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Catherine G. Wagley

Catherine Wagley is an art critic and journalist based in Los Angeles. She is a contributing editor at Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA) and a contributing and associate editor for Momus. She served as an art critic for the LA Weekly from 2011-2017, and contributes to artnet News, ARTNews, the LA Times and The LAnd, among other publications. She is a 2019 recipient of the Rabkin Prize for visual art journalism.

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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Features• August 10, 2018

What to Do About Klaus: How Arts Communities Assert Their Agency

By Catherine G. Wagley

As first impressions go, it wasn’t ideal. On the week he was announced as MOCA Los Angeles’s new director, Klaus Biesenbach managed to alienate…

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Features, Reviews• April 30, 2018

Think of Harald’s Position: Weighing Szeemann’s Obsessions in L.A.

By Catherine G. Wagley

Harald Szeemann organized a show called Friends and Their Friends in 1969, his last year as chief curator at the Kunsthalle Bern. Selected artists…

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Reviews• November 23, 2017

Everybody Knows: Prada Foundation’s Stylish Cynicism

By Catherine G. Wagley

The last time Leonard Cohen appeared on her radio show in 2006, Fresh Air host Terry Gross told him she wanted to play “one…

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