Shana Nys Dambrot
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Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. She is currently LA Editor for WhiteHot Magazine, Contributing Editor for Art Ltd., Art Editor for VS. Magazine, a featured arts writer and blogger at the LA Weekly, a contributor to Flaunt Magazine, Bluecanvas, and KCET’s transmedia culture program, Artbound. Formerly Managing Editor at Flavorpill.com and Art + Books Editor at LA CANVAS, other publications have included Modern Painters, Art Review, Artweek, ARTnews, the Believer, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Coagula, and Juxtapoz. She has written essays for scores of exhibition catalogs and artist-monographs, curates a handful of exhibitions each year, and speaks in public with alarming frequency. A full account of her activities is sometimes updated at www.sndx.net.
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Echo Park native Dorian Wood, a prolific avant-garde musician and visual artist, believes in offering a truly immersive experience when he performs for an audience.
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Sculptor Nathan Mabry reimagines a familiar form of public art, the heroic monument, in a way that is startlingly inventive and very funny.
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The Institute for Art and Olfaction pushes the boundaries of the world of perfumery, experimenting with the concept of scent as an artistic tool.
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Posted Pop Surrealism Now: Greg CRAOLA Simkins on Street Art, Wild Kingdom, and Spraycans
in ArtboundL.A. artist CRAOLA is generally associated with Pop Surrealism and Street Art, but he finds both terms equally problematic -- being both too broad and too specific at once. -
Posted Gary Baseman and Me: Critique, Correspondence, and Collaboration in the Art World
in ArtboundGary Baseman creates a parallel universe of stylized landscapes populated by gently feral creatures and doe-eyed maidens. -
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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Echo Park native Dorian Wood, a prolific avant-garde musician and visual artist, believes in offering a truly immersive experience when he performs for an audience.
-
Sculptor Nathan Mabry reimagines a familiar form of public art, the heroic monument, in a way that is startlingly inventive and very funny.
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The Institute for Art and Olfaction pushes the boundaries of the world of perfumery, experimenting with the concept of scent as an artistic tool.
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Posted Pop Surrealism Now: Greg CRAOLA Simkins on Street Art, Wild Kingdom, and Spraycans
in ArtboundL.A. artist CRAOLA is generally associated with Pop Surrealism and Street Art, but he finds both terms equally problematic -- being both too broad and too specific at once. -
Posted Gary Baseman and Me: Critique, Correspondence, and Collaboration in the Art World
in ArtboundGary Baseman creates a parallel universe of stylized landscapes populated by gently feral creatures and doe-eyed maidens. -
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.
