Email Author Catherine Wagley

2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  Kate Middleton Helped Make Emerald the Color of 2013. An L.A. Art Exhibit Asks Why

  published April 11, 2013

  Last year's color was Tangerine Tango, a deep orange "energy boost." In 2011, it was Honeysuckle, a hot pink that "lifts spirits and imparts... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From a Boy Band Terrorist to Frances McDormand Doing Performance Art

  published Apr 10, 2013

  See also: *Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a panel of architects and a performance at a... More >>

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  LA2050 Is Giving $100,000 For an Art Project, and You Can Vote on Who Gets It

  published Apr 09, 2013

  Making ideals reality can take a frustratingly long time, especially for organizations in need of funding. Grant-writing and paperwork often come first, followed by waiting. That's part of what's exci... More >>

• Role models

  published February 28, 2013

  Novelist Alice Childress titled her 1973 young-adult book, about 13-year-old Benji who's sure he can stop using heroin anytime, after something... More >>

• Making history move

  published March 7, 2013

  You enter Henry Taylor's current exhibition at Blum and Poe through a brown door with frosted glass window in it. The window has "Principal"... More >>

• Claustrophobic dreaming

  published March 21, 2013

  The three smallest oil paintings in Noah Davis' new exhibition, "The Missing Link," at Roberts & Tilton, hang facing each other inside a narrow,... More >>

• High-concept bird's nest

  published March 14, 2013

  In the middle of Samuel Freeman Gallery's glass-walled, oddly shaped courtyard, Claude Stracensky Collins has installed a square, wooden column... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Tween Romance

  published Apr 03, 2013

  See also: *Getty's Pacific Standard Time Series on L.A. Architecture: A Preview *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, the painter who pushed for a "superflat" ae... More >>

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  A Club For People Who Like to Set Things on Fire

  published Mar 28, 2013

  See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying The L.A. fire artist known as Tedward saw police lights flashing out of the corner of his eye just before fi... More >>

• Hashtag-worthy

  published February 14, 2013

  Adam Mars' "Public Privates" paintings hang on Melrose in the front window of Gusford, a gallery that opened just last month. Mars attached faux... More >>

• Staring contest

  published March 14, 2013

  Will Benedict's painting Yellow Fever shows two yellow-tinted figures sitting at a shiny table staring each other down. One has her hand on... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including '90s Flashbacks

  published Mar 27, 2013

  This week, it's all about looking back: One artist revisits 1993 L.A., another borrows the palette of teen pop from 20-some years ago and a museum show features graphically bold, grittily political ... More >>

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  An Artist Who's Obsessed With Dogs That Hang Out Around Art

  published Mar 25, 2013

  See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The Museum of Jurassic Technology (MJT) in Culver City has a permanent exhibit devoted to the Sputnik space dogs, dogs found on Moscow streets, train... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a One-Man Band

  published Mar 20, 2013

  This week, another painted portrait of Kate Middleton debuts, an aesthetic terroist talks about fashion and tea time happens ten days in a row in Chinatown. 5. Man and the machine Llyn Foulkes, the... More >>

• Out of proportion

  published February 7, 2013

  New York artist Carol Bove's sculptures are usually tableaux of found objects -- maybe there's a book on a shelf open to show a rendering of a... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including 'The Happy Show'

  published Mar 13, 2013

  See also: *Asshole Festival 2013: Artists Yell at the Assholes of Los Angeles From a Street Corner in Chinatown *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a designer ... More >>

• Well-dressed nightmares

  published February 21, 2013

  In one of Justin John Greene's "Fashion Drawings," a figure in tight, pink leggings, a flowing gray coat and flowered hat has the hairy face of a... More >>

• Freeways and waterways

  published January 3, 2013

  In 2005, Hans Schabus walked the 52-mile length of the Los Angeles River, photographing all its bridges, making maps and taking notes. Around the... More >>

• Storefront jungle

  published February 14, 2013

  Sarah Cromarty's exhibition at Anna Meliksetian/M.J. Briggs storefront gallery, called "Tyger Tyger," is a jungle fantasy. Moss-covered trees and... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a 28-Foot-Tall Dog Urinating on a Museum

  published Mar 06, 2013

  This week, one artist makes paintings that smear and explode while another makes an ancient monument look lively and a third installs a Dutch living room in a storefront. 5. The better to hear you ... More >>

• A park like no other

  published February 14, 2013

  Ulu Braun's panoramic film The Park takes up one long wall of Young Projects' cavernous Pacific Design Center space. In it, you see a... More >>

• Panther politics remix

  published January 24, 2013

  Pictures of Huey P. Newton, the activist who co-founded the Black Panther Party in 1966, with his tilted beret, leather jacket and firearm across... More >>

• Waste-management performance

  published February 7, 2013

  Artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles joined the New York Department of Sanitation in 1977 as an artist in residence. In this self-appointed, unpaid... More >>

• Hiding place

  published January 31, 2013

  The best way to experience JJ Peet's "Floating Heads and Time Machine" at Redling Fine Art's strip-mall gallery may be to go alone. In the eerie... More >>

• Mind games

  published February 14, 2013

  When James Turrell rented out Ocean Park's old Mendota Hotel in 1966, he famously turned the rooms into perfect, white boxes with no outside light... More >>