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Catherine G. Wagley

Catherine G. Wagley is a critic and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is also Managing Editor at Momus.

Carla, Features, Reviews• May 24, 2024

REDCAT’s Rediscovery of the Iconic Feminist Art Program

By Catherine G. Wagley

The Feminist Art Program (1970–1975): Cycles of Collectivity, which recently closed at REDCAT (an art center run by CalArts), could easily have been called Cycles…

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Features• January 31, 2023

All Positions Possible: Simone Forti Across Time, Through Community

By Catherine G. Wagley

An eight-foot wooden ramp was propped up at a forty-five-degree angle in one corner. Knotted ropes hung from six holes drilled near the ramp’s…

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Features• October 26, 2022

On the Fear “That There Wouldn’t be Another Project”: A Conversation with Lisa Hsiao Chen

By Catherine G. Wagley

As soon as I heard about Lisa Hsiao Chen’s novel Activities of Daily Living, I wanted something from it. I had been searching Publishers…

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Features, Reviews• February 11, 2021

Stuck in the Same Muck: Journeying Through Asher Hartman’s Psychic Theater

By Catherine G. Wagley

God seduced Jesus on a Circuit City breakroom table. The seduction began as we, the audience, sat circled in child-sized chairs in a too-bright…

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Features• October 30, 2020

The Untenability of the Unethical Museum

By Catherine G. Wagley

The last time I visited a museum was in early March, when I saw artist Tishan Hsu’s survey at Hammer Museum in Los Angeles….

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Features• March 13, 2020

The Spaces Where We Live: Gentrification, Insecurity, and Experimental Living in LA

By Catherine G. Wagley

Four men came to our house because they were interested in architecture. They knew someone who knew our landlord, which is how they got…

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Features• September 3, 2019

Learning as Supporting: Alternatives for Futures in Art Education

By Catherine G. Wagley

Artist Eliza Swann moved to Los Angeles in 2013, after the spirit of a raven told her, head west. Swann had been in the…

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Features• April 1, 2019

“But Can a Spirit Burn?”: Alternatives for Art Under Capital

By Catherine G. Wagley

We were reprimanded before the meeting even began. The guard, a tough looking woman employed at the Lisbon Tropical Botanical Garden, told us that…

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Reviews• March 15, 2019

The Architecture of Exclusion: Storytelling Hannah Hoffman’s New Home Through Paul Williams and Tony Cokes

By Catherine G. Wagley

Architect Paul Williams used to sketch out plans, virtuosically, upside down. He became famous for this skill – most writing about him mentions it….

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Features, Reviews• December 7, 2018

The Bold Refusal of lauren woods’s “American Monument”

By Catherine G. Wagley

There is a room for reflection with plush fuchsia carpeting outside of American Monument, an exhibition by lauren woods (she always uses lower-case letters)…

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