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 ☕️
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.
Office hours in Sorrento this week #kipaipai #viewsofvesuvius
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Office hours in Sorrento this week #kipaipai #viewsofvesuvius
Twilight in Sorrento
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Twilight in Sorrento
Doing my best to find autumn inside in Los Angeles … 🍁 🌞 🪴
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Doing my best to find autumn inside in Los Angeles … 🍁 🌞 🪴
New headshot! I think it really captures my inner self.
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
New headshot! I think it really captures my inner self.
For letting me be myself, again 🎶🎶
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
For letting me be myself, again 🎶🎶
How it started how it’s going? Also, we’re all saying it wrong.
September 27, 2025 at 6:06 AM
How it started how it’s going? Also, we’re all saying it wrong.
Stuck in traffic
September 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Stuck in traffic
My kind of #labubu. Embroidered canvas by Erick Medel at #charliejamesgallery.
September 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My kind of #labubu. Embroidered canvas by Erick Medel at #charliejamesgallery.
Stop what you’re doing and look at this hell on wheels painting.
September 13, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Stop what you’re doing and look at this hell on wheels painting.
Excited to share my new story for Alta Journal, exploring the current Sonia Romero exhibition at the #Catalina Museum for Art & History. With Romero’s very LA story & huge accomplishments in both #publicart & #painting / #printmaking, there’s so much to love here! www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
September 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Excited to share my new story for Alta Journal, exploring the current Sonia Romero exhibition at the #Catalina Museum for Art & History. With Romero’s very LA story & huge accomplishments in both #publicart & #painting / #printmaking, there’s so much to love here! www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...
I just had one of the top, wealthiest PR firms in the art world ask me to create a screenshot for them from the last issue of 13ThingsLA so they can show their client, because “it’s behind a pay wall.” Friends, the paywall is $5/mo ($1.25/wk). Gee why isn’t there more good art writing out there? Me:
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I just had one of the top, wealthiest PR firms in the art world ask me to create a screenshot for them from the last issue of 13ThingsLA so they can show their client, because “it’s behind a pay wall.” Friends, the paywall is $5/mo ($1.25/wk). Gee why isn’t there more good art writing out there? Me:
The Feature in the newest #13thingsla is… Frontier Futurism opens Sat, Aug 16, 6-9pm at Dorado 806. With Desert Style AZ, a vivacious cohort of contemporary artists whose work refracts the mythos of the American West in multivalent sensibilities. Until Aug 30. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
August 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The Feature in the newest #13thingsla is… Frontier Futurism opens Sat, Aug 16, 6-9pm at Dorado 806. With Desert Style AZ, a vivacious cohort of contemporary artists whose work refracts the mythos of the American West in multivalent sensibilities. Until Aug 30. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
Thank you so much for the thoughtful review, Liz Goldner! Grateful for your words on How Is the Weather? at OCCCA—a show close to my heart, with artists facing beauty, grief, and climate head-on.
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…and check out their mid-show artists reception on Sat, Aug 2! #ClimateArt
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…and check out their mid-show artists reception on Sat, Aug 2! #ClimateArt
July 31, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thank you so much for the thoughtful review, Liz Goldner! Grateful for your words on How Is the Weather? at OCCCA—a show close to my heart, with artists facing beauty, grief, and climate head-on.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
…and check out their mid-show artists reception on Sat, Aug 2! #ClimateArt
substack.com/home/post/p-...
…and check out their mid-show artists reception on Sat, Aug 2! #ClimateArt
A new @13thingsla art calendar is here! July 16: Sorry Not Sorry has a Tamara de Lempicka doc, plus openings & events at Dorado 806, Sean Kelly, Perrotin, SCI-Arc, TAG, the Brand, the Library, DON’T LOOK, Art+ Practice, Barnsdall, Long Beach & Mt. Wilson. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
July 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
A new @13thingsla art calendar is here! July 16: Sorry Not Sorry has a Tamara de Lempicka doc, plus openings & events at Dorado 806, Sean Kelly, Perrotin, SCI-Arc, TAG, the Brand, the Library, DON’T LOOK, Art+ Practice, Barnsdall, Long Beach & Mt. Wilson. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
The Feature Review in the new #13thingsla is… Daniela García Hamilton: “Amanecer / Atardecer (Sunrise / Sunset)” at Charlie James Gallery. In Chinatown through August 2.
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#art #losangeles #painting #embroidery
Read more and subscribe to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
#art #losangeles #painting #embroidery
July 4, 2025 at 9:43 PM
The Feature Review in the new #13thingsla is… Daniela García Hamilton: “Amanecer / Atardecer (Sunrise / Sunset)” at Charlie James Gallery. In Chinatown through August 2.
Read more and subscribe to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
#art #losangeles #painting #embroidery
Read more and subscribe to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
#art #losangeles #painting #embroidery
Find me at The Frick! ⛲️
July 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Find me at The Frick! ⛲️
Meet me at the Met! 🏙️🌳🌳🎼
June 28, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Meet me at the Met! 🏙️🌳🌳🎼
Greetings from the Guggenheim! 🪴🪴🪴🌀
June 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Greetings from the Guggenheim! 🪴🪴🪴🌀
Thank you, LA Press Club for recognizing my Artillery story on Lita Albuquerque and her stunning re-staging of Malibu Line as part of last year‘s PST initiative through LAND. 💙 The work itself was such a blessing, writing about it compounded that blessing, and here we are. All love. ⭐️💙⭐️💙⭐️
June 23, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Thank you, LA Press Club for recognizing my Artillery story on Lita Albuquerque and her stunning re-staging of Malibu Line as part of last year‘s PST initiative through LAND. 💙 The work itself was such a blessing, writing about it compounded that blessing, and here we are. All love. ⭐️💙⭐️💙⭐️