Catherine Wagley

This week, flags figure prominently in two L.A. shows, as summer group exhibitions give artists a chance to grapple with power and patriotism. Shirtless Tony Curtis “I want to cum in your heart,” reads the white text on John Giorno’s rainbow-colored painting.The 80-year-old artist has a way of giving his......

This week, flags figure prominently in two L.A. shows, as summer group exhibitions give artists a chance to grapple with power and patriotism. Shirtless Tony Curtis “I want to cum in your heart,” reads the white text on John Giorno’s rainbow-colored painting.The 80-year-old artist has a way of giving his......

This week, a performance artist places sand on a pole while talking about meaninglessness, and men become one with an oven in a Culver City show. A grandstanding man and a couple of slugs Two brown, globular figures that look like either slugs or intestines traverse a vague, pastel-colored landscape......

This week, a performance artist places sand on a pole while talking about meaninglessness, and men become one with an oven in a Culver City show. A grandstanding man and a couple of slugs Two brown, globular figures that look like either slugs or intestines traverse a vague, pastel-colored landscape......

This week, an artist invites people to reach into the styrofoam box over her breasts and another artist and his friends dress up as a living car wash. Candy-colored plastics and a living car wash A group of people in strange costumes mill around a parking lot, and you don’t......

This week, an artist invites people to reach into the styrofoam box over her breasts and another artist and his friends dress up as a living car wash. Candy-colored plastics and a living car wash A group of people in strange costumes mill around a parking lot, and you don’t......

This week, an artist documents her hair loss, and a ceramic snake curls up on a gallery wall. The ladies look the same A spiderweb with a broken umbrella at its center fills the billboard-sized dropcloth on which Christine Wang painted Speak Truth to Power, on view in Night Gallery's......

This week, an artist documents her hair loss, and a ceramic snake curls up on a gallery wall. The ladies look the same A spiderweb with a broken umbrella at its center fills the billboard-sized dropcloth on which Christine Wang painted Speak Truth to Power, on view in Night Gallery's......

This week, two artists ask for help making their sculptures and two others make video art meant to play on cracked phone screens. Tell-all tablecloths Mary Ellen Carroll’s history paintings are loose, rough and done on linen tablecloths. Madame Nhu, the former first lady of South Vietnam, dabs her eyes......

This week, two artists ask for help making their sculptures and two others make video art meant to play on cracked phone screens. Tell-all tablecloths Mary Ellen Carroll’s history paintings are loose, rough and done on linen tablecloths. Madame Nhu, the former first lady of South Vietnam, dabs her eyes......