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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 4d

Autumn and Spring at the same time #prague

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 4d

Every uber driver in Prague is blasting American hip-hop 💫 my heart

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 7d

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...

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 7d

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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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 14d

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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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 19d

A new #13ThingsLA is here! October 1st’s art calendar visits High Desert artist studios, DTLA ArtNight, Blakehaus in a Lautner, Middle Room, Hannah Sloan, Giant Robot, Kohn, Bestor Architecture, James Fuentes, Bradbury Building, Good Mother & homeLA. Sign up: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: October 1

Home, School for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 24d

For letting me be myself, again 🎶🎶

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 25d

How it started how it’s going? Also, we’re all saying it wrong.

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 25d

Stuck in traffic

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 26d

Shrug

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 20

My kind of #labubu. Embroidered canvas by Erick Medel at #charliejamesgallery.

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 17

Sept 17th #13ThingsLA #art calendar features Night Gallery, Patricia Sweetow, Michael Werner, Kleefeld Contemporary, ArtCenter, House of CoHit, CMay, Karma, Forest Lawn Museum, The Broad, PRS, TAG & LA Phil. Read more & subscribe today to never miss a thing: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: September 17

A River Runs Through It for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 13

Mona Demon by Alex Gross, in KP Projects’ big summer group show 👀

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 13

Stop what you’re doing and look at this hell on wheels painting.

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 11

#13ThingsLA Sept 10: Art for our refractive, boundary-blurring moment, at Luis De Jesus, ATLA, North Loop West, Pace, Timothy Hawkinson, Nazarian Curcio, Jeffrey Deitch, Track 16, Anat Ebgi, David Kordansky, 1301PE, Perrotin & Getty Villa. Subscribe today! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: September 10

Situational Awareness for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 4

I am unreasonably excited to see this in New York in a couple of weeks! Godot’s excellent adventure! 🕛🪑🪑

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 3

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/...

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Sep 3

A new #13ThingsLA is here with #art at Bergamot Station, Rita House, Rhimes Arts Center, Billis Williams Gallery, Craft Contemporary, Thinkspace, Blue Roof, Bermudez Projects, Parrasch Heijnen, Babst Gallery, Charlotte Call Gallery, Alto Beta, and the Alex. 🗓️ hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: September 3

Begin Again for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 30

A little late posting because linear time is an illusion, but my August column at #musicconnection was a story about the absolutely radiant and cosmically talented being that is JOJO ABOT.
Read here or find it in print: www.musicconnection.com/sounds-and-v...
#soundsandvisions @jojoabot.bsky.social

Sounds and Visions: Jojo Abot

#Post Excerpt

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 27

A new issue of #13ThingsLA is here! August 27: Far Out for your #art calendar features exhibitions, performances, conversations, immersions, road trips, at least two different unicorns, and the most wholesome short film ever. Read & subscribe now on #substack! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: August 27

Far Out for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 25

We’re honored to be featured in a very cool story on how new #art writing platforms are centering #LosAngeles! Huge thanks to Laura Hertzfeld & @theartnewspaper.bsky.social for including the independent art writing ethos of #13ThingsLA in this timely coverage! www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/08/22/a...

New app aims to improve access to Los Angeles art scene

The ArtWrld app, which also covers New York and plans to add more cities soon, is one of several digital resources seeking to keep art-loving Angelenos in the know

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 22

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:

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 21

I had the pleasure of writing the catalog essay to Flora Kao’s #COLA2025 project: “Kao’s inventive, soulful work begins in the past. That’s because history, like memory, is societal, generational, ever-present, familial, malleable, and somatic…”

Full essay on Substack: substack.com/@shananys/no...

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Flora Kao: Boundless Histories by Shana Nys Dambrot Flora Kao’s inventive, soulful interdisciplinary work always begins in the past. That’s because history, like memory, is societal, generational, h...

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 20

A new #13thingsla is here! August 20 sees ideas about home in #art, architecture, design, painting, sculpture, and spirit. Art Bug, Barnsdall, LAND, LA Forum, LACE, 839, AMPHI, TAM, Norton Simon, Armory, NHM, Craft in America, American Cinematheque.

See it: hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

13ThingsLA: August 20

Like Home for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · Aug 16

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...

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