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Shana Nys Dambrot

@shananys.bsky.social

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Art critic, curator, author, personality. 🖼️✍️Village Voice, Flaunt, Whitehot, Alta. Founder at 13ThingsLA🗓️ Novelist at 📕Zen Psychosis 💻 www.sndx.net 🔗 open.substack.com/pub/hijinxarts ☕️

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

In this house we…

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Sat May 30 panel at Laguna Art Museum w renowned painter Andy Moses & curator Peter Frank explores Moses’ investigations into light, space & perception. Moderated by celebrated art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, offering insight in the broader context of SoCal art. www.lagunabeachindy.com/town_crier/t...

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Town Crier: May 29

KXFM celebrates Grand Opening of New Station

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Sunday brunch time! galleryplatform.la/galleries/tr...

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Sandow Birk in conversation with Shana Nys Dambrot

A project of Gallery Association Los Angeles (GALA) formed to serve the dynamic Los Angeles art community featuring original editorial content and up to date exhibition information.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Okay Jack White! I kinda hate how much I love this work actually. news.artnet.com/art-world/ja...

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Inside Jack White’s Eccentric Show of ‘Hardware Store Art’ | Artnet News

Jack White is unveiling his creative universe at his first art exhibition, now open at Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Before the Myth, There Was Yoko Ono A retrospective at the Broad traces seven decades of radical art, music, and activism. By Shana Nys Dambrot www.altaonline.com/culture/art/...

Before the Myth, There Was Yoko Ono

A retrospective at the Broad traces seven decades of radical art, music, and activism.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Happening now on the Olympic Peninsula 🌳🌳🌳

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

#13ThingsLA: May 13—Jet Lag for your art calendar—perception-warping art at Gagosian, Sprüth Magers, Beverly Hills Art Show, Make Room, Parrasch Heijnen, Kordansky, Track 16, Angels Gate, Skirball, albertz benda, Tyler Park, Anat Ebgi & Grand Annex Music Hall. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: May 13

Jet Lag for your art calendar

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Greetings, Veneziani!

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The FEATURED PICK in the new #13ThingsLA is…Our Fantabulously Furry Feline Friends opens Sat, May 2, 6-10pm at Thinkspace. The insidious appeal of #cat endures in a survey of 50 global artistic perspectives. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla... #art #westadams #galleries #openings #freekittens

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

#13ThingsLA April 29 art calendar: Thinkspace, La Luz, Perrotin, Hauser & Wirth, Matthew Brown Gallery (new spot!), Blue Roof Arts, Eastern Projects, Writers Bloc, The Huntington, Metabolic Studio, CAAM, Now Be Here on zoom, the Library open late, and #cats. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: April 29

Finishing School for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#13ThingsLA: April 22 Red Flags for your #art calendar Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Craft Contemporary, Wende, Royale Projects, Chris Sharp, Middle Room, Shatto, Ellie Mayer, Luis De Jesus, Getty, FORT: LA, Open Studios in San Pedro & DTLA, Indie Bookstore Day. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: April 22

Unconventional Materials for your art calendar

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 15/04/2026

The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to the Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, testing a country-to-country aid program that contrasts with a Trump administration plan that would focus on for-profit ventures in rebuilding Ukraine. nyti.ms/427mjsZ

What Happened After Denmark Adopted a Ruined City in Ukraine

The Danish government has contributed more than $250 million to Mykolaiv, as the Trump administration pushes a more business-focused plan.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Jewel kinda likes it in her brand new place. On the eve of a new art show amid the hubbub of the Venice Biennale—the transition from the acoustic vibration of a guitar string to the data-driven algorithms of a 60,000-LED sculpture might seem like a departure… www.musicconnection.com/sounds-and-v...

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Sounds and Visions: Jewel in Venice

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

#13ThingsLA: April 8—Climatize for your art calendar. A sparkling review at The Pit; a busy day on Melrose Hill; plus Fahey/Klein, Sky Portal, Spruth Magers/MAK, Pace, Artbook (with me!), Arcane Space, Giant Robot, Getty, Judith Center, VPAM & the Library. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: April 8

Climatize for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

#13ThingsLA: March 25. Our review of Pierson at Regen; new #art with main character energy at Track 16 (with me!), Art/Space114 (with me!), Craft in America, Zwirner, High Desert Art Fair, Billis Williams, Face Guts, TAM, MOLAA, Wende, Cabin, and Broad Stage. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: March 25

Whose Streets for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

#13ThingsLA: March 18 #art calendar ☀️ Reviews at Karma & MAK; new at Perrotin, Kordansky, Track 16, Music Center, LBMA, Descanso, Craig Krull, The Pit, The Huntington, REDCAT & The Ebell’s “A Woman’s Place” show, co-juried by Heidi, Shana & Dominique Clayton! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: March 18

Shakespeare’s Sister for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

#13ThingsLA: March 11 #art calendar features Tacita Dean reviewed at Marian Goodman; plus curated picks at Gagosian, PRS, Des Artistes, DMST, Ruth Gallery at Artbug, Angel’s Gate, ATLA, Vielmetter, summaeverything, KP Projects, Philip Martin, and The Nimoy. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: March 11

Rare Earth for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Track 16 Gallery on the evening of Thursday, March 26. We’re gonna talk #art, we’re gonna get real mad, we’re gonna laugh… And then we’re gonna stay late and make some artsy #protest signs for Saturday. Come on out, Los Angeles! #dtla 🖼️🖕🏼🧊🚫👑🪧

