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What’s a piece of art that has inspired you?
During Ed Ruscha’s first time in New York City in 1961, he visited MoMA after giving us a cold call asking to see a drawing. A staff member gave Ruscha a private viewing of Johannes Theodor Baargeld’s “Untitled (Beetles),” which Ruscha described as akin to “getting an audience with the pope.”
62 years later, Ruscha’s major retrospective is on view at the Museum—including “Parking Lines,” a painting made back in car-centric Los Angeles that replaces the insects with rows of automobiles. Baargeld’s “Untitled (Beetles)” hangs just one floor below in our fifth floor galleries.
Hear more from Ruscha in our latest UNIQLO ArtSpeaks → mo.ma/3Euioe4
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