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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: 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...

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13ThingsLA: February 11
Melt with You for your art calendar
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February 11, 2026 at 7:53 PM
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...
13ThingsLA: February 4
Paradigmatic for your art calendar
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February 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
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...
Sounds and Visions: A Gallery-Ready GRAMMY Group Show
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February 1, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Apropos of nothing in particular, please listen to the possum. www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Dr...
Muppets - Stop Whats's that sound
YouTube video by JayB7869
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January 30, 2026 at 5:06 AM
#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...
13ThingsLA: January 28
Nebular Transits for your art calendar
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January 28, 2026 at 9:52 PM
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...
Sounds and Visions: David Schwartz Remixes the Mixtape
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January 26, 2026 at 6:58 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...
13ThingsLA: January 21
Empirical for your art calendar
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January 21, 2026 at 7:58 PM
Sometimes it’s like this though ⛲️🪴
January 21, 2026 at 7:18 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...
13ThingsLA: January 14
Attunement for your art calendar
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January 14, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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! 🏙️🌤️🪴
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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.
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January 7, 2026 at 12:45 AM
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
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
Christmas Day post. C’est la vie! Sea la vie! #cheers 🌅🌴🌊
December 25, 2025 at 10:47 PM
The make me #art that’s better than #nature challenge
December 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
30 seconds of #rain in Quintana Roo
December 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
#Holiday in the sun. Vibe: lucky. Mood: improving.
December 22, 2025 at 7:28 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
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December 15, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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A little reminder as the days are getting colder
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December 15, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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
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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
#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
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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
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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.
November 30, 2025 at 2:47 AM