Date & Time: December 11, 2025 17:00-18:00 (Reception opens at 16:45)
Venue: Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo / EVENT SPACE (1F / next to the museum shop)
Admission: Free (a TABF admission ticket valid on the day of the event is required)
Language: Japanese, English [Interpreter: Hiroko Shiratori]
Speaker: Emily Pugh (Principal Research Specialist at the Getty Research Institute)
Emily Pugh presents the publication Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City, created by the Getty using its digital publishing tool Quire and available in both print and digital formats. The book provides an introduction to Ruscha's Streets of Los Angeles project, which began with Every Building on the Sunset Strip and continues into 2025. Comprising an extensive artistic record of Los Angeles with over 900,000 images of major thoroughfares, Ruscha's photographs constitute an unparalleled visual chronicle of both iconic and everyday sites in the city, including popular music venues, neighborhood restaurants, and billboards promoting Hollywood’s latest blockbusters.
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Emily Pugh
Emily Pugh is a Principal Research Specialist at the Getty Research Institute, specializing in architectural and urban history. Her publications include the 2014 book /Architecture, Politics, and Identity in Divided Berlin/ and essays for /photographies/ and /Debates in the Digital Humanities/, and the co-edited book /Ed Ruscha’s Streets of Los Angeles: Artist, Image, Archive, City/(2025). Her work has been supported by the Center for Architecture Theory Criticism History at the University of Queensland and by the Humboldt University in Berlin where she served as the 2022–23 Rudolf Arnheim Visiting Professor.