Editor’s pick: Art

Landmark Pop artist and Ferus Gallery alum Ed Ruscha — famed for his colorful yet desolate panoramas of vacant Standard filling stations, the back of the Hollywood Sign and a variety of odd phrases and slogans — mounts his first Los Angeles-area exhibition of new paintings in 12 years. “Ed Ruscha: Psycho Spaghetti Westerns” features works that are an extension of his “Course of Empire” series, which Ruscha exhibited as the U.S. representative at the 2005 Venice Biennale, wherein the artist explored themes of landscape deterioration in the Hudson River School paintings of Thomas Cole. Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, 456 N. Camden Drive, Beverly Hills. Opens Fri. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Tue.-Sat. (310) 271-9400. https://www.gagosian.com