Email Author Catherine Wagley

Awards

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "The Art of NASCAR"

• 2013 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club

  "Disney Demo"

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2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Tap Dancing to Ruined Billboards

  published Jul 24, 2013

  This week, one artist makes crystals from scratch, another paints portraits of people who share his name, and a third focuses on the rhythms of the StairMaster. 5. Get-togethers "Show and Tell" at... More >>

• OK, kids, get ready for fancy dresses!

  published May 2, 2013

  Artist Shinique Smith traveled from New York to Los Angeles a few times this year to meet with students at Charles White Elementary School, to... More >>

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  The Odyssey, Performed in a Honda Odyssey

  published Jul 19, 2013

  Odysseus does not return to the seductive, possessive Kalypso once he escapes her lair in Homer's telling of The Odyssey. But in writer-artist Johanna Kozma's version, he does return. Also, in Kozma... More >>

• True-grit fairy tale

  published June 20, 2013

  Entering "Fleeting Diversions," Jasmine Little's current exhibition at Jancar Gallery, is like walking into a fairy tale, but the dense kind the... More >>

• Heavy-duty delicacy

  published June 27, 2013

  In 1971, Koji Enokura built a concrete wall between two trees for the Paris Biennial. It was almost 10 feet tall but, in the black-and-white... More >>

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  When Art Meets Therapy

  published July 18, 2013

  Artist Linda Montano became the Chicken Woman in 1971. She made nine clandestine appearances around San Francisco wearing a blue and white prom... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including an Empty Convenience Store

  published Jul 17, 2013

  This week, a group of performers in bright red tights play music while posing as body parts and an artist films his family singing in a language they don't know. 5. The gory kind of consumerism The... More >>

• Performance Artist Ron Athey Debuts Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains

  published Jul 13, 2013

  Unless you were one of the very first to enter Ron Athey's performance, Incorruptible Flesh: Messianic Remains, when the doors at Human Resources opened Wednesday night, you probably didn't see Athe... More >>

• No one got the joke

  published May 16, 2013

  Before William Wegman became famous for wryly photographing his dog, a Weimaraner named Man Ray, he'd accumulated an equally wry series of... More >>

• Cutting up books with Maya Lin

  published June 6, 2013

  When Italian critic Germano Celant published his book Arte Povera, a term he coined to describe "poor art" made of ravaged materials, L.A.... More >>

• Brightness with a backbone

  published June 13, 2013

  Yunhee Min used a squeegee to apply acrylic paint to the linen-covered frames and the tubes of fluorescent lights standing vertically in her... More >>

• Cool customer

  published May 30, 2013

  Most of the paintings in John Wesley's current exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery are done in his favorite colors: blues and pinks. They're... More >>

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  Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including a Fake UFO and a Lot of Lamps

  published Jul 10, 2013

  This week, a river made of wood planks runs through a museum and an artist turns severed feet into amusing mascots. 5. Like a chicken with its head cut off "He journeyed from France to the crappy ... More >>

• Can you be beautiful if you're awkward and embarrassed?

  published May 16, 2013

  "Has anyone ever recoiled when you tried to kiss them?" Alex Segade asks Wu Tsang in Mishima in Mexico, a film the artists made together,... More >>

• A set that needs no actors

  published June 13, 2013

  New York artist Leidy Churchman's small paintings of an ambulance, a sky-blue rectangle against a gray one and a devil hang in colored frames on... More >>

• Robbery in three takes

  published May 30, 2013

  As soon as you walk through the door at Redling Fine Art, you are standing inches from one of Dash Manley's paintings. All the paintings in his... More >>

• Rainbow colors out of whack

  published June 20, 2013

  Nine longish, rectangular strips of subdued color painted on a large sheet of paper lean to the right in Molly Larkey's Amplify, while... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Gary Cooper's Architect and July 4 Karaoke

  published Jul 03, 2013

  This week, there are exquisitely intricate, hippie paintings in Culver City and Independence Day performance art in East L.A. 5. Barbecue with Betsy Ross wannabe Every year, a steep backyard in Alh... More >>

• Cough syrup graffiti

  published May 23, 2013

  DJ Screws, who spearheaded the "Chopped and Screwed" hip-hop genre where tracks were slowed way down and beats skipped, died in 2000 of a cough... More >>

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  Norman Rockwell's Boy Scouts, Updated

  published July 4, 2013

  After the Boy Scouts of America's national council voted to lift its ban on gay scouts under 18 — anyone gay and over 18 can, awkwardly,... More >>

• Fake countertops don't have to stay in the kitchen

  published May 9, 2013

  Few materials are weirder and tackier than kitchen laminate, the kind you put on countertops to give them that faux-something look. London-based... More >>

• Barefoot at the Louvre

  published May 9, 2013

  Photographer Nan Goldin, who studied at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts school and then migrated to New York, living in and photographing the gritty... More >>

• Spooky structures

  published June 6, 2013

  The androgynous, ghostlike figures in Richard Hawkins' new "Night Gallery" and "Rainbow Room" painting series at Richard Telles Fine Art stare out... More >>

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  Downtown Exhibit Looks at Money in the Art World, From Kickstarter to Michael Ovitz

  published June 27, 2013

  "Perhaps it was artistic inspiration or just sheer stupidity," artist Adam Mason writes of the time in 2009 when a small stone somehow got... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Ultrasound Gel to a Double-Decker Bus

  published Jun 26, 2013

  This week, the soul of Whitney Houston leads a bus tour and an artist turns a garish movie poster into an eerie abstraction. 5. Thirty-one summer nights Post, the downtown space artist run by HK Zama... More >>