L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A weekly column by Catherine Wagley Most good artists moonlight as social historians at least some of the time. Often, they’re as bad at it as real-deal historians  are (just think what sort of voluptuously erroneous textbook Gauguin would’ve written on the Polynesians, or what might have happened if Damien Hirst gem-encrusted skull had launched a scholarly inquest[…..]