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2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• Stripe-obsessed

  published September 6, 2012

  Daniel Buren's trademark stripes are typically 8.75cm wide and vertical. The French artist, who began putting stripes on canvases, billboards,... More >>

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  Does the Pacific Design Center Work as a Gallery Hub? Annie Wharton and John Espinosa Think So

  published September 13, 2012

  Shopping malls make artists squirm. The garish lighting, endless corridors, blatantly lowbrow commercialism: It all seems set up to dull the... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Human Microphone

  published Sep 12, 2012

  This week, artists fix up and sell other artists' artwork, a choir performs songs based on protest techniques and discarded packing material invades pop culture. 5. Paper girls in a dress shop In S... More >>

• Uncomfortable Spandex

  published August 2, 2012

  Pamela Rosenkranz's painting Avoid Contact (dim glow) is a mess of pink paint in the center of a big rectangle of tan Spandex. The pink... More >>

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  Katy Grannan and Charlie White Bring Their Unique Portrait Photography to LACMA

  published September 6, 2012

  It's not obvious at first that Charlie White and Katy Grannan, the photographers whose work features in LACMA's new two-person exhibition "The... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Castle in the Clouds

  published Sep 05, 2012

  This week, a performance artist celebrates a jazz singer, a Parisian artist celebrates a German-born architect and an iconic L.A. gallery says goodbye with the same savvy it's always had. 5. Everyo... More >>

• Made in L.A. 2012: Slanguage

  published July 12, 2012

  Culver City’s gallery row, especially the La Cienega stretch, is appallingly bland. Nearly all the buildings are squat and square, with... More >>

• Tween art

  published July 5, 2012

  The Urban Dictionary defines "tweens" as girls ages 9-14, "too old for toys, too young for boys." OHWOW gallery's current show takes that phrase... More >>

• Macho flutist with lady legs

  published August 23, 2012

  The best art in L & M Arts "Mash Up" show of new and old collage hangs in the East gallery. There, a cartoonish eye gazes out of an expanse of... More >>

• Does someone live here?

  published August 2, 2012

  Daniele Balice, who co-founded Paris' Gallerie Balice Hertling, and Jay Ezra Nayssan posed as set designers rather than curators when they... More >>

• Thirty-five-foot skyscraper

  published August 23, 2012

  Night Gallery is always dark. It opens only after the sun is long gone and it's barely lit inside or out. But Adam Gordon's installation at the... More >>

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  How a Shabby Hollywood Intersection Became a Hot New Art District

  published August 30, 2012

  "I can't wait for it to be perfect," says Shaun Caley Regen, who has just led the way down from the roof of her still-unfinished new building... More >>

• Criminal activity

  published August 2, 2012

  In 1973, artist Ana Mendieta poured animal blood on the stoop and sidewalk of her Iowa City apartment and filmed from a car as people walked by,... More >>

• Uncomfortable Spandex

  published August 2, 2012

  Pamela Rosenkranz's painting Avoid Contact (dim glow) is a mess of pink paint in the center of a big rectangle of tan Spandex. The pink looks kind... More >>

• Artists who like accidents

  published July 26, 2012

  In 1969, Doug Edge made a bench called Earth, Seed, Water Bus Bench, fabricated out of plastic, with seeds encased inside its seat, soil in... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Three Rooms of Leaning Walls

  published Aug 29, 2012

  This week, a geophysicist speaks at LACMA, a long-lived gallery says goodbye and Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid's fictional marriage kind of inspires an exhibition. 5. Musical mystery No instruments... More >>

• Helmut Newton: The Surprisingly Sunny L.A. Legacy of the 'Porno Chic' Photographer

  published Aug 23, 2012

  Writer Eve Babitz, who knows art and Hollywood better than most, says that when hotelier Andre Balazs bought the Chateau Marmont circa 1990 and wanted to redo the rooms, he consulted Helmut Newton. ... More >>

• Formwandler: Sarah Conaway, Dan Finsel, Caroline Thomas, others

  published July 12, 2012

  In Lucas Blalock’s prints, it often seems like something — a person or a creature — is writhing around beneath the surface. He... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Techno in a Car Wreck

  published Aug 22, 2012

  [Editor's Note: After we went to press, we were informed that the date for Bass Elegy/Devil's Night (for M.K.) has been moved from Sat., Aug. 25 to Sat., Sept. 1 at 8 p.m.] This week, an exhibition... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Margo Leavin Gallery, Closing After 42 Years: How It Became One of L.A.'s Best

  published Aug 17, 2012

  Tuesday, Margo Leavin Gallery announced it will close after forty-two years. The news comes as a surprise. L.A. galleries close, move or rebrand themselves all the time, but not Margo Leavin. Hers h... More >>

• Feelin' the dirty funk

  published August 9, 2012

  There's a totem pole made of plastic chicken nuggets and onions with eyes rising up to ACME Gallery's ceiling right now. Artist Michael Decker... More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cloned Plastic Rabbits

  published Aug 15, 2012

  This week, there's a pithy, pink Ron English billboard on Temple, a tongue-in-cheek guide to L.A.'s Chinatown and human-scale dioramas being made on-site in Hollywood. 5. Fundraising for friends F... More >>

• Peepholes and mystics

  published July 26, 2012

  Maya Deren, a charmingly mysterious filmmaker, made The Very Eye of Night in 1958, only three years before her death. It shows a night sky... More >>

• Pablo Rasgado: Fragmental / John Divola, Sayre Gomez, Joe Goode: L'idée Fixe

  published July 12, 2012

  The tiny show in Steve Turner’s upstairs gallery considers windows and not much else. Veteran L.A. artists Joe Goode and John Divola and... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Precocious Parrot

  published Aug 08, 2012

  This week, there's a concise, color-coordinated performance that's kind of about a bird, an art show that unfolds over the telephone and a slightly surreal stairwell in Pasadena. 5. Dangerous drea... More >>