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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.

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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Artnet News, Reviews• November 7, 2017

“Pacific Standard Time” Writes Overlooked Chicano Artists Back Into Art History

By Catherine G. Wagley

On a Monday morning in May 2015, artist David Avalos stood on the stage of a packed auditorium at the Getty Center in Los…

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Features• September 20, 2017

Spoiled Roots: Mark Bradford and the Erasure of Community

By Catherine G. Wagley

Artists tasked with filling the US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale have often poked at its resemblance to Monticello, the plantation designed by the…

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Features, Reviews• May 5, 2017

Gallerist Virginia Dwan, the Reluctant Legend

By Catherine G. Wagley

“Any ideas of art history or significance were forgotten,” wrote gallerist Virginia Dwan in 1990, remembering the first time she saw one of Yves…

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Reviews• December 8, 2016

Isa Genzken Plays with the Artworld’s Insides in “I Love Michael Asher”

By Catherine G. Wagley

“And why is this dedicated to Michael Jackson?” journalist Randy Kennedy asked Isa Genzken last February as both sat on a stage at the…

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Features• December 8, 2015

Friends Among Us: Reflections on the Value and Risk of Nepotism in Art

By Catherine G. Wagley

Corazon del Sol had just arrived in Lisbon, to an apartment she left in the early 2010s, not long after losing someone close. She…

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Reviews• October 26, 2015

Helen Molesworth Upends the Permanent Hang at MOCA LA

By Catherine G. Wagley

Ruth Asawa spent the summer of 1948 making buttermilk for her teachers, Josef and Anni Albers, in Asheville, North Carolina. She was enrolled at…

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