Email Author Shana Nys Dambrot

2013 Stories by Shana Nys Dambrot

• Bravo, New World!

  published May 9, 2013

  Thanks to the mainstreaming of street art, it's easy to lose sight of the earlier generation of global pioneers who laid the movement's... More >>

• Bookshelf, Meet Trunk Sale

  published June 6, 2013

  The D.A.P. Booth is a perennial art-fair highlight, its giant neon ampersand beckoning enthusiasts of palatine culture books to the... More >>

• Tour de Frogtown

  published May 30, 2013

  It's time for another edition of de LaB's annual Design-n-Dim Sum Bike Ride -- a full day of art and architecture studio visits, fixed gears and... More >>

• The Song of Solomon

  published May 16, 2013

  Google Phil Solomon and you'll get "American experimental filmmaker." Not really helpful. So how about this? Solomon works inside a recognizable... More >>

• Your Closet Is a Protest Zone

  published April 25, 2013

  When you're watching news reports about protests and demonstrations around the world, you probably don't focus on what the activists are wearing... More >>

• 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 >>