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2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  FEATURED STORY

  10 Most Memorable L.A. Art Events of 2012

  published Dec 19, 2012

  See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Top 10 Films of 2012 This year felt like a year of growing pains for art in Los Angeles. Maybe that's because 2012 started as Pacific Standard Time ... More >>

• Tripped-out religious rites

  published November 22, 2012

  The monks in the 1964 film Becket wore cloaks creepily similar to ones worn by those cultish characters in Stanley Kubrick's last film,... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Beyonce Singing to the HIV Virus

  published Dec 12, 2012

  This weekend, a dinner pays homage to Jonathan Swift, a virus dances to Beyonce and the politically minded star of a soft-core film crosses paths with a pair of kings. 5. Imaginary island dinner In... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Dream Drawings to a King Kong Mash-Up

  published Dec 05, 2012

  See also: *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. *Our Latest Theater Reviews This week, artist Jim Shaw pops up in two places, a TV phenomenon loosely inspires an exhibition ... More >>

• Kiss of death and a swimming pool

  published November 22, 2012

  Sota means "wayward wife" and the Sota ritual, vaguely alluded to in Hebrew scripture, was meant to prove a wife had strayed. A high... More >>

• Low expectations

  published November 1, 2012

  "It's not that I don't trust the director, but he seems to be underestimating the challenges ahead," says Q, the long-haired, listlessly elegant... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Renaissance Painting With RoboCop

  published Nov 28, 2012

  This week, the ghost of a long-defunct society hosts a concert in Culver City, a video artist channels allergy-drug commercials and a sculptor pumps water through a maze of PVC pipes. 5. Renaissance... More >>

• Even pressure

  published November 8, 2012

  Artist Gabriele Salazar placed a miniature level between two sets of small, wood shims, which she then with a rubber band fastened together at the... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Cruise Ship Music to an Excommunication

  published Nov 21, 2012

  This week, a composer recounts his residency aboard a cruise ship, two video projects re-create haunting religious rituals and an artist-turned-wedding planner promotes her new book. 5. Performance... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Ray Bradbury-Themed Art Exhibit Opens in a Gallery Located Where the Sci-Fi Master Once Lived

  published Nov 15, 2012

  Ray Bradbury, the fantasy-fiction mastermind who wrote Fahrenheit 451 and really did believe man would make it to Mars sooner than later, moved to L.A. from Illinois in 1934 as a teenager. His family... More >>

• L.A. horror story

  published October 25, 2012

  Kerry Tribe's new exhibition at 1301 PE is a 40-minute commitment and worth whatever time you can spare. For the fast-paced, 10-minute video that... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Scented Satellites to Musical Dry Ice

  published Nov 14, 2012

  This week, an army of minimalist sculptures emits the sent of Pine Sol, a composer uses dry ice to make music and MOCA PDC becomes an arcade. 5. Climate controlled concert The Quartz Cantabile is a... More >>

• Sexy cloth scraps

  published October 18, 2012

  If you leave out what they're made of, descriptions of Alika Cooper's compositions can sound like vintage erotica: a close-up of a nude torso, a... More >>

• High hipsters at Hop Louie

  published August 16, 2012

  Audrey Chan's video Chinatown Abecedario, illustrated like a children's book, gives one Chinatown truth or cliche for each letter of the... More >>

• Whited-out activism

  published October 4, 2012

  The prints from Juan Capistran's new show at Thomas Solomon Gallery are so white that, if you look at them online, you can't even tell what they... More >>

• Wallflower whirlpool

  published October 25, 2012

  Jen Stark cut a hole the shape of a water lily into the northernmost wall of Martha Otero gallery, then built up layer upon layer of carefully... More >>

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  MOCAtv on YouTube: Museum Tries to Lure Online Art Lovers

  published November 8, 2012

  "I have 140 characters and a twit pic at my disposal," says a tall, gangly landlord named Petey Cruzer. He has just seen his tenant Benny with... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Photos in a Red Line Metro Station

  published Nov 07, 2012

  This week's list includes a feisty auctioneer, art in a Metro station and a real-life Romeo and Juliet. 5. The last auction Robert Berman has been running Santa Monica Auctions for going on three de... More >>

• Off the wall

  published October 18, 2012

  Mariah Robertson printed her photograph 111 on wide metallic paper that she cut into an irregular shape. The photograph is of a photograph... More >>

• A psychoanalyst's hairdresser

  published September 20, 2012

  Jacques Lacan's hairdresser, Karolos Kambelopoulos, sat for an interview in 2008. "I used to like his hair," said Kambelopoulos of the famed... More >>

• Honky-tonk painting

  published October 11, 2012

  Bakersfield is a different kind of California, one that's kind of like a mix between Nashville and Texas. It's where Okies landed during the Dust... More >>

• Tokyo nights

  published September 27, 2012

  Regen Projects, a gallery that has been based out of leased West Hollywood buildings since 1989, opened its immaculate new space off the corner of... More >>

• Tribute to the chart toppers

  published October 18, 2012

  In Dave Mueller's Blum & Poe show, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah," multiple soundtracks play at once and Top 100 hits from 1969 to 1972 cycle through on... More >>

• Missing person

  published October 11, 2012

  The handwritten text on the lobby wall of Patrick Painter Inc. explains that reclusive, genius rocker Conrad M. has disappeared. No one knows much... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Father-Son Phone Books

  published Oct 31, 2012

  This week, flowers and fetish photos hang one on top of the other at LACMA, the Getty throws a party for an 80-year-old mural and an artist shadows a possibly imaginary former classmate. 5. Nine-ye... More >>