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Indepth Arts News: "Ed Ruscha" 2000-11-18 until 2001-02-04 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Chicago, IL, USA
The show will consist of approximately sixty paintings,
twenty-five drawings, and several books
This exhibition is coordinated by Manilow Senior Curator Francesco Bonami.
This exhibition has been organized by the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. Major support
for the exhibition has been provided by The Henry Luce Foundation with additional support from
Melva Bucksbaum, J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, and The Broad Art Foundation. Other funding
was provided by The Ansley I. Graham Trust and Emily Fisher Landau.
Support for the Chicago presentation has been generously provided by the Kovler Family Fund,
Andrea and James Gordon, Kenneth C. Griffin, Hortense Singer, Danielle and Martin Zimmerman,
the J. Ira and Nicki Harris Foundation, the Jacqueline S. Harris Foundation, and the State of
Illinois. IMAGE:
Edward Ruscha: Editions 1959-1999 | 
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Co-curated by Kerry Brougher, Chief
Curator, Hirshhorn Museum, and Neal
Benezra, Deputy Director and Curator
of Modern and Contemporary Art, The
Art Institute of Chicago, this
exhibition will survey Ruscha's
paintings, drawings, and books from
1960 to the present. One of the most
consistently inventive artists of the contemporary period, Ruscha has
been a pioneer in the use of language and imagery drawn from the
popular media.