SND (aka Shana Nys Dambrot) is the luckiest girl in the world. Growing up in Manhattan, she studied Art History at Vassar and worked for Leo Castelli, Larry Gagosian and the Guggenheim Museum before moving to LA in 1995 in search of more open ranges, and since that time her fine art & design reviews, features and interviews have appeared in scores of publications including Modern Painters, Art Review, ARTnews, Whitehotmagazine.com, Kotori Magazine, tema celeste, Angeleno, Art Asia Pacific, Intersection, TimeOut LA, Juxtapoz and Coagula Art Journal, and she is currently the LA Managing Editor at Flavorpill.net and a Contributing Editor at its affiliate publication Arkrush.com, as well as at west coast bastions Artweek and Art Ltd.
SND thinks of herself as a fresher, more modern kind of critic than the stereotypical elitist didact. Her goal is to inspire a love of art in a broad an audience, using as little impenetrable artspeak as possible. See, the world is full of very smart people who never took an art class; they have the yearning and the capacity to bring art into their lives but don’t know where to start, and SND wants to show them. Her blog at Uber.com/snd is the most powerful tool in her arsenal to date; giving her a platform to share a kaleidoscopic range of interpretation, discovery, adventure, curiosity and behind-the-scenes access to the hardy and heady LA art world that has given her so much.
I bet by now you’re sick of hearing about how busy I am with all the stops on the fabulous itinerary of my life. If it makes you feel any better I’m under full-on house arrest pretty much all this week, kind of like self-imposed detention. But the sleeplessness has been particularly worth it lately with lots of yummy, politically progressive rock and roll music from one end of the Rage Against the Machine spectrum to the other. Let me explain…
First came the kick-off for the Nightwatchman (aka Tom Morello) and his national Justice Tour. My friend Carol is doing a complete blog post after every stop so I suggest you just hit the Nightwatchman page and get caught up, but essentially they are taking an all-star indie legend revue around the country, Partnering with local social activists, and rocking out without ever forgetting why. It’s a beautiful thing. Then week gets bookend with the “Like a Complete Unknown” Dylan tribute at the Skirball, where we witnessed, among other things Michael Franti rocking the “Subterranean Homesick Blues” and Zack de la Rocha radiating like a supernova on “Only a Pawn on their Game”. It was pretty smooth, and it gave me the strength I needed for the nasty turn of events in recent Obama headlines, plus it had a certain LA poetry to it…
I’m seeing a bunch of great art this weekend, but I might not be able to make it to everything… what are you most excited about? Greg Crewdson? Incognito? Some more melting ice somewhere perhaps?
I had so many great images, I thought they deserved their own page. So visit this site: http://snd.uber.com/images, or click on the My Websites tab, and peruse...
don't tell me you think she'd have voted against it if she were the nominee! that's just naive. anyway i plan on renewing my ACLU membership again this year and also on answering my phone, "F*ck George Bush" every day until Obama is inaugurated.
I've heard that argument. Just as I've heard that he would have voted for the invasion of Iraq if he had been in the Senate. Maybe to both. Maybe not. But he did promise to filibuster FISA and didn't. I'll still vote for him - McCain is a short fuse and should be kept from any triggers, but I've been sending $$ to ActBlue. Anybody decent running against Pelosi and Feinstein will also give a few dollars from me.
I guess I was hoping I was wrong and he was in fact different. Oh well.
