Email Author Shana Nys Dambrot

2011 Stories by Shana Nys Dambrot

• Say "Cheese" (for a Really Long Time)

  published August 25, 2011

  The vivacious exhibition "Ray Turner: Population," currently at the Long Beach Museum of Art, is soon to travel all over the country for at least... More >>

• Games People Played

  published August 18, 2011

  SUPER iam8bit is more than the name of the fifth edition of a popular indie-art extravaganza, it's a celebration of our culture's... More >>

• Flag Stop Art Fair: South Bay Lexus Dealership Becomes an Art Gallery

  published Sep 12, 2011

  The Flag Stop art fair at South Bay Lexus in Torrance over Labor Day weekend wasn't billed as an art fair, but instead as an "alternative art experience." In truth, it was both, with elements ranging... More >>

• Maybe They'll Be More Cautious Since Someone "Borrowed" a Rembrandt

  published August 25, 2011

  When it comes to supporting modern and contemporary photography, it's hard to think of more enthusiastic and effective boosters than the... More >>

• Not the Beach Boys

  published August 25, 2011

  Contemporary culture's obsession with street art and the rise of lowbrow, pop surrealism or whatever else the broader postcomic, anticanon... More >>

• Go Fish Yourself!

  published August 4, 2011

  We live in a world where the deft combination of single images and pithy captions is a dominant method of personal expression (see: Twitter,... More >>

• I'm Every Woman

  published July 21, 2011

  The best thematic group shows explore not what the disparate artists under their given rubrics might share, but rather how their differences move... More >>

• Cuba at the Getty! Cuba at Track 16! Cuba at Kopeikin! What's With All These Cuba Exhibitsr

  published Jul 13, 2011

  The Getty Center, Track 16, and Kopeikin Gallery are all presenting concurrent exhibitions taking on the same subject -- Cuba. Cuba in all its pre-Revolutionary vibrancy and subsequent Soviet-era aus... More >>

• By George

  published July 7, 2011

  George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown) is exactly the kind of show MOCA should be doing — a well-deserved, independently... More >>

• Be There Then

  published June 23, 2011

  The new group show Post 9-11 at OHWOW's Los Angeles location (the first two are in NYC and Miami) takes on a fractured legacy that is also,... More >>

• Street Art's Five-Year Plan

  published June 30, 2011

  Street Art's Five-Year Plan This week Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery turns 5, and throws itself a party. Most of the nearly 60 artists in... More >>

• Otis College in Ruins

  published June 23, 2011

  Fred Fisher is a legendary architect (literally and figuratively) of L.A. modernism who has throughout his career in steel, glass, and concrete... More >>

• Crochet Me a Reefer

  published June 16, 2011

  There's hyperbole and there's hyperbolic — the former is a term of language meaning deliberate exaggeration in service of urgent... More >>

• Everything I Say Is a Lie

  published June 9, 2011

  In conjunction with Morono Kiang Gallery's current show, Our Writers Group presents It's All True — a collection of very new writing... More >>

• Time Plays Itself

  published June 2, 2011

  After a celebrated, exhausting, exhilarating, and well-attended all-night screening of Christian Marclay's The Clock, this epic video work,... More >>

• The Art World Party Line Blows Up

  published May 26, 2011

  A pair of shows, one in Inglewood and the other in Torrance, between them drag more than 120 contemporary artists into marathon games of... More >>

• Max Maslansky, Web Diver: Turning Strangers' Online Photos into Paintings

  published May 25, 2011

  You might have heard of crate-diving -- it's the far-ranging, patiently obsessive search for dusty, overlooked musical gems and obscure bits of vinyl genius to sample in one's own turntablism or st... More >>

• Wherever You Go, There You Are

  published May 19, 2011

  To the list of adjectives describing the work of New York-based artist Ryan McGinness — obsessive, sumptuous, sexy, witty, bright, fierce,... More >>

• Andrew Rogers, Land Artist: Now Playing on a Continent Near You

  published May 13, 2011

  Australian artist Andrew Rogers has spent the last 13 years bouncing between 13 countries on all seven continents, working with over 6,700 people in all, creating sculptures in deserts, glaciers, go... More >>

• Facing the Past, Artfully

  published May 12, 2011

  Known to the L.A. art world from his tenures heading the Watts Towers and later Department of Cultural Affairs programs, way before that, Mark... More >>

• Masters of Pop, Pulp and Pots

  published May 5, 2011

  It's a cavalcade of darkness and whimsy at Hollywood and Vermont, as Peter Shire: Hokkaido Story Revisited: Late Spring and... More >>

• Art Appreciation 101

  published April 28, 2011

  If you sat down to make a list of the contemporary artists living and working in L.A. whose names you know, whose work you have seen and possibly... More >>

• Paris: Life & Luxury at the Getty Center: Vibe la Revolution!

  published Apr 26, 2011

  Monday night's opening party for the Getty Center's opulent new exhibition, Paris: Life & Luxury, was a well-heeled and extremely civilized affair. The solid gold, satin-embroidered, lavishly embelli... More >>

• Don't Panic at the Disco

  published April 21, 2011

  SCI-Arc is one of the most interesting architecture schools in the world, and not just because of its supremely unique digs in a narrow,... More >>

• Diane Arbus Proves That All the Freaky People (Still) Make the Beauty of the World

  published Apr 20, 2011

  "Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities" opened last night at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, and, whether due to the allure of several photographs that had never been exhibited before, or si... More >>