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

We saw someone walking a dog downtown today who looks exactly like #Chalamet and we were both like oh my God that poor kid—until 24 hours ago looking like Timothée Chalamet was his best play. And now he’s reduced to walking a puppy in the hopes that women will still talk to him 😂😂😂😂😂

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

#13thingsla : March 4 for your #art calendar #REVIEWS at Vielmetter, Wilding Cran, James Fuentes, OCHI & MOCA/LA Phil. Plus new at Pasadena City College, ArtCenter, FOCA, Corey Helford, Copro, Mr. Wash’s studio, solo., and a very special Little Tokyo Flea. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: March 4

New Reviews Special for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Coping mechanism 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

#13ThingsLA: Feb 25 Love and War for your art calendar Seven art fairs in like four days; Carpenters, Metabolic Studio, ArtCenter, The Pit, Bergamot, Gemini, Eames House, Artbug, Subliminal, Getty, Luis De Jesus, homeLA. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla... #art #artweekla #laartweek #artfairs

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13ThingsLA: February 25

Love and War for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

This Saturday at Blue Roof, join our current #artistinresidence Malak Manzour and me for "Fragments of a Dream," a reading & conversation navigating the shared territory between ancestral memory & the oneiric landscapes of the subconscious. Feb 21. 3-5pm #LosAngeles. www.blueroof.art/fragmentsofa...

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

#13ThingsLA: Feb 18 #art calendar. Half Gallery, Perrotin, Deitch, Armory, Blue Roof (w/ SND!), as-is, Nazarian/Curcio, Serious Topics, Richard Heller, SM Airport studios, albertz benda, Oxy Arts, and the crush of galleries in Melrose Hill—even some new ones! hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: February 18

Coded Messages for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

#13ThingsLA: Feb 11! Melt with You for your art calendar highlights Attune, Dorado 806, Wonzimer, Vielmetter, Band of Vices, Hannah Sloan, Autry, Marta, Okey Dokey Konrad Fischer, Feminist Love Letters, LACE, Kohn, Getty Villa. 💕 hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla... #art #galleries #losangeles

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13ThingsLA: February 11

Melt with You for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

It’s #13ThingsLA Feb 4! Paradigmatic for your #art calendar features LMU Laband Gallery, Chuck Arnoldi’s studio, Art/Space 114, La Luz de Jesus, Julia Stoschek Fdn, KP Projects, LAUNCH, Gamble House, CMay, Not Shockboxx, Arcana, Oxy Arts & Music Center. 💫💫💫 hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: February 4

Paradigmatic for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

With the #GRAMMYs tonight, this seemed like a good moment to share my Sounds & Visions column for the February Music Connection! 🖼️📸🎶 I wrote about this year’s Best Album Cover nominees the way I’d look at a group show. #art #music #albumcovers www.musicconnection.com/sounds-and-v...

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Sounds and Visions: A Gallery-Ready GRAMMY Group Show

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Apropos of nothing in particular, please listen to the possum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Dr...

Muppets - Stop Whats's that sound

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

#13ThingsLA: Jan 28 Nebular Transits for your #art calendar 💫 A review at ICA LA; new at Gagosian, LACP, LAPL, SCI-Arc, Pace, Keystone, Performance Art Museum, Good Naked, Giant Robot, Timothy Hawkinson, and Jack Rutberg; plus planting trees in Grand Park. hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: January 28

Nebular Transits for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

January in my Sounds & Visions Music Connection column—an exploration of David Schwartz’s sculptural mixtapes — #GenX, this one’s for you! #MusicConnection #SoundsAndVisions #DavidSchwartz #ArtAndSound 🎧📼💫 www.musicconnection.com/sounds-and-v...

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Sounds and Visions: David Schwartz Remixes the Mixtape

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

#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...

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13ThingsLA: January 21

Empirical for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Sometimes it’s like this though ⛲️🪴

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

#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...

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13ThingsLA: January 14

Attunement for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

I was not expecting the lobby of this random medical plaza in #DTLA to be so gorgeous today. #Beauty really can be anywhere and everywhere I guess! 🏙️🌤️🪴

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

Wintry Mix for the new year by #artist Harry Bliss. substack.com/@newyorker/n...

The New Yorker (@newyorker)

The cover for this week’s issue is “Wintry Mix,” by Harry Bliss.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

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

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

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...

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13ThingsLA: December 31

Reorientation for your art calendar

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Christmas Day post. C’est la vie! Sea la vie! #cheers 🌅🌴🌊

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The make me #art that’s better than #nature challenge

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

30 seconds of #rain in Quintana Roo

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

#Holiday in the sun. Vibe: lucky. Mood: improving.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

#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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13ThingsLA: December 17

As You Wish for your art calendar

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 15/12/2025

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Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Good advice. 🦊 substack.com/@tiphainemar...

Tiphaine Marie (@tiphainemarie)

A little reminder as the days are getting colder

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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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13ThingsLA: December 10

How Bazaar for your art calendar

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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

#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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13ThingsLA: December 3

Mulled for your art calendar

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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

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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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 30/11/2025

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.

Shana Nys Dambrot @shananys.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

That time #13thingsla went on a #romanholiday… #tredicicoseroma for your art 🗓️ hijinxarts.substack.com/p/13thingsla...

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13ThingsLA: November 26