STARTING SHT

/ HECHO POR

/ FROM PODCAST TO PRINT

Image © Dama Gallery, Courtesy ART SHT MAG

The idea for ART SHT MAG started on an episode of The Gallery Hangover Podcast. We were discussing, again, how another strong exhibition would get zero local coverage, and the solution was obvious: stop waiting for someone else to print our stories and print them ourselves.

Written by Yessíca Torres, owner of Dama Gallery, and designed by Rodrigo Aguilar, owner of Pacific + Main Creative Workspace. The same individuals host the podcast and operate the oldest independently owned contemporary art gallery in Ventura County. Latin-owned, built from the ground up, and still here after fifteen years without investors, grants, donations or anyone’s permission.

Every issue covers it all: the exhibitions worth seeing, the artists people should know, and insights for collectors. We write about process, concept, and craft, because the work deserves more than a caption and a party photo. We discuss art collecting from the inside: what’s worth buying, who’s worth watching, and how real collections are built. And we cover the gallery stories you didn’t see on Instagram: the ones we’ve lived, witnessed, and dealt with firsthand over fifteen years in this business. The deals that fell through, the artists who were overlooked, the decisions made behind closed doors, and the work, money, and promises that quietly disappeared. The controversies and the politics, all the chisme and the industry truths no one else will print. If a story is worth knowing, it’s fair game.

ART SHT MAG isn’t for everyone. It’s for the artists who are tired of being overlooked, the collectors who want to know what’s actually happening, and the readers who’d rather turn a page than scroll a feed.