Email Author Shana Nys Dambrot

2012 Stories by Shana Nys Dambrot

• Brandi Milne

  published August 9, 2012

  "Before I Hide Away" is painter Brandi Milner's third solo show with high-brow/low-brow art emporium Corey Helford Gallery, and it's a weird one... More >>

• Feelin' Druid

  published August 30, 2012

  If you're going to have a Druid film festival, you might as well have it where a corn field used to be — you know, in case of crop circles.... More >>

• Is There Such a Thing as a New (and Real) da Vincir

  published Aug 31, 2012

  On Monday night a fine-feathered crowd assembled in Beverly Hills at the historic Greystone Mansion. Once the home of the patrician Doheny family, the manicured grounds and grand architecture (speci... More >>

• Art For Thumb's Sake

  published August 16, 2012

  While some may lament the relentless onslaught of images produced in the global photostream that has resulted from the unholy alliance of... More >>

• It Takes a Village (to Pay for Art School)

  published August 23, 2012

  It's nice to see working artists and gallery folk taking an interest in the well-being of the next generation. Against the Grain, a one-night... More >>

• Art Students Blow Up the Blue Whale

  published July 26, 2012

  Southern California is a pretty great place to live, an even better place to go to college, and quite possibly the best place in the world to go... More >>

• Nin Com Poop

  published August 16, 2012

  Barbara Kraft takes on the legacy of one of the 20th century's most enduringly beloved and controversial literary figures in her memoir Anais... More >>

• Bedazzle This!

  published April 12, 2012

  There is a certain operatic, archetypal quality to the process Mickalene Thomas uses to create her art work. Her inspiration draws on images of... More >>

• Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles: In a Lonely Place

  published August 9, 2012

  It's safe to say the guides from the Esotouric bus and walking adventures are obsessed with the past, offering their insights into the once-grand,... More >>

• Michelle Carla Handel and Eve Wood

  published August 2, 2012

  "Your Mouth Undone" presents the pairing of new sculpture by Michelle Carla Handel and new paintings by Eve Wood, a two-person show about the... More >>

• One Day of Hard Labor

  published July 26, 2012

  If Dorothea Lange and Marina Abramovic had a baby, it might look like "American Realism." A durational performance for eight people exploring the... More >>

• Through the Post-War Looking Glass

  published April 5, 2012

  Through the Post-War Looking Glass In the middle of the 20th century, photography was winning the battle to be considered the legitimate and... More >>

• Your Daily Dose of POST

  published July 12, 2012

  "Difficult times invite difficult gestures." So says POST director HK Zamani, the artist, curator and gleeful subversive behind the "2012 Kamikaze... More >>

• Gordy Grundy Goes Up in Flames

  published July 12, 2012

  In a sense, the visual output of Gordy Grundy's art studio is but one aspect of a much larger creative practice, one that also includes writing... More >>

• Shootings & Stars

  published June 7, 2012

  Typically when a "celebrity photographer" snaps people and events in his own life, it's still pretty glamorous scenery. But with Gregory... More >>

• People Who Live in Paper Houses...

  published May 31, 2012

  One of the most exciting aspects of the current climate of interdisciplinary practice in contemporary visual culture is the incursion of... More >>

• Best Art I Saw All Week: Ceramic Cups That Look Like a Gulf War Army

  published Jul 09, 2012

  When it comes to art addressing the violence of armed combat, you might not at first think of ceramic cups. But the use of this delicate, handmade medium to address the horrors of war and the bitter... More >>

• Day of the Jackel

  published May 17, 2012

  Ben Jackel makes amazing, deceptively simple sculptures that resemble the familiar objects they depict in precise, witty detail, even as they... More >>

• Pulp and Fiction

  published June 28, 2012

  When someone invites you to a reading, your first thought may not be a crowd of a few thousand, liquored up and with gallows humor at the ready,... More >>

• Knowledges Is Power

  published June 21, 2012

  In possibly the most archetypally Californian art experiment of the summer, the Mount Wilson Observatory (Griffith Park's less flashy but equally... More >>

• Jim Mahfood Is Off Like a Prom Dress

  published June 14, 2012

  Los Angeles Ink Stains started out as painter Jim "Food One" Mahfood's personal labor of love during the slowest days of the 2008 economic... More >>

• Get an Advanced Degree in Sexy Revolution

  published May 24, 2012

  "The past is cracking off and the future is rushing in." Sandra Bernhard: Sandrology represents a new kind of science, one that takes hypocritical... More >>

• Best Art I Saw All Week: Das Institut's Abstract Paintings at MOCA

  published Jun 08, 2012

  The exhibit "The Painting Factory: Abstraction After Warhol," which is up at MOCA's Grand Ave location through August 20, is a big, breezy show that borders on eye candy. On balance, it succeeds at ... More >>

• The Art of an Operatic City

  published May 10, 2012

  The tagline for the Industry's new theatrical production Crescent City is "Gallery by Day, Opera by Night," and while that gives audiences some... More >>

• Take This Roadkill and Stuff It

  published May 3, 2012

  It's disgusting. It's creepy. It's haunting, funny and sometimes even beautiful. It's mixed-media sculpture in the broadest sense — made from... More >>