At the Whitney
Hal Foster: Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Sublime, 2 September 2004
“... there is a hint of catastrophe, a sick glow beyond the usual smog, a touch of Nathanael West or Joan Didion. Though he is a believer to the end, Ruscha suggests that Los Angeles might be a mirage and California a myth – a façade about to crumble into the desert, a set about to liquefy into the ... ”