Btw tho ofc I consider my serial/obsessive photos of LA River & oil infrastructure *the* definitive representation, Ed Ruscha also did some cool stuff 😂

Getty Museum has a new site up, "what it means to interpret an archive mostly accessible thru digital technologies": https://www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/

#LosAngeles #EdRuscha #Getty #urbanism #art #photography

The Getty Institute just launched a new online publication “Ed Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City", which includes several map visualizations we created to explore the vast digitized collection of Ruscha’s photographs of LA over the years.

The entire publication is online, including videos, visualizations, zoomable images, and more: https://www.getty.edu/publications/ruscha/

#LosAngeles #EdRuscha #art #cartography #maps #GettyMuseum #GettyInstitute #LA #OpenAccess

Tight Heads

Actress model Candy Clark's collection of polaroid photos from the 70s and 80s had been hidden away in a drawer for years - but now they have been published, along with Clark's honest and amusing recollections of the 'before they were famous' stars in a photography book edited by Sam Sweet

1) Steven Spielberg
2) Harrison Ford and Spielberg
3) Terri Garr
4) Anjelica Huston and friend

#tightheads #candyclark #polaroids #edruscha #stevenspielberg #harrisonford #terrigarr #anjelicahuston #photobook #photography

Tight Heads

Actress model Candy Clark's collection of polaroid photos from the 70s and 80s had been hidden away in a drawer for years - but now they have been published, along with Clark's honest and amusing recollections of the 'before they were famous' stars in a photography book edited by Sam Sweet

1) Artist Ed Ruscha
2) David Bowie
3) Harry Dean Stanton
4) Jeff Bridges

#tightheads #candyclark #polaroids #edruscha #davidbowie #bowie #harrydeanstanton #jeffbridges

hal foster: “fail better. reckoning with artists and critics”

Sandro Ricaldone

HAL FOSTER
Fail Better
Reckoning with Artists and Critics
The MIT Press, 2025
(forthcoming)

“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present,” Hal Foster remarked in a 2015 interview. “By the same token serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” In Fail Better, Foster, an art critic and historian whose influential work spans disciplines and decades, brings this peripatetic perspective to contemporary art, art criticism, art history, and his own work over the past 50 years.

In these 40 texts, Foster reviews artists from Richard Hamilton and Jasper Johns to Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha; considers contemporaries from Louise Lawler and Cindy Sherman to Jeremy Deller and Adam Pendleton; and traces the development of criticism since the early 1960s, with essays on such influential figures as Susan Sontag and Rosalind Krauss and institutions like Artforum magazine and the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

Taking his title from Beckett—“try again, fail again, fail better”—Foster notes that, etymologically, an essay is always an attempt, more or less failed. Critics fail artworks, because there can never be a definitive reading; art fails its historical moment, because it cannot resolve the contradictions that prompt it. But in these failures Foster finds historical consciousness, and with it the promise of future work, future illumination. In his “reckonings” he turns his own long history of criticism to account, and succeeds in conveying shifting concepts of art and criticism, the work of key artists and critics, and the relationships between criticism, theory, history, and politics over the last six decades.

#AdamPendleton #art #arte #ArtforumMagazine #artists #CindySherman #criticism #critics #EdRuscha #GerhardRichter #HalFoster #JasperJohns #JeremyDeller #LouiseLawler #MITPress #RichardHamilton #RosalindKrauss #SusanSontag #WhitneyMuseum #WhitneyMuseumIndependentStudyProgram

Artist Ed Ruscha has been gardening for 50 years but has never wanted to paint a plant. “I’m not sure why,” he said.

"We’re looking together at 2 wooden planks with metal tags hammered into them. Each tag once belonged to a plant that has died, the shiny metal carved with the name of the plant, the date of its death and sometimes its cause: “Passed away / Oct. ’87 / Just dried up.”

“They’re like little epitaphs for the departed,” he says.

#EdRuscha #Plants #Artist

https://www.latimes.com/lifestyle/image/story/2024-08-07/ed-ruscha-on-love-for-plants

🟢 L’enorme archivio di scatti “The Streets of Los Angeles” di Ed Ruscha
Instagram: edruschaofficial + Matthew Miller IG: mattinstafun
di Simone Sbarbati @simonesbarbati su @frizzifrizzi
#edruscha #video #Fotografia

https://www.frizzifrizzi.it/2024/04/18/lenorme-archivio-di-scatti-the-streets-of-los-angeles-di-ed-ruscha/

Excited to see LACMA has an exhibition starting in April, an Ed Ruscha retrospective. I'm such a fan of his work.

#art #EdRuscha

https://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/ed-ruscha-now-then

We have most of #EdRuscha.s famous early #artistsbooks in our collection."Colored People" from 1972 was missing - but only until today! Our little spiky Christmas present 🎁 🌵

https://www.printedmatter.org/catalog/1201/
#Künstlerbücher #art #mastoart #fediart #libraries #bibliotheken