Email Author Catherine Wagley

2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Cough Syrup Spraying to a Justin Bieber Song

  published May 22, 2013

  This week, footage about a high-energy collaboration between artists, architects and Pepsi plays at the MAK Center, one artist leads people on a hunt for truth and other intangibles at the Getty and... More >>

• Beauty isn't easy

  published April 25, 2013

  First you see the swirl of purple graffiti, then the broken glass and the splashes of dirty water. Then, finally, you might see the painted... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Whistling Performance

  published May 15, 2013

  This week, an artist makes deadpan jokes in vintage photographs, whistlers convene in Glendale and a Japanese novelist's tragedy of frustrated love is re-staged in Mexico. 5. Crowd of copycats It's ... More >>

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  Rita Gonzalez: LACMA Curator and Defender of Subtlety

  published May 15, 2013

  One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. Five months after a 340-ton rock officially became part of Michael Heizer's ... More >>

• The man who loved paint too much

  published March 7, 2013

  "It seems like you love [paint] more than anybody I know," Dennis Szakacs, the Orange County Museum of Art's director, said to artist Richard... More >>

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  Urs Fischer Traffics in Clichés — But That's Not Necessarily a Bad Thing

  published May 9, 2013

  You might resent artist Urs Fischer after seeing his survey at MOCA. Fischer, a Swiss artist who lives mostly in New York and produces... More >>

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  5 Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Celestial Bowling Party in Eagle Rock

  published May 08, 2013

  This week, an alien-inspired concert/party happens at an iconic bowling alley, and two artists make intricate renderings of mystery plants. 5. The art star with the bloody head In Happy Song for You,... More >>

• Fire in the neighborhood

  published April 18, 2013

  If folk illustrator Grandma Moses collaborated with pop realist David Hockney, the result might look like Eric Ernest Johnson's loosely rendered... More >>

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  Best L.A. Novel Ever: If He Hollers Let Him Go vs. The Tattooed Soldier (Rebels & Outcasts Regional Final)

  published May 03, 2013

  L.A. Weekly is determining the best L.A. novel ever by holding a tournament featuring 32 of our favorites in head-to-head matchups, until there's only one novel standing. For further reading: *Best L.... More >>

• How the Arts District Got Its Name

  published May 02, 2013

  This week's L.A. Weekly profiles the one of the city's hottest neighborhoods: the downtown arts district. Check out the other stories in our series: *Tyler Stonebreaker: Curator of the Downtown Arts D... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Fighting Surrealists

  published May 01, 2013

  This week, an Yves Saint Laurent suit hangs in an elementary school, Marilyn Monroe sings in a Century City bathroom, and a group of writers revises a 1980s tome on looking your best. 5. OK, kids, ... More >>

• Off to the Emerald City

  published March 21, 2013

  Every year, Pantone, the 50-year-old company famous for forecasting which colors will be popular when, names a color of the year. This year, it's... More >>

• Pompeii east of L.A.

  published March 28, 2013

  Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of... More >>

• Self-discovery in Pig Latin

  published April 11, 2013

  The book you see on the table in Richard Telles Fine Art's foyer now says E-thay Inward-Yay Ourney-Jay on its cover, but it used to say... More >>

• Where the picture ends, nobody knows

  published April 4, 2013

  In Brad Eberhard's 4-foot-tall oil painting Entrar, a large group of small figures wearing colored shirts, skirts or pants walks along an... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Cavemen in West Hollywood

  published Apr 24, 2013

  This week, two artists dance with hula-hoops, another uses graffiti to obscure paintings of high-heeled, made-up models and a third installs hairy bronze statues in WeHo. 5. Just say no In 1962, J... More >>

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  MOCA's Always-Crazy Celebrity Gala Included the USC Marching Band and a Jeffrey Deitch Impersonator

  published Apr 22, 2013

  Right now, Swiss artist Urs Fischer's Skinny Afternoon, a life-size sculpture of a skeleton bending over to get close to a mirror, is installed in the courtyard above MOCA's Grand Avenue building. The... More >>

• High-tech domesticity

  published March 14, 2013

  T. Kelly Mason's Typology of Glasses shows a line of casual-looking glassware painted against a baby blue background. The painting is... More >>

• On the cover of Time twice

  published April 4, 2013

  In "Made in Space," curated by Laura Owens and Peter Harkawik at Night Gallery, Jedediah Caesar's bricks of resin run along the floor near where... More >>

• Putting earth in a box so it can break out again

  published April 4, 2013

  There's an awful story in art-world lore about the marriage of Ana Mendieta, the elegant earth artist, and Carl Andre, the clean-edged minimalist.... More >>

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  Refik Anadol Does Fascinating Things With Art and Technology — Like His Plan to Project Video Onto Disney Hall

  published April 18, 2013

  "It won't work," artist Refik Anadol says of Google Glass, those newly introduced "augmented reality glasses," which have a battery behind the... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including the Iconoclastic Urs Fischer at MOCA

  published Apr 17, 2013

  This week, haunting films about cold-war America play for 15 hours straight on Alvarado and an artist sells cellphone holders that make your phone as unwieldy as one from landline days. 5. Holes i... More >>

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  Is This 500-Year-Old African Sculpture Worth $1 Millionr LACMA's Collectors Committee Gets to Decide

  published Apr 16, 2013

  See also: *LACMA Collectors Committee's Battle Royale *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The Resnick Pavilion, the newest building and the only single-story one on the Los Angeles County Museum'... More >>

• Bathroom fixture dreamland

  published January 31, 2013

  He began sculpting sinks in the 1980s, tilting some, warping others, but Robert Gober did not at first remember that, years before, he had a... More >>

• Psychedelic set pieces

  published February 21, 2013

  There are succulents and squares of colored paper in Brice Bischoff's Glassell Park photographs, and there also are succulents and paper squares... More >>