Shana Nys Dambrot
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Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. Formerly Managing Editor at Flavorpill, more recently LA CANVAS Art + Books Editor, L.A. Editor for WhiteHot Magazine,Contributing Editor for Art Ltd., and Art Editor for VS Magazine, based in NYC. Her writing additionally appears in publications including the L.A. Weekly, Bluecanvas, and has appeared in Modern Painters, Art Review, Artweek, ARTnews, the Believer, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Coagula, and Juxtapoz. Her monthly art essay, Urban Scrawl, lives at Createfixate.com, where she tries to revive the temporarily misplaced art of the long-form zeitgeisty think-piece. She is also published in a large number of exhibition catalogs and artist-monograph essays, curates a small number of gallery exhibitions each year, and speaks in public with alarming frequency.
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L.A. designer Victor Wilde sees fashion as the ultimate forum for a literally and metaphorically collaborative art form.
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Shana Nys Dambrot juxtaposes two different L.A. exhibits which examine the use of text and symbols.
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The Berlin Collective is a global arts network engineering intimate, user-friendly, spaces and contexts for experiencing contemporary art on a human scale.
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Photographer David LaChapelle takes on the world of high-stakes museum collections in his newest mammoth work -- a singular vision of destruction that pits nature against culture. Guess who wins.
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Pot Shots seeks to examine an emerging area of study: the architecture of the marijuana industry.
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Shrine, the hyper-creative and big-hearted painter, sculptor, art-festival headliner, scavenger and installation artist has created a visual culture he calls "the Empire of Love."
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The Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens transforms more than just the historic La Cañada grounds; it expands the way audiences encounter and understand contemporary art.
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Gorgeous, self-generating and/or interactive, randomizable, poetic, mesmerizing and addictive, the best art apps are also, ironically, almost impossible to find without infinite patience or an inside tip on where to look.
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Posted Sonia Romero: From her Print Studio in North East LA, an Artist Depicts and Adorns her Imagination and the Public Life of a City
in ArtboundPainter and print-maker Sonia Romero's new project, "Revolving Landscape", depicts characters based on people she's met and photographed. -
The work of painter Eloy Torrez, one of the best known of L.A.'s old-school muralists, will be featured in a new exhibition downtown called "Flashback to Now".
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Two culture-based events near Skid Row realigned conceptions of what space can be occupied.
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Shana Nys Dambrot examines the eternal allure of paradise in Palm Springs and the ongoing architectural struggle for the city's soul.
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Two things Southern California has in abundance: sunshine and plastic. Chief among the artistic prime movers that pushed L.A. onto the international art-world stage was the Light & Space movement, the ultimate byproduct of Southern California's sunkissed and spaceward-thinking intellectual environment.
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L.A. designer Victor Wilde sees fashion as the ultimate forum for a literally and metaphorically collaborative art form.
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Shana Nys Dambrot juxtaposes two different L.A. exhibits which examine the use of text and symbols.
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The Berlin Collective is a global arts network engineering intimate, user-friendly, spaces and contexts for experiencing contemporary art on a human scale.
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Photographer David LaChapelle takes on the world of high-stakes museum collections in his newest mammoth work -- a singular vision of destruction that pits nature against culture. Guess who wins.
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Pot Shots seeks to examine an emerging area of study: the architecture of the marijuana industry.
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Shrine, the hyper-creative and big-hearted painter, sculptor, art-festival headliner, scavenger and installation artist has created a visual culture he calls "the Empire of Love."
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The Sturt Haaga Gallery at the Descanso Gardens transforms more than just the historic La Cañada grounds; it expands the way audiences encounter and understand contemporary art.
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Gorgeous, self-generating and/or interactive, randomizable, poetic, mesmerizing and addictive, the best art apps are also, ironically, almost impossible to find without infinite patience or an inside tip on where to look.
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Posted Sonia Romero: From her Print Studio in North East LA, an Artist Depicts and Adorns her Imagination and the Public Life of a City
in ArtboundPainter and print-maker Sonia Romero's new project, "Revolving Landscape", depicts characters based on people she's met and photographed. -
The work of painter Eloy Torrez, one of the best known of L.A.'s old-school muralists, will be featured in a new exhibition downtown called "Flashback to Now".
