Catherine Wagley
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Virginia Dwan, influential L.A. gallerist and risk-taking arts patron, dies
Pioneering art collector and gallery owner Virginia Dwan dies at age 90. → Read More
L.A. artist Carole Caroompas, performer and painter who bucked convention, dies at 76
Artist Carole Caroompas, who died over the weekend, believed that artists are 'supposed to assault the senses or change the world.' → Read More
Goodbye, magazines. Hello, artworks. How one newsstand has been reborn as a sidewalk gallery
Stefan Simchowitz, the controversial art dealer and promoter, has converted the newsstand outside Kings Road Cafe into a streetside art gallery. → Read More
Best Art Shows in L.A. This Week Nov. 29 Through Dec. 5
This week, a heavily armed father reaches for his albino baby and an army of Lenin busts finds a new home. → Read More
Best Free Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week: Gilbert “Magu” Lujan, Lynda Benglis
This week, an artist builds an Italian fruit stand that's as detailed and eccentric as the real thing, and a tiger embraces a horse in a painting hanging in Hollywood. Ten-person hug In 1986, when LACMA bought local collector Proctor Stafford’s 235 ancient West Mexican objects, it was a coup. William... → Read More
Best Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week Nov. 15 Through Nov. 21
A model wears a stool on her head and a carpet on her leg in Boyle Heights, while an artist sets fire to her handiwork in Pomona. → Read More
Best Art Shows in L.A. This Week Nov. 8 Through Nov. 14
This week a wall looks like it's falling in a downtown gallery and brothers with large stuffed snakes protruding from their pants roll around on a steeply slanted floor in Echo Park. Leaking boots On the floor at Smart Objects, there’s currently an undulating, uneven pattern of black and white... → Read More
Best Art Shows in L.A. Nov. 1 Through Nov. 6
This week, a performer loses at solitaire again and again, and an artist stands stoically by as bulldozers dig graves. → Read More
RIP Christopher Doran, aka Click Mort, the L.A. Artist Who "Recapitated" Porcelain Figurines
Artist Christopher Doran, aka Click Mort, used to leave oddly shaped, altered toys on the shelves of stores in Los Feliz. “Nobody knew what the heck was going on,” says Margaret Wynn, Doran’s longtime friend. He worked for Gentle Giant toys back when he did this with the help of... → Read More
5 Free Art Shows to See in L.A. This Week
This week, a machines drips metaphorical money in Hollywood and skeletons guard a white house built into a Silver Lake gallery. → Read More
Best Free Art Shows in L.A. Oct. 11 Through Oct. 17
This week, oversized cyborg legs occupy a Mid-City exhibition and a longtime L.A. artist obsesses over the moon. → Read More
Collector Chara Schreyer: An eye for art enlivens the L.A. community
“When you’re an art collector, you need to cannibalize walls,” says Chara Schreyer. → Read More
Collector Chara Schreyer: An eye for art enlivens the L.A. community
“When you’re an art collector, you need to cannibalize walls,” says Chara Schreyer. → Read More
Best Art Shows to See This Week Sept. 27 Through Oct. 3
This week, an artists gives tiny sculptures away in West Adams and a late 19th century epic about a murdered prostitute gets a contemporary reboot. → Read More
Free Art Shows to See This Week Sept. 20 Through Sept. 26
This week, pigs take a beating in a downtown show and two artists use a video game to explore daddy issues. → Read More
Best Art Shows to See This Week PST: LA/LA Edition
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA rolls into town this week with a monumental scroll by an artist who was probably misdiagnoses as schizophrenic and a seven-hour protest performance downtown. Magic and a car crash Carlos Almaraz makes Echo Park look like a magic kingdom in his 1980s paintings of the lake,... → Read More
Four Latinx Artists on Inspiration, Creation and Identity, in Their Own Words
Artists Frank Romero, Laura Aguilar, Shizu Saldamando and Kukuli Velarde discuss their work and their ideas. → Read More
At the Artists' Loft Museum, Longtime Arts District Residents Are Refusing to Be Pushed Out
“Please don’t let the Arts District become unlivable for actual artists,” Michael Parker pleaded on August 10, addressing the City Planning Commission and the developers behind the Camden Project, a mixed-use development slated to go up on Industrial Street downtown. Just 5 percent of the complex's residential units are required... → Read More
Free Art Shows to See in L.A. Sept. 6 Through Sept. 12
This week, an artist walks on eggs, blindfolded performers have a big show and two heads lie on a coffee table in a Hollywood apartment. → Read More
Best Art Shows to See in L.A. August 30 Through September 5
This week, a veteran L.A. artist screens his abject filmic take on a children's novel and a longtime New York artist puts wildlife specimens on a flatbed scanner. Chairs on walls The question address in “The Useful and the Decorative,” the current show at the Landing, is simple enough and... → Read More