Email Author Catherine Wagley

2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• That Musical About Veganism Starring Jon Secada and Based on the Poetry of Supreme Master Ching Hai, Explained

  published Oct 30, 2012

  Kelly Packard "is well known for her acting work on Baywatch," the emcee in a tux told everyone within earshot Saturday afternoon as Packard approached the red carpet, just before the debut of a new... More >>

• China conquers America

  published September 20, 2012

  In Federico Solmi's films at Luis de Jesus Gallery, each scene looks like a precocious kid's color-crayon masterpiece. Yellow, red and army green... More >>

• Ceiling-fan art

  published October 4, 2012

  In the first room of Ei Arakawa's exhibition at Overduin & Kite, all the art is on the ceiling. Three faceless cloth figures wearing perfectly... More >>

• Hard rock art

  published October 11, 2012

  Axl Rose fought with his wife, Erin Everly, two decades ago and, in the heat of the moment, vandalized his own garage. Or so suggested... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Terrorist in the Museum

  published Oct 24, 2012

  This week, an artist deconstructs the pom-pom, two holes get cut in gallery walls and an exhibition suggests the wrong man took the blame for murder 83 years ago. 5. Wallflower whirlpool Jen Stark... More >>

• Gravity might not exist

  published May 17, 2012

  Renegade scientist James Carter published a zine in 1970 called Gravity Does Not Exist, and he meant it — Newton had been wrong.... More >>

• Risking vulnerability at LACMA

  published August 9, 2012

  "It's so embarrassing to approach somebody and say you want to look at them," photographer Wolfgang Tillmans said in 2011. "But without that... More >>

• Intimacy issues

  published September 27, 2012

  April Street's paintings and wall-hanging sculptures, on view at Carter & Citizen, have complicated body language. Made of painted cloth and... More >>

• Desert spam

  published September 27, 2012

  The Fly Geyser in Nevada resulted from an accident. Well drillers hoping to turn desert into farmland hit a pocket of geothermal water in 1916.... More >>

• MOCA TV Premieres 'Feast of Burden,' a Web Series About an Eastside Dinner Party Gone Wrong

  published Oct 19, 2012

  In Luis Bunuel's 1962 film Exterminating Angel, neurotic, rich guests get stuck at a fancy dinner party in a big, fancy house. They can't leave the house's conservatory for reasons that seem to be p... More >>

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  Why Are Ken Price's Oddball Sculptures at LACMA So Compelling?

  published October 18, 2012

  When she installed LACMA's current exhibition, "Ken Price: A Retrospective," curator Stephanie Barron placed Ken Price's newest work in the... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cereal in Balloons

  published Oct 17, 2012

  This week, one artist pays homage to hits of the 1960s, another pays homage to a discount store and a group of photographers make images too unwieldy to hang on a wall. 5. Jazz without music Free... More >>

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  'Legitimate Rape,' the Art Exhibitr Yes, It Opens Tonight

  published Oct 10, 2012

  See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *Our Latest Theater Reviews "Legitimate Rape," an exhibition of political art that opens tonight at Katherine Cone Gallery, was largely inspired by o... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Feud With Axl Rose

  published Oct 10, 2012

  See also: *Our Latest Theater Reviews *Our Best of L.A. issue and our Best of L.A. app This week, a photograph angers a rock star, an artist compares Fox News with CNN and an iconic sculpture retur... More >>

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  Paul Schimmel's Last Show as MOCA's Chief Curator Features Artists Who Destroy Their Canvases

  published October 4, 2012

  Kazuo Shiraga used to lay canvas out on the floor of his small Tokyo studio and slide around, spreading paint with his feet. Photos of him in... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Ceiling Fan Sculptures

  published Oct 03, 2012

  This week, a painter takes on the weirdness of Bakersfield, an artist sends pictures made to last billions of years into orbit and an artist's biographer talks about why her subject is still being c... More >>

• Art that makes you feel small

  published July 5, 2012

  Amanda Ross-Ho's new show at MOCA's Pacific Design Center space is called "TEENY TINY WOMAN," and her work does make you feel painfully small. In... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Vindictive Office Supplies

  published Sep 26, 2012

  This week, a bathroom in Tokyo becomes an artist's laboratory, a manmade geyser spews in a new video and hosiery makes paintings as awkward and ambivalent as human bodies. 5. Nailing it Chicago ar... More >>

• Richard Serra, Ed Ruscha and Others Created Artwork to Help Obama. But Is it Any Goodr

  published Sep 21, 2012

  Richard Serra, the sculptor whose maze-like steel cylinders take up half the first floor of LACMA's Broad Contemporary building, made an uncharacteristically overt political drawing in 2004. In heav... More >>

• Drawing to the Aliens 2 soundtrack

  published August 16, 2012

  David Askevold moved to California because artist Bas Jan Ader decided to sail the Atlantic alone as part of a project he called In Search of... More >>

• Dangerous dreaming

  published August 9, 2012

  "Learn to Dream," written across John Baldessari's new print five times in five different colors, sounds cliche -- not as bad as "dare to dream,"... More >>

• Funny but not too funny

  published September 6, 2012

  Margo Leavin Gallery will close this fall, after 42 years in business. Its final show, called "Arctic Summer," gets at that cool, pared-down... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Festival of Soccer Art

  published Sep 19, 2012

  This week, homing pigeons interfere with LCD signs on the I-10, one artist takes narcissism to virtuosic heights and another imagines China bringing the United States to its knees. 5. Soccer as end... More >>

• Occupy Used a 'People's Microphone' to Spread Info Through a Crowd. Now There's a People's Mic Choir

  published Sep 17, 2012

  The Occupy Movement's one-year anniversary is today. This means, nation-wide, morning headlines say things like "Why Occupy Fizzed," "Occupy in Disarray but Spirit Lives On" or "Can Occupy Come up w... More >>

• Rock stars in Speedos

  published July 5, 2012

  Brad Elterman, who owns the paparazzi agency Buzz Foto, took his first published photo when he was 16. It showed Bob Dylan during a 1974 concert,... More >>