Shana Nys Dambrot
@shananys.bsky.social
Art critic, curator, author, personality. 🖼️✍️Village Voice, Flaunt, Whitehot, Alta. Founder at 13ThingsLA🗓️ Novelist at 📕Zen Psychosis 💻 http://www.sndx.net 🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/hijinxarts ☕️
#13thingsla: January 21 features a review of the must-see show at James Fuentes; openings at Fahey/Klein, Shatto, Von Lintel, Louis Stern, M+B & Philip Martin; plus talks etc at Getty Center, Blue Roof, ArtCenter, ICA LA, & Thomas Cooper Studio’s open house! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: January 21
Empirical for your art calendar
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January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
#13thingsla: January 21 features a review of the must-see show at James Fuentes; openings at Fahey/Klein, Shatto, Von Lintel, Louis Stern, M+B & Philip Martin; plus talks etc at Getty Center, Blue Roof, ArtCenter, ICA LA, & Thomas Cooper Studio’s open house! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
Sometimes it’s like this though ⛲️🪴
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 PM
Sometimes it’s like this though ⛲️🪴
#13ThingsLA: January 14, Attunement for your #art calendar features Tierra del Sol, Karma, David Kordansky, LACMA, Walter Maciel, the Hammer, Regen Projects, Night, Baert, Roberts Projects, Marc Selwyn, Photo Walk, & BLOOM for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: January 14
Attunement for your art calendar
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January 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
#13ThingsLA: January 14, Attunement for your #art calendar features Tierra del Sol, Karma, David Kordansky, LACMA, Walter Maciel, the Hammer, Regen Projects, Night, Baert, Roberts Projects, Marc Selwyn, Photo Walk, & BLOOM for AIDS Healthcare Foundation. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
Wintry Mix for the new year by #artist Harry Bliss. substack.com/@newyorker/n...
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The cover for this week’s issue is “Wintry Mix,” by Harry Bliss.
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January 7, 2026 at 12:45 AM
Wintry Mix for the new year by #artist Harry Bliss. substack.com/@newyorker/n...
This may be my favorite story I worked on in 2025. Signal Festival uses light, projection & digital media to activate #Prague’s historic architecture with #art at scale. I wrote about its evolution, new permanent #gallery, & future public ambitions in Flaunt Magazine. www.flaunt.com/post/signal-...
Signal Festival Flares Up in Prague | The Future at Home in the Old City
A yearly festival and new permanent gallery prove futurity can coexist with history
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January 4, 2026 at 9:42 PM
This may be my favorite story I worked on in 2025. Signal Festival uses light, projection & digital media to activate #Prague’s historic architecture with #art at scale. I wrote about its evolution, new permanent #gallery, & future public ambitions in Flaunt Magazine. www.flaunt.com/post/signal-...
The December 31 #13ThingsLA for your #art calendar features MOCA / The Brick; Wonzimer, Musee du Al, Matter Studio, Villa Aurora / 18th Street, bG / Sparks, Koplin del Rio, M+B, The Landing, Tyler Park Presents, David Zwirner, Philip Martin, & the Rose Parade. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: December 31
Reorientation for your art calendar
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December 31, 2025 at 10:02 PM
The December 31 #13ThingsLA for your #art calendar features MOCA / The Brick; Wonzimer, Musee du Al, Matter Studio, Villa Aurora / 18th Street, bG / Sparks, Koplin del Rio, M+B, The Landing, Tyler Park Presents, David Zwirner, Philip Martin, & the Rose Parade. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
#13ThingsLA Dec 17! As You Wish for your #art calendar has moments for mindfulness, storytelling, empathy, hellos, goodbyes & laughter—at Hammer, REDCAT, SPY, Art/Space 114, Feia, CAAM, ArtCenter, Luisotti, Descanso, OCHI, William Turner, Copro & #xmas movies! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: December 17
As You Wish for your art calendar
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December 17, 2025 at 11:59 PM
#13ThingsLA Dec 17! As You Wish for your #art calendar has moments for mindfulness, storytelling, empathy, hellos, goodbyes & laughter—at Hammer, REDCAT, SPY, Art/Space 114, Feia, CAAM, ArtCenter, Luisotti, Descanso, OCHI, William Turner, Copro & #xmas movies! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
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Good advice. 🦊 substack.com/@tiphainemar...
Tiphaine Marie (@tiphainemarie)
A little reminder as the days are getting colder
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December 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Good advice. 🦊 substack.com/@tiphainemar...
A new #13ThingsLA is here! December 10 highlights Charlie James, MutMuz, Open Mind Art Space, Arcana Books, Dorado 806, William Grant Still Arts Center, The Huntington, LAMAG/Barnsdall, Oxford House at home, Automata, Japan Fdn & Institute for Art & Olfaction. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: December 10
How Bazaar for your art calendar
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December 10, 2025 at 8:27 PM
A new #13ThingsLA is here! December 10 highlights Charlie James, MutMuz, Open Mind Art Space, Arcana Books, Dorado 806, William Grant Still Arts Center, The Huntington, LAMAG/Barnsdall, Oxford House at home, Automata, Japan Fdn & Institute for Art & Olfaction. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
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My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 AM
My love for em dashes is as old as the hills and as mighty as my inability to make a transition between thoughts literally any other way and I will be damned if I let the clankers take that from me
#13ThingsLA Dec 3: Mulled for your art calendar. The Broad, DTLA Artnight, Wonzimer, VPAM, MOCA, Track 16, Eastern Projects, Bermudez Projects, ArtDivision, Wende, Craft in America, Timothy Hawkinson & REDCAT. Read more & subscribe today to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: December 3
Mulled for your art calendar
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December 4, 2025 at 6:42 AM
#13ThingsLA Dec 3: Mulled for your art calendar. The Broad, DTLA Artnight, Wonzimer, VPAM, MOCA, Track 16, Eastern Projects, Bermudez Projects, ArtDivision, Wende, Craft in America, Timothy Hawkinson & REDCAT. Read more & subscribe today to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
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No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
December 1, 2025 at 8:59 PM
No offense but I think we underestimate how many of our current problems, both cultural and political, are downstream of the decline in reading, the decline in learning and the loss of interest in the humanities.
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When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
When he’s gone, I know there will be a lot to do, but can we make sure the living rose garden gets restored?
Started. Going.
Started. Going.
That time #13thingsla went on a #romanholiday… #tredicicoseroma for your art 🗓️ hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: November 26
Roman Holiday
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November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
That time #13thingsla went on a #romanholiday… #tredicicoseroma for your art 🗓️ hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
November 26, 2025 at 5:27 AM
A new #13ThingsLA is here! November 19 #art calendar. LACMA, DON’T LOOK Projects (with Shana talking), and furtherness at Fahey/Klein, North Loop West, Santa Monica Airport, Craig Krull Gallery, ATLA, Phase, Photo Arts Council, Hannah Sloan, UCR, Otis & LOA. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: November 19
Trip Around the Sun for your art calendar
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November 19, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A new #13ThingsLA is here! November 19 #art calendar. LACMA, DON’T LOOK Projects (with Shana talking), and furtherness at Fahey/Klein, North Loop West, Santa Monica Airport, Craig Krull Gallery, ATLA, Phase, Photo Arts Council, Hannah Sloan, UCR, Otis & LOA. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
A tiger I met at the Zoological Biopark in Borghese Gardens today.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
A tiger I met at the Zoological Biopark in Borghese Gardens today.
