Email Author Catherine Wagley

2013 Stories by Catherine Wagley

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  FEATURED STORY

  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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  FEATURED STORY

  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 >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Cowboys to Art Sleuths

  published Feb 27, 2013

  See also: *L.A. Art History Lessons on Twitter, in Emoji Form *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, an array of icons -- cowboys, the president, an unforgettable ... More >>

• Werewolf on the Harbor Freeway

  published January 24, 2013

  As a kid, Mario Ybarra Jr. got good at "turning into a werewolf" the way Michael Jackson does in Thriller, throbbing, staggering and... More >>

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  Schindler House Transforms Into a Visitors Center for an Exhibit About How We Travel

  published February 21, 2013

  Right now at Kings Road House in West Hollywood, there are three copies of one book: one tucked beside a fireplace, another on an otherwise... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, From Battling Curators to Banana Splits

  published Feb 20, 2013

  See also: *Everything You Need to Know About the France-Los Angeles Art Mashup Taking Place Right Now *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, there's a game show-sty... More >>

• Balloons like death

  published January 3, 2013

  Stephen Colbert introduced Jeff Koons as "the world's most expensive birthday clown" when the artist appeared on The Colbert Report in... More >>

• Glittery guard

  published January 24, 2013

  Artist Samara Golden's tin-foil and tissue-paper cat, called Gate Keeper, stands guard at the entrance to "The New Now," a seven-person... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Bikers Around a Bonfire

  published Feb 13, 2013

  See also: *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying *Our Calendar Section, Listing More Great Things to Do in L.A. This week, a new gallery debuts on Melrose, a film by and about a lover of life scree... More >>

• Underground spying

  published January 10, 2013

  Artist Richard Kraft took a video camera into London's Underground and filmed covertly. When he watched his own footage, he paused it on certain... More >>

• Burned

  published January 17, 2013

  A Burn Club that meets in Culver City has a logo made to resemble the pink bar of soap that says "Fight Club" in the movie starring Brad Pitt and... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Snowfall in Chinatown

  published Feb 06, 2013

  See also: *10 L.A. Art Spaces That Change Our Idea of What an Art Space Is *Best L.A. Novel Ever: The Tournament *10 Best L.A. Art Galleries For Partying This week, a Eurasian collective tells uncann... More >>

• Cool cars

  published January 10, 2013

  In 1974, a few years before Bruce Springsteen released a song by the same name, three artists buried 10 junked Cadillacs nose-first in the dirt... More >>

• Everything You Need to Know About the France-Los Angeles Art Mashup Taking Place Right Now

  published Jan 30, 2013

  Last week, New York-based, French artist Davide Balula picked the lock of Hammer curatorial associate Elizabeth Cline's house while a small crowd stood by. Paris-based artist Michel Blazy, or his pr... More >>

• Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Bathroom Sink

  published Jan 30, 2013

  This week, a sculptor continues his decades-long reimagining of household fixtures, an art book fair debuts and the spirit of L.A. is summoned. 5. Mystery tour When artist Amanda Yates, who co-foun... More >>