A comprehensive display of Ed Ruscha’s artist’s books, text-based paintings, and photography opened in London last week at Tate Modern’s Blavatnik building. A Nebraska-born artist who defies categorization, Ruscha is adept in any medium, deriving inspiration from seemingly mundane architecture, topography, and mass media. Book collectors will be most familiar with his photobooks, e.g.
Los Angeles - The J. Paul Getty Trust announced today it will present the annual J. Paul Getty Medal, its highest honor, to renowned Classicist Professor Mary Beard and artists Lorna Simpson and Ed Ruscha.
Established in 2013 by the trustees of the J. Paul Getty Trust, the J. Paul Getty Medal has been awarded to 11 distinguished individuals to honor their extraordinary contributions to the practice, understanding and support of the arts.
NEW YORK, NY (August 2015)—The New-York Historical Society is pleased to announce two major donations to its Museum collection.
DALLAS—Andy Warhol’s iconic screenprint Moonwalk, 1987—directly from the private c
NEW YORK—On February 27, Swann Galleries will offer a two-part sale of Fine Photographs with a separate catalogue devoted to The Library of Bill Diodato, which comprises more than 250 lots of photobooks and fine art photographs by some of the most important artists of the last century, including Ric
DALLAS — A portfolio of 10 screen prints from Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species, 1983, may bring $250,000 to lead Heritage Auctions' May 22 Modern and Contemporary Art Signature® Auction in Dallas.
