Shana Nys Dambrot
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator, and author based in Los Angeles. She is currently L.A. editor for Whitehot Magazine, contributing editor to Art Ltd., and a contributor to KCET’s Artbound, Flaunt, Huffington Post, The Creators Project, Vs. Magazine, Palm Springs Life, Montage, Desert Magazine, L.A. Review of Books, and Porter & Sail. She studied art history at Vassar College, writes loads of essays for art books and exhibition catalogs, curates and/or juries a few exhibitions each year, sometimes exhibits her photography and publishes short fiction, and speaks in public at galleries, schools, and cultural institutions nationally. An account of her activities is sometimes updated at sndx.net.
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A contemporary arts festival at LAX explores the visual dynamics of air travel.
Danielle Eubank's gets closer to her goal of painting all the world's oceans as she prepares to leave for a month-long voyage to the Arctic Circle north of Norway.
Cleon Peterson's shadowy figures mete out violence in images that could just as well depict justice as they do barbarity.
In the L.A. art scene, there has been a lack of the grassroots middle. The Mistake Room, a new gallery space in downtown's industrial core, seeks to fill the void.
More than a quarter of artists in the 2014 Whitney Biennial are from California, offering west coast representation in an exhibition that is heavy with New York artists.
Eames Demetrios places physical markers around the world commemorating sites of historical significance that refer to the realms of Kcymaerxthaere.
Arts ReSTORE L.A. partners cultural institutions with local business districts and civic-minded foundations to revitalize flagging neighborhood economies with an influx of culture-based operations.