Ed Ruscha is featured in the Wall Street Journal’s recurring “My Favorite Things” feature, showcasing some of his most treasured artworks and possessions, among them a map of land owned by Gordon Matta-Clark in New York City, the head of a toy baseball player he was given by KAWS, and even a piece of cast-off plumbing pipe.  “I like the feel of corroded copper,” Ruscha says. (more…)

With the opening of Richard Artschwager! (previously at the Whitney Museum) at the Hammer Museum this month, the institution welcomed Richard Artschwager’s contemporaries, John Baldessari and Ed Ruscha to sit down and discuss his influential practice, output, and creative legacy. “Whether he’s well known or not is not important because he’s seen widely, and if you’re interested in art you’re going to be familiar with his work.” Ruscha said. (more…)

Artist Ed Ruscha is profiled in the most recent issue of the New Yorker, discussing his life in Los Angeles, his practice, and the inspiration for some of his most iconic works, including his famous painting Oof.  “It had one foot in the world of cartooning,” he says. “You get punched in the stomach, and that’s ‘Oof.’ It was so obvious, and so much a part of my growing up in the U.S.A. I felt like it was almost a patriotic word.” (more…)