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2013 Stories by Shana Nys Dambrot

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  • Forget Brunch

    published May 9, 2013

    If your mom is more into writers and bars than flowers and omelettes, then we have the perfect Mother's Day idea for you. (Of course, if you have... More >>

  • Tuesday Is the New Thursday

    published March 14, 2013

    A fresh round of gallery exhibitions has opened at the Pacific Design Center's Blue Building, including a solo exhibition by current Palm Springs... More >>

  • The Force Is Strong With This One

    published May 2, 2013

    If you've never spent the night on a sidewalk in a Wookie costume waiting for the box office to open for the newest Star Wars installment,... More >>

  • Je Suis un Camera

    published April 25, 2013

    Since 1996, Paris Photo has been the gold standard of international fine art photography fairs. A social and cultural destination more akin to... More >>

  • Three Men and a Giant Robot

    published April 4, 2013

    Giant Robot's GR2 Gallery is a beloved staple of avant-garde cartoon culture in L.A., combining art, publications and events into a sort of vortex... More >>

  • Farenheit 420

    published April 18, 2013

    Tonight's soiree is sort of like any other festival after-party -- except it starts at dinnertime and the VIP list is all … writers. A... More >>

  • A Different Kind of Fantasy League

    published April 4, 2013

    For many people, knowing what Dungeons & Dragons is and finally getting on board with Game of Thrones is about as deep into the realm of... More >>

  • This Is Not My Beautiful House

    published April 11, 2013

    For Your Art, a space inside a gallery across from LACMA, continues to present eclectic pop-up projects, including the current interdisciplinary... More >>

  • See What Develops

    published April 11, 2013

    If it's April, it's the Month of Photography Los Angeles. MOPLA has fast become a highlight of the annual art calendar, combining the... More >>

  • Home Is What the Art Is

    published March 21, 2013

    Even by the blenderized standards of today's genre-busting, non-traditional art world, an exhibition promising "movement, music, knitting, books,... More >>

  • Lonesome Dovetail

    published February 14, 2013

    Richard Prince is one of the most talked-about and headline-grabbing artists working today, but it's not always a lovefest out there. His... More >>

  • Art by Everyone for Everyone

    published February 28, 2013

    The folks at La Luz de Jesus have been putting on this juried group show annually for 27 years now. It has gone through themes ranging from Dia de... More >>

  • Blood on the Water

    published March 28, 2013

    The sun is about to set, throwing the impossibly picturesque canals of Venice into dusky relief, lighting up the waters and sending the last lazy... More >>

  • This Charming Man

    published March 21, 2013

    Lie Down I Think I Love You is U.K. artist Charming Baker's first solo show in L.A. in a few years -- a lamentable absence indeed,... More >>

  • Faster Pussycat! Squeeze! Squeeze!

    published March 21, 2013

    It's been a while now since a new generation of alt-folk and nouveau-cabaret musicians rescued the accordion from the polka dustbin. But perhaps... More >>

  • Orchestral Maneuvers in the Park

    published March 7, 2013

    Dr. Bernie Krause is an acclaimed musician and influential naturalist -- think Pete Seeger meets David Attenborough, in a field, with a tape deck.... More >>

  • Cinema, Crime and Conceptual Art

    published January 10, 2013

    Despite today's hyper-hybridized cultural landscape, in which categories of sensory experience ceaselessly interchange and interlock like Legos,... More >>

  • Reading Can Be Grand

    published February 28, 2013

    Downtown L.A.'s relatively new green space at Grand Park has a slogan, "the park for everyone," which seems fitting to cover events from farmers... More >>

  • Pretty Fables of Doom and Destruction

    published January 31, 2013

    Tonight the galleries of La Brea's historic Art 170 Building, Launch LA and Merry Karnowsky Gallery -- whose owners happen to be married to each... More >>

  • Derby Girls Save the World

    published February 21, 2013

    When you think of the hot and sweaty smashfest action show that is the Angel City Derby Girls, a benefit art auction probably isn't the first... More >>

  • Contain Yourself

    published January 3, 2013

    Sometimes there's a fine line between high-brow conceptual and mind-pretzel punster, and Marc Fichou straddles it. One of the first artists in the... More >>

  • A Threeway With Mother Earth

    published February 14, 2013

    Artists Annie Sprinkle and Elizabeth Stephens just can't stop getting married. They've married the planet, the sky, the ocean and the moon —... More >>

  • Move-In Special

    published February 7, 2013

    The 5790projects pop-up curatorial team (a.k.a. the directorial staff of Mark Moore Gallery) produces about four exhibitions a year in various... More >>

  • L.A. Art Show

    published January 17, 2013

    Perennially famous for its opening-night shindigs, but sometimes struggling over the past 18 years to achieve the cutting edge in its exhibited... More >>

  • ALAC With a French Twist

    published January 24, 2013

    One of the best things about the Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) fair, now in its fourth year, is the balance the organizers strike between a... More >>

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