with Jeffrey Uslip, to...
A New York judge has dismissed Ronald Perelman’s attempt to claim $400 million from insurers for paintings he said had been damaged in a 2018 fire at his East Hampton estate. The billionaire financier and collector argued that five works—two Warhols, two Ruschas, and...
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has appointed Christophe Cherix as its next David Rockefeller Director, marking a pivotal transition for the institution as it approaches its centennial. Cherix, a distinguished curator and scholar, will step into the role in September...