Email Author Catherine Wagley

Awards

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "The Art of NASCAR"

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Disney Demo"

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2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• A Fake Ted Talk that Almost Makes Sense, Then Doesn't

  published Oct 04, 2013

  It's hard to image something revolutionary arriving in a familiar package. The insidious things -- like fascism in the form of boys in knee socks with bowl cuts, or the Joker inside of a cake -- are... More >>

• On Doug Aitken's Art Train, You Agree to Be Filmed, And Happy Hour Starts at 5:01

  published Oct 03, 2013

  "I'm not cutting, just getting a photo," said a tall man in a white button-down shirt with iPhone poised, sliding between me and my view of No Age last Thursday night. The duo was playing at Union S... More >>

• Fighting words

  published September 19, 2013

  The centerpiece of "Antagonistic," York Chang's installation at Commonwealth and Council, is an email exchange that may or may not have actually... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Black-Light Painting Tour

  published Oct 02, 2013

  This week, an irreverent painter tells the story of the universe and a fantastic photo of a faux rock house features in a Santa Monica exhibition. 5. Hair power A woman with newly braided cornrows si... More >>

• Time lopes along

  published July 11, 2013

  Chris Johanson's exhibition at MOCA's Pacific Design Center satellite is called "Within the River of Time Is My Mind." Painted blue 2-by-4s with... More >>

• Little things made big

  published August 15, 2013

  You have to pull aside two heavy, gray curtains to get into the dark back gallery at Matthew Marks, where Trisha Donnelly's untitled film... More >>

• Shoestring sci-fi

  published September 5, 2013

  A man shown against a night sky explains that he lives with oxen but that he is one of the last who does, "since the planet upon which men live... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Zombie-Puppet Pianist

  published Sep 25, 2013

  This week, an experimental opera mimics a TED Talk and a sculptor who's been at it since the 1950s debuts impressively hip work. 5. Letting things get weird Kitchen Steve, performance artist Geo Wy... More >>

• Odd ones out

  published August 29, 2013

  A thick, blue, ropey extension goes from an outlet in the floor up to the shelf that's at the center of Jessica Stockholder's sculpture, then... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Eli Broad Reveals Details of His New Museum, Which May Appease the Skeptics After All

  published Sep 18, 2013

  Thursday night at Central Library's auditorium, Ken Brecher spoke lyrically about the time "when Grand Avenue came to life" and "contemporary artists were celebrated for what they told us" about ourse... More >>

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  GLOW Festival in Santa Monica: The Trials of Creating an Art Show on the Beach

  published September 19, 2013

  A gas-fueled fire ring, held up by specially built scaffolding that rises over Santa Monica sand, will light up on Sept. 28 at sunset, as if... More >>

• FEATURED STORY

  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Vibrating Musical Beds

  published Sep 18, 2013

  This week, an artist revisits a fashion designer's flirtation with pop and a radio station will broadcast in a museum whisper. 5. Keeping your voice down KCHUNG, the radio station mostly run by ar... More >>

• Blue satin streamers

  published August 15, 2013

  The house Richard Neutra built in the 1930s across the street from the Silver Lake Reservoir, which his son rebuilt in the late 1960s after a fire... More >>

• Through the looking glass

  published August 8, 2013

  Nevio de Zolt's Window, a new light-box video by artist Brian Bress, is both meta and mundane. You first see the bangs, long hair and... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Occult Ritual With Strobe Lights

  published Sep 11, 2013

  This week, one artist poses as a hypnotist, another digs deep into occult ritual and a third makes an uncharacteristically buoyant ad. 5. Low-stakes Breathalyzers and eye charts for fun DMV: After... More >>

• Nicer than The Fountainhead

  published July 4, 2013

  Actor Gary Cooper had just played Howard Roark, an indomitable purist of an architect, in the film version of Ayn Rand's Fountainhead ... More >>

• For the love of the chase

  published June 6, 2013

  "Four bowler hats. some coffee cups and neckties have enough (are fed-up) and revolt from 11:50-12 a.m.," wrote prolific German artist Hans... More >>

• Relentlessly useless

  published August 15, 2013

  Artist Richard Artschwager made his first "blp" circa 1967, when graffiti was just starting to appear in the United States. The charcoal-colored... More >>

• Contorted, broken and miscellaneous

  published August 15, 2013

  Georg Herold's Mount Parnass is a towering, jagged, fuchsia figure made of wood, canvas and lacquer. One of its legs reaches up toward the... More >>

• Funny face in a serious case

  published August 8, 2013

  Shayne Ehman's sculpture The Dead Bodies of Humanity looks, sounds and initially feels darker than it actually is. It's a wooden box with a... More >>

• Intrinsic logic

  published August 8, 2013

  There is sometimes a sous chef in New York-based artist Darren Bader's exhibition at Blum & Poe, and sometimes not. Or so an official-looking sign... More >>

• Two by two

  published August 22, 2013

  Katrina Umber's current show at Charlie James Gallery is called "And" because every photograph is paired or superimposed on another. Those in her... More >>

• Disaster photos

  published August 22, 2013

  Painter Christopher Wool in 1997 took a series of photographs of his New York studio, called Incident on 9th Street. There are shattered... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Experimental Baby-sitting

  published Sep 04, 2013

  This week, a pop-up show features cowboys more heart-wrenched and wavering than conventionally macho, and a museum remembers a friar's role in shaping Southern California. 5. Experimental baby-sitt... More >>

• Feeling fictional

  published August 15, 2013

  Actress Herlinde Smet's eyes start to water the first time she recites the "All persons fictitious" disclaimer, the one that appears at the start... More >>