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Sensitive to Art & its Discontents

Catherine G. Wagley

Catherine G. Wagley writes about art in Los Angeles. She is a contributing editor at Momus and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla), and she has written criticism and journalism for the Los Angeles Times, X-TRA and Los Angeles Magazine, among other publications.

Posted inArt

A Closer Look at Deutsche Bank, Frieze Art Fair’s Biggest Sponsor

by Catherine G. Wagley February 13, 2020February 13, 2020

Deutsche Bank, notorious for Trump ties, is under increased scrutiny after federal investigations into potential money-laundering lapses. But its art world involvement is mostly relegated to footnotes or brief mentions.

Posted inArt

Organizations Outside the Art World Are Better at Reaching Underserved Populations

by Catherine G. Wagley December 16, 2019December 17, 2019

Deferring to activists and public servants who have already effectively reached diverse populations may be among the most expedient ways to increase art’s accessibility.

Posted inArt

What It Means to Talk About the Food Deserts of LA

by Catherine G. Wagley October 30, 2019

Projects in the Current:LA Food triennial point to the fact that the city funding the event has often contributed to food injustice through its unequal distribution of resources.

Posted inArt

Artist-Led Community Meals Mostly Reject the Stuffiness of Art Dinners

by Catherine G. Wagley October 30, 2019October 30, 2019

Los Angeles’s city-funded triennial, Current:LA Food, has been hosting community meals that are open to the public throughout the city, though the events are still dominated by art world figures.

Posted inArt

In LA, Artists Serve Up a Diverse Take on Food Culture

by Catherine G. Wagley September 18, 2019September 27, 2019

Offal, a show named after innards, ought to have some messy moments and blunt edges, and it luckily does.

Posted inArt

The Every Woman Biennial Defies Critical Evaluation

by Catherine G. Wagley June 11, 2019June 11, 2019

The salon-style biennial, featuring over 600 women and non-binary artists, is neither hierarchical nor overly precious.

Posted inArt

CalArts Students Collaborate with Cooper Union Alumni in Their Fight Against Rising Tuition

by Catherine G. Wagley May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

After CalArts announced a tuition hike in March, students have been participating in a much bigger conversation around the transparency and values of arts institutions.

Posted inArt

Hyperallergic’s Favorite Items from the LA Art Book Fair

Avatar photoAvatar photoAvatar photo by Abe Ahn, Elisa Wouk Almino, Catherine G. Wagley and Dan Schindel April 12, 2019November 4, 2019

A team of Hyperallergic contributors scoured the fair’s vast and truly delightful offerings and picked some of their favorite items to share with you.

Posted inArt

The Desert X Biennial in the California Desert Appears to Ignore Its Surroundings

by Catherine G. Wagley April 8, 2019April 10, 2019

For a site-specific art exhibition that claims to be about attention to the environment, Desert X 2019 seems surprisingly insensitive to context.

Posted inArt

A Goodbye to LA MOCA at the Pacific Design Center

by Catherine G. Wagley March 13, 2019March 13, 2019

MOCA PDC, which closed this month, deserves parting attention, largely because its evolutions, successes, and sometimes confounding programming often reflected city-wide cultural identity crises.

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Frieze Is Selling a Fantasy of Los Angeles

by Catherine G. Wagley February 15, 2019February 18, 2019

All the LA-centric promotion of Frieze has bled into the fair, and flattened everything into commodity.

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