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from ARTINFO<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Ed Ruscha Honored at National Arts Awards<\/h1>\n

By Andrew Russeth<\/h2>\n

NEW YORK\u2014Balls of fire fell on a dark, deserted lake in a video by\u00a0Kelly Richardson<\/a>\u00a0projected on a screen at Cipriani 42nd Street last night. It was an eerie sight, though few seemed to mind:\u00a0Jeff Koons<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nancy Pelosi<\/a>\u00a0were chatting and posing for photographs together, just one of the unexpected friendships that seemed to blossom at theNational Arts Awards<\/strong>, which included an unusual mixture of representatives from the nation\u2019s art, business, and political intelligentsia.<\/p>\n

The ceremony, organized by\u00a0Americans for the Arts<\/strong>, honored individuals for their contributions to the nation\u2019s artistic life:\u00a0Robert Redford<\/a>,\u00a0Salman Rushdie<\/a>, philanthropist\u00a0Sidney Harman<\/a>, Bank of America (accepted by Chief Marketing Officer\u00a0Anne Finucane<\/a>), and\u00a0Ed Ruscha<\/a>, who seemed like an ideal \u2014 and definitively American \u2014 representative from the visual arts world.<\/p>\n

Ruscha has wielded the American automobile as an artistic tool, making art from gas stations photographed on trips across the West and images snapped while cruising the Sunset Strip on a Sunday morning. His contributions to the 2005\u00a0Venice Biennale<\/a>\u00a0showed the exteriors of corporate office buildings and factories, the anonymous workshops of American capitalism.<\/p>\n

Author\u00a0James Frey<\/a>, who commissioned from Ruscha a work that reads \u201cPublic Stoning\u201d after being dragged through the media for his stretching of the truth in his memoir\u00a0A Million Little Pieces<\/em>, was similarly affectionate in a video tribute to the artist. \u201cEd Ruscha is the king of California!\u201d he exclaimed. \u201cEd Ruscha is the coolest guy in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, Ruscha seemed pleasantly bemused about the plaudits he was receiving. Handed his award, he pretended to struggle with its weight. \u201cI think it\u2019s a little ironic to pick someone who makes images using colored goo swabbed on with animal fur connected to a piece of wooden stick,\u201d he told the crowd. \u201cIt boggles the mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

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from ARTINFO Ed Ruscha Honored at National Arts Awards By Andrew Russeth NEW YORK\u2014Balls of fire fell on a dark, deserted lake in a video by\u00a0Kelly Richardson\u00a0projected on a screen at Cipriani 42nd Street last night. It was an eerie sight, though few seemed to mind:\u00a0Jeff Koons\u00a0and\u00a0Nancy Pelosi\u00a0were chatting and posing for photographs together, just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}