Email Author Catherine Wagley

2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  FEATURED STORY

  What Land Art Would You Create If Money Were No Objectr Three Artists' Proposals

  published May 24, 2012

  In 1966, Robert Smithson, famous for piling up mud and black basalt in Utah's Great Salt Lake and sculpting it into a 1,500-foot coil called Spiral Jetty, went rock hunting with sculptor Donald Judd. ... More >>

• East Village to Easy Street

  published April 26, 2012

  Kenny Scharf has cleaned up. His name is now a brand, and his cartoonish, pop flamboyance is slicked up and immaculately produced. His gritty East... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Lena Dunham's Girls and Her Dad Carroll's Drawings: Two Approaches to Making Us Uncomfortable

  published May 23, 2012

  Before the New York Studio Program moved from Lower Manhattan to DUMBO, art students there used to gaze from their studios into the apartment painter Carroll Dunham shared with his wife, photo artist ... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Sculptures of Fax Machines

  published May 23, 2012

  This week, snarky performance artist Eleanor Antin remembers Stalin, Paul McCarthy pulls a chair out from under a fictional Natalie Wood and sculptor Emily Counts turns a fax machine mystical. 5. W... More >>

• Modern-day mythmaker

  published April 5, 2012

  Charles Garabedian didn't get the memo, or maybe he just tossed it out. While his peers veered further toward pared-down abstractions (Robert... More >>

• Nomadic dandy

  published April 19, 2012

  "I create atmosphere," said artist James Lee Byars, a dandy and a nomad who lived in Japan and Europe, died in Cairo at age 65 and rarely admitted... More >>

• Dinner-party graveyard

  published April 12, 2012

  In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven nights in a row and eat the exact same four-course... More >>

• Clothing-optional fantasies

  published April 19, 2012

  If Shel Silverstein, who brought the same twisted humor to his children's books that he brought to his Playboy cartoons, had collaborated... More >>

• David Bowie and a dog named Felix

  published April 19, 2012

  Elizabeth Peyton paints what compels her. Often her subjects are iconic: Michelle Obama or Marie Antoinette. Sometimes they're her friends. In her... More >>

• Emotional history hacks

  published May 3, 2012

  Patrick Painter Inc.'s poetic little group show includes just five works, each by an artist who tried to express human emotion in a guttural way.... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Trombone Collective

  published May 16, 2012

  This week, artist and sunglasses designer Alex Israel debuts the talk show he shot in the Pacific Design Center, trombonists perform in a downtown art space, and fringe physicists reinvent gravity. ... More >>

• Backyards in Diamond Bar and Other Oddities

  published January 12, 2012

  In 1980, Joe Deal photographed backyards in Diamond Bar. The images, all black-and-white and clinical, make suburbia seem absolutely absurd. Among... More >>

• Prince at the Forum, revisited

  published April 26, 2012

  Last year at this time, Prince was a third of the way through his "21 Nights" at the Forum in Inglewood. He was inviting Chaka Khan or Missy... More >>

• The "fun" in fundraiser

  published April 26, 2012

  Until May 6, the Beastie Boys' Mike D is moonlighting as a MOCA curator. He has organized a festival of audio-video art that's meant as a... More >>

• The greatest unmade movie?

  published March 29, 2012

  Orson Welles, of "War of the Worlds" fame, never made his own version of Heart of Darkness, but he wanted to. In 1939, he wrote a script... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Malibu in 3-D

  published May 09, 2012

  This week's list includes an awkward, bearded voyeur in West Hollywood, a picture of a white horse in a Chinatown basement and stereoscopic images of made-up archeology in Crenshaw. 5. Underground ... More >>

• Lost in the Blue Whale

  published April 5, 2012

  The first time they visited the galleries in the "Blue Whale" — the Pacific Design Center's big, blue main building — artists Dennis... More >>

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  Do the Mexican Rebel Zapatistas Have a Space Programr A New Exhibit Imagines One

  published May 07, 2012

  In 2000, members of the Zapatista Air Force launched an attack on Mexican soldiers stationed in Chiapas. Before this, no one knew the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, notoriously ill-equipped ... More >>

• Crazy things made normal

  published April 5, 2012

  William Leavitt's paintings look like he assembled his palettes from Home Depot paint chips, and his drawings look like movie-set versions of... More >>

• Anxiety art

  published March 29, 2012

  Curator John Knuth covered the walls of "The Paranoia of Time," the show he organized at Carter & Citizen in Culver City, with thermal survival... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Lena Dunham's Dad's Drawings

  published May 02, 2012

  This week's list includes a show about incarceration, Lena Dunham's dad and art for gamers. 5. Behind bars Artist Jennifer Moon was incarcerated for nine months, though nothing in her current exhibit... More >>

• Are You High on Quixr In Laura Parnes' Fake Gated Community, This Drug Is All the Rage

  published Apr 30, 2012

  Courtesy the artist, Participant Inc. and LAXART"These people don't have friends, Angel. They have interests, and don't you forget it," Tanya tells her co-conspirator in the opening sequence of artis... More >>

• Painting as a game of chance

  published March 1, 2012

  Ellsworth Kelly began painting abstractly, thanks to French schoolchildren. The American artist had been living and teaching in Paris when he... More >>

• Rule breaker

  published March 22, 2012

  Ben Sakoguchi's Right/Wrong paintings parody what's allowed and not allowed in art. It's right to be an eccentric abstractionist like... More >>

• Photography with your ex-wife

  published March 29, 2012

  They'd been divorced five years when artist Leigh Ledare invited his ex-wife, Meghan Ledare Fedderly, to spend a weekend with him in upstate New... More >>