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2012 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• "Modern Times, Forever"

  published January 26, 2012

  The Danish collective SUPERFLEX built a life-size McDonald's replica, then flooded it to foreshadow capitalism's doom for the 21-minute film it... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the LACMA Rock and Martha Stewart Meeting a Hoarder

  published Mar 07, 2012

  This week's list includes a tribute, disguise, displacement, hoarder and megalith. It runs the gamut, in other words. 5. Banana face Urs Fischer likes obstructions and disguises. Better yet are obst... More >>

• Ming Wong Remakes Chinatown at REDCAT, Playing All the Roles Himself

  published Mar 06, 2012

  The final scene of Roman Polanski's 1974 film Chinatown is the only one actually set in Chinatown. The others take place in downtown offices, fancy clubs, Hollywood houses or Valley groves. But even ... More >>

• How Do You Create a Fake Theater Trouper Art Collective My Barbarian Pulls it Off at Human Resources

  published Mar 01, 2012

  Opening night of My Barbarian's new show, Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater, artist Anna Sew Hoy rolled and writhed on the floor while a backup band played. She'd been selected from the audienc... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Penis Costume Film

  published Feb 29, 2012

  Our list this week includes not just a video with someone dressed in a penis costume but also Ellsworth Kelly, a hidden Koreatown gallery and the ubiquitous Judy Chicago. 5. Making money sing CamLa... More >>

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  LACMA Rock, Michael Heizer's 340-Ton Sculpture, Begins its Journey to L.A.

  published Feb 29, 2012

  "God made the rock. Man made all this equipment," said a Riverside resident who'd driven to Jurupa Valley, a few miles east of home last night. He and over a hundred others gathered to see a 340-ton... More >>

• "Jamais Vu": Emilie Halpern

  published January 26, 2012

  Emilie Halpern's pitch-perfect exhibitions keep proving that art and artists can be well-adjusted, levelheaded and still interesting. Her second... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Murdered Paintings

  published Feb 22, 2012

  Everything on this week's list is either radical or rebellious, or hopelessly nostalgic about being radical and rebellious. 5. Revolutionizing the Sunset Strip The original Artists' Tower of Protes... More >>

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  Infantcore: Babies Create Experimental Music in Jam Session at Machine Project

  published Feb 21, 2012

  Babies came in waves on Saturday, for Machine Project's Infantcore, a five-hour experimental jam session in which playing 6- to 18-month-olds determined what erratic, synthesized sounds would be hea... More >>

• Eugenia Butler: How a Wacky Gallerist Inspires the L.A. Art World Today

  published February 16, 2012

  On Good Friday in 1974, L.A. gallerist Eugenia Butler Sr. called artist Charles Garabedian to say she was dying. "Will you come to my funeral... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Music by Babies

  published Feb 15, 2012

  Two exhibitions with Chinatown in the title top this week's list, and both are remakes. One further twists Roman Polanski's already twisted classic film about where incest meets corporate corruption.... More >>

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  What Happens When You Look at One Painting for an Hourr

  published Feb 10, 2012

  Seven years ago, artist Nuttaphol Ma spent three hours staring at a painting he hated. He was working at the Santa Monica Museum of Art and was assigned to stand guard over a particularly vulnerable... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Grim Reaper's Bike Seat

  published Feb 08, 2012

  Great video is slated to screen Valentine's Day at the Hammer, and the inspired My Barbarian collective is moving into Human Resources' Chinatown space for a monthlong residency, which can only brin... More >>

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  John Sedlar Creates Pacific Standard Time Menu at Playa, With Dishes Inspired by L.A. Art

  published Feb 06, 2012

  Main course inspired by Ed Ruscha's painting LACMA on Fire "You screwed up," chef John Rivera Sedlar told Getty curator Andrew Perchuk in the months before Pacific Standard Time began. The sprawling... More >>

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  Mike Kelley's Unofficial, Spontaneous Memorial on Tipton Way in Highland Park

  published Feb 02, 2012

  Mike Kelley was "arguably" the most important L.A. artist of his generation, "arguably" the one who changed the world's perception of Los Angeles, even "arguably" the most important contemporary art... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including John Elway as a Cowboy and an Apology From Claire Danes

  published Feb 01, 2012

  The best art this week is all in Hollywood, where major-leaguers look like superheroes and an eccentric 1960s gallerist makes a thrilling comeback. 5. Sunglass art Artist Alex Israel, who makes sur... More >>

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  Banks Violette's Sculptures Inspired by NASCAR and Dale Earnhardt Jr.

  published Jan 26, 2012

  "I'm pretty sure my fans will wear this award as a badge of honor," racer Dale Earnhardt Jr. said when he accepted the 2011 Most Popular NASCAR Driver Award in December. "And so they should, because... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Longest Film Ever Made

  published Jan 26, 2012

  Pacific Standard Time's performance-art festival continues through this weekend, but there are a few great exhibitions to see as well. One in Chinatown is almost therapeutic, while another, on Wilsh... More >>

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  Art Fairs: Why Do They Make People Uncomfortabler

  published Jan 24, 2012

  "We have this enormous audience of almost 11,000," said Tim Fleming, director of Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC), held at Barker Hangar and one of three art fairs in L.A. this past weekend. "And... More >>

• Art With the Dinosaurs

  published January 12, 2012

  With all the historical L.A. exhibitions proliferating this fall, the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park wanted to show that it, too,... More >>

• Brian Bress' Wacky Videos Starring Scary Puppets and Gene Kelly

  published Jan 19, 2012

  Brian Bress' video portrait Infinite Man is actually of a woman, even though that woman wears a Gene Kelly look-alike mask and circles around for ten minutes in front of tens of identical male faces... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the World's Sexiest Performance Artist

  published Jan 18, 2012

  From a pseudo-sitcom and beachside choreography to feminist nostalgia and midcentury design, this week's list feels particularly well-rounded. (Also check out our preview of Pacific Standard Time's P... More >>

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  Damien Hirst's Spot Paintings: Are They Any Goodr

  published Jan 13, 2012

  "I often get asked about the spot paintings," said artist Damien Hirst in 1997, interviewed eleven years after he'd begun painting colored dots on white, spacing them systematically and never repeat... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do This Week: From Lenin on La Brea to a Cactus Drawn by Barry Goldwater

  published Jan 11, 2012

  Pacific Standard Time's "Performance and Public Art" and Liz Glynn's "Spirit Resurrected," two performance art festivals, happen this month, so for once the event and performance lineup will outshin... More >>

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  Mr. Brainwash's 'Art Show 2011' Gets Populism Right

  published Jan 05, 2012

  Update: Show has been extended, and will be open one more day, on Jan. 8. Doors open at 2 p.m. Location is 960 N. La Brea Ave. At "Art Show 2011," equivocal street artist Mr. Brainwash's 80,000 squ... More >>