Artist Ed Ruscha's “Streets of Los Angeles” project has lasted over 50 years, producing over half a million photographs of the city in a systematic attempt to document major streets in LA, including Melrose Avenue, Pacific Coast Highway, and Sunset Boulevard. The Getty Research Institute acquired the “Streets of Los Angeles” archive in 2011 and has been working to digitize the massive collection and make this resource public to scholars of history, art, architecture, urban studies, and more. Ed

'I’m dead serious about being nonsensical.' - Ed Ruscha Meet the artist who combines language and landscapes to create sincere, humorous paintings. 'That tension is where I live' he says. See sixty years of the artist's mountainous text-scapes on free display at Tate Modern. Full video here: http://bit.ly/2L1L4iy | Tate

Tonight on SPECTRUM NEWS, I’m reporting about those incredible photos artist Ed Ruscha took on Sunset Strip, but you can watch the entire segment right here right now! In 1966, Ed Ruscha drove along the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, Los Angeles. Using a motorized camera mounted on the back of a pickup truck, he methodically photographed all of the buildings on each side of the street. He assembled the photos in the artists' book Every Building on the Sunset Strip, which challenged how people t