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Shana Nys Dambrot
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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 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
Reposted by Shana Nys Dambrot
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
Reposted by Shana Nys Dambrot
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.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM
13ThingsLA: November 26
Roman Holiday
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November 30, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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 tiger I met at the Zoological Biopark in Borghese Gardens today.
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Ciao, Roma!
November 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Office hours in Sorrento this week #kipaipai #viewsofvesuvius
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Twilight in Sorrento
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
How do you say rainbow in Italian? #napoli
November 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Reposted by Shana Nys Dambrot
Viernes
Tanya Mayers
November 7, 2025 at 7:32 AM
A new #13ThingsLA! November 5: Shape-Shifting for your art calendar features Regen, 7811, MOCA, Night, Von Lintel, Boxo Projects, Charlie James, Jeffrey Deitch, Nazarian/Curcio, Marian Goodman, Luis De Jesus, 1301pe & homeLA. Subscribe to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: November 5
Shape-Shifting for your art calendar
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November 5, 2025 at 8:35 PM
The venn diagram of million dollar venues and PR companies asking for a PDF or a screenshot of a publication that costs $1.25 a week, and the folks hosting panel discussions on why all the art critics are dead is a perfect circle. ⭕️ 🤦🏼‍♀️👩🏼‍💻⭕️
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Doing my best to find autumn inside in Los Angeles … 🍁 🌞 🪴
November 2, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Niche tweet. Not even Laurence Fishburne can make me forget that isn’t Henry Cavill.
November 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
New headshot! I think it really captures my inner self.
October 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM
A new #13ThingsLA! October 29: Thinly Veiled for your art calendar. M+B, Philosophical Research Society, Perrotin, Sebastian Gladstone, Shoshana Wayne, OCHI, Wilding Cran, The Pit, Now Instant Image Hall, LACE, LAND, Descanso Gardens & LA Opera. Get it: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: October 29
Thinly Veiled for your art calendar
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October 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
A new #13ThingsLA is here! October 22: Keep It Going for your art calendar features choose-your-own-adventure gatherings, as well as thoughtful design, literary, gallery, museum, proscenium, and greenspace exhibitions and experiences all over town. Read more: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: October 22
Keep It Going for your art calendar
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October 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Autumn and Spring at the same time #prague
October 17, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Every uber driver in Prague is blasting American hip-hop 💫 my heart
October 17, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I’ll be in Prague this weekend (Yes, my first time! Feel free to drop suggestions below!). Part of me feels like I’m sad to miss the 🚫👑🪧 but I am also really excited to see how it’s all covered from abroad. Also, I bet I could find one to vibe with while I’m there...
October 15, 2025 at 8:11 AM
A new #13ThingsLA is here! October 15: Walking Shoes for your art calendar is Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Philip Guston show at the Skirball; Wonzimer, Automata, Face Guts, Wende, VPAM, TAM, Culver City Art Walk, BH Art Show, LAND, Huntington, Getty & Outside In. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: October 15
Walking Shoes for your art calendar
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October 15, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The #13ThingsLA for Oct 8th Feature is a Review of the Hammer biennial. Plus the Andaz, ArtNight Pasadena, Zwirner, KP Projects, ICA, LAUNCH, Kohn, Art+Practice, Gemini & LACMA, Billis Williams, bG (where i have a talk on Saturday), and a celebratory funeral. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...
13ThingsLA: October 8
Tell Me About It for your art calendar
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October 8, 2025 at 5:12 AM