Ed Ruscha is a key figure in Los Angeles’s ongoing battle for recognition as a center for fine art.

The artists have officially abandoned LA MOCA, Los Angeles’s only museum devoted to contemporary art.

MOCA’s current exhibition, Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, is the first attempt by a museum to thematically organize and display Land Art, a movement closely associated with Robert Smithson in which the physical landscape becomes the artistic medium.