Email Author Shana Nys Dambrot

2011 Stories by Shana Nys Dambrot

• A Black-and-White Red Carpet Riot

  published December 8, 2011

  In about 1947, the New York–based photographer known as Weegee, famous for evocative crime scene images, moved to L.A. Perhaps in the... More >>

• A Civics Lesson for the Arts

  published December 8, 2011

  If Pacific Standard Time is about celebrating the giants and rediscovering the lesser-known figures who made L.A. culture the lively, polyglot... More >>

• The Birds and the Beasts

  published December 22, 2011

  Two concurrent exhibitions, "Lisa Adams: Paradise Notwithstanding" and "Osvaldo Trujillo: Someplace Else," are powerful solo shows on their own,... More >>

• The Art of a Complex Military Industry

  published December 29, 2011

  Simultaneously using photography to document societal change while questioning the limits of veracity in the documentary stance itself is a neat... More >>

• 24 Hours Way Off Broadway

  published December 29, 2011

  New Year's Eve is a terrific time to try out crazy ideas. There's an higher likelihood than usual that your audience is in a good mood and/or... More >>

• The Brothers of Gardenly Delight

  published December 22, 2011

  Brothers Ryan and Trevor Oakes are wrapping up a nearly three-week residency at the Getty Center, finishing work on one of the large and... More >>

• Hotel Art in L.A.: A User's Guide

  published December 29, 2011

  The days of gilt-framed faux-impressionism punctuating hotel walls are over. Or it certainly seems that way, as just about every trendy... More >>

• Sex, Lies and Deep-Sea Surfing

  published September 22, 2011

  Regen Projects' new Sue Williams exhibition is a survey of her work from 1990 through the present day, covering the evolution of her influential... More >>

• The Young Woman and the Sea

  published November 10, 2011

  They say that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is a sign of insanity, but many artists have created powerful... More >>

• One for the Books

  published December 15, 2011

  Art and books have always gone well together. Objects of desire for collectors and all manner of creative and curious-minded; sparks of... More >>

• Agit Popaganda

  published November 17, 2011

  Ron English's Seasons In Supurbia, opening this week at Corey Helford Gallery, caps off a weeks-long stay in L.A. for this undisputed... More >>

• Hoarders: Art Gallery Edition

  published December 1, 2011

  There comes a time in every artist's life when they look around their studio, home, parents' garage, or over-priced and inconvenient storage unit,... More >>

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  Marcus Coates' Journey to the Lower World at Pitzer College Art Galleries: Can Deer Antlers Solve America's Housing Problemr

  published Dec 09, 2011

  The two-channel video work Journey to the Lower World by British artist Marcus Coates is a high point in an exceptionally engaging exhibition closing today at Pitzer College Art Galleries in Claremon... More >>

• Choose Your Own Adventure

  published November 24, 2011

  Multifaceted artist Miranda July is driven by an elusive but insistent suspicion that everything is connected, and that her job is to map the ties... More >>

• Modern Fashionistas of the 16th Century

  published September 22, 2011

  Known for her gently surreal portraits based on high-fashion photography, in her first solo exhibition, Stephanie Pryor: Domina, the young... More >>

• Ron English's 'Seasons In Supurbia' at Corey Helford: Artist's Perverted Spoofing of Disney, G.I. Joe and Charlie Brown

  published Nov 21, 2011

  The celebrated billboard satirist and painter Ron English lives on the East Coast, and so most of his outdoor work takes place there. But he regularly provides downloadable paste-ups on his blog, and... More >>

• I Can't Believe They Pay Me For This Shit

  published November 10, 2011

  Depending on your point of view, Making Sh*t Up — the new documentary film on young, contemporary artist Bert Rodriguez by filmmakers... More >>

• Dispatches From the So Wrong It's Right Dept.

  published September 8, 2011

  A pair of New York-based but increasingly L.A.-present enfants terribles come together to melt your brain, as Neck Face and Fuck This Life: 2... More >>

• David Tutera's 'My Fair Wedding' Be Damned: Bettina Hubby's 'Get Hubbied' Project Will Transform Your Wedding Into Performance Art

  published Oct 14, 2011

  In a way, every wedding is a multimedia theatrical production. Each detail is managed, choreographed, and rehearsed; from rings, to cakes, seating charts, music, vows, catering, decoration, and, of c... More >>

• Best Chicago in Pomona

  published September 22, 2011

  A highlight of the ambitious Pacific Standard Time programming at Pomona College Museum of Art, Judy Chicago: A Conversation With Her Younger... More >>

• Urban Art in Paradise

  published September 22, 2011

  Amid the potentially overwhelming cluster-fest of this weekend's converging contemporary art fairs and historical surveys, "Beyond Eden" —... More >>

• Art Platform, Pulse and Other Art Fairs Take Over the City. What Did L.A. Thinkr

  published Oct 06, 2011

  If art in L.A. is important to you, then this past weekend was a doozy. The proliferation of gallery and museum exhibitions associated with the mammoth Pacific Standard Time project, which opened to ... More >>

• Steve Turner Contemporary's Artist Studio Map Shows Where Artists Work in L.A.

  published Oct 04, 2011

  Talk about a crazy idea. On this mother of all art weekends in LA, with multiple art fairs and a frenzy of Pacific Standard Time bashes, the good folks at Steve Turner Contemporary added to the fray... More >>

• People in Glass Houses Throw Salons

  published September 8, 2011

  Even among the proliferation of architecturally significant private homes that populate the hillsides and cul-de-sacs of greater Los Angeles, and... More >>

• Dude, Where's My Art?

  published August 11, 2011

  Parking lots are transitional zones — full of vehicles, perhaps, but archetypal as open, empty spaces with an infinite number of possible... More >>