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2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• Chinatown turnover

  published March 8, 2012

  In 2008, artist Terrence Koh filled the basement at 969 Chung King Road with flour four inches deep, and for a month you'd see white footprints up... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Alien at MOCA

  published Apr 18, 2012

  The artists on this week's list have endearing idiosyncrasies: James Lee Byars' obsession with the perfect atmosphere, Cai Guo-Qiang's spiritual pyromania and Dasha Sishkin's perverse approach to gla... More >>

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  Trade You My Painting for a 15" MacBook Air: Barter Night at Barney's Beanery

  published Apr 12, 2012

  A little girl in ballet slippers, a jean jacket and a tulle tutu began an art collection Tuesday night at Barney's Beanery. It was barter night there, and the room with the pool tables in it had bee... More >>

• Rebel with a camera

  published March 29, 2012

  When MOCA staged its big Dennis Hopper retrospective in 2010, it showed glossy, blown-up versions of Hopper's The Fort Worth 400. The... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac

  published Apr 11, 2012

  Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party grav... More >>

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  Eagle Rock's New Rock and Eagle Shop

  published Apr 10, 2012

  Last Saturday, less than a week after she opened the Rock and Eagle Shop on Eagle Rock Boulevard, artist and curator Bettina Hubby heard a man outside the door. "I'm just going to make sure it's not ... More >>

• MOCA remembers Mike Kelley

  published March 8, 2012

  It has to be harrowing to put together a tribute exhibition on short notice. The risk of triteness is huge. Thankfully, MOCA's tribute to Mike... More >>

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  God and Jesus Work at Circuit City, Have Sex With Each Other

  published Apr 06, 2012

  God and Jesus have a sex scene in act two of See What Love the Father Has Given Us, artist Asher Hartman's three-act trip into the weirdness of the Holy Trinity, currently at Machine Project in Echo ... More >>

• Survival Stories

  published January 12, 2012

  "Places of Validation," California African American Museum's contribution to the regionwide Pacific Standard Time initiative, tells stories more... More >>

• "Making Chinatown": Ming Wong

  published February 16, 2012

  Ming Wong played every main role when he remade Roman Polanski's 1974 classic Chinatown — Jack Nicholson's detective, Faye Dunaway's... More >>

• "Deflowered": Judy Chicago

  published March 1, 2012

  Because Judy Chicago changed her name from Judy Gerowitz as a gesture of feminist empowerment and made a concerted effort to turn the word... More >>

• The penis body suit movie

  published March 1, 2012

  Artist Stanya Kahn's hypnotizing 2010 video It's Cool, I'm Good made loneliness manageable without minimizing its pain. Now Kahn asks how... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Bartering for Paintings

  published Apr 04, 2012

  Future and past feel like they're on a collision course this week -- especially in William Leavitt's deceptively mundane drawings of suburbia gone awry and Dennis Hoekstra's and Noah Olmsted's ghostl... More >>

• Jumping through hoops

  published March 15, 2012

  Like its title, "When the Skin Gets Pinched" feels delicate and dangerous. The collaboration between L.A.-based artist Davida Nemeroff and New... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the End of Pacific Standard Time

  published Mar 28, 2012

  Pacific Standard Time, that half-year, regionwide paean to L.A.'s art history, officially ends on March 31. A show of vintage photographs and one last performance event send it off. Everything else o... More >>

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  How Tiger Woods Haters on YouTube Inspired an Art Show

  published Mar 27, 2012

  After Tiger Woods ran into a fire hydrant and his wife pulled him bleeding and unconscious from his Escalade, and after he withdrew from tournaments and admitted to serial infidelity, vloggers talked... More >>

• Light and space mash-up

  published February 23, 2012

  In artist James Turrell's pieces that he calls Sky Spaces or Ganzfelds, you enter pristine, expensively constructed structures and stare into... More >>

• LACMA Rock: Will We Ever Get Past Its Journey and Focus on the Finished Sculpture?

  published March 22, 2012

  Over the 10 days it took for artist Michael Heizer's 340-ton rock to travel from a Riverside quarry to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Return of 24-Hour Film The Clock

  published Mar 21, 2012

  The lineup is excitingly diverse this week: a reprise of Christian Marclay's now-famous 24-hour film, some lush landscape, a little-known L.A. painter, art like a vintage horror movie and (hopefully)... More >>

• Incognito at Santa Monica Museum Hides Which Artists Did Which Paintings. But a Few People Can Tell...

  published Mar 20, 2012

  In Incognito, a 1997 romance that posed as a thriller, the Jason Patric who once ran off with Julia Roberts stars as an art forger. The forger naturally has to be "incognito" because he's a wanted ma... More >>

• Art Made by U.S. Senators

  published January 19, 2012

  Every once in a while, Margo Leavin Gallery pulls out one of the most precious artworks in its vaults, Jeffrey Vallance's Drawings and... More >>

• Bears meet the Nazis

  published February 16, 2012

  Artist James Gobel makes art about bears — big, bearded, gay men — using brightly colored, conventionally crafty materials, mostly felt... More >>

• Urban archeology

  published March 1, 2012

  Commonwealth & Council is hard to find (see our story on it in Arts), but when you finally walk into its small, beautifully sunlit gallery, you'll... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to See This Week, Including Big Holes and Female High Jumpers

  published Mar 14, 2012

  This week's list offers artists making rules, breaking rules or trying to figure out what the rules even are. It also includes a walking tour. 5. War against the photograph Around 2004, painter Davi... More >>

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  LACMA Rock Parties at 'Rockapalooza' in Bixby Knolls, With Pet Rocks, Arby's and The Flintstones

  published Mar 08, 2012

  "You remember the Emperor's New Clothesr" asked B.T. Tuggle, secretary of the Bixby Knolls Kiwanis Club. He set up a table Wednesday on Atlantic Avenue for Rockapalooza, the party Long Beach neighbor... More >>