We’re honored to be included in The Art Newspaper. Huge thanks to Laura Hertzfeld for the thoughtful piece and to The Art Newspaper for spotlighting our work at 13ThingsLA.
As our co-founder and editor Shana Nys Dambrot shared, 13ThingsLA is part of a shift in how cultural stories are told, rethinking independent arts coverage and making space for the voices and places too often overlooked.
It is validating to see this work recognized and we are deeply grateful to everyone who reads, shares, and supports what we are building. Independent voices matter.
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LYNN ALDRICH
ROMANCE AND REALITY WILL KISS ONE ANOTHER
Royal Projects
There’s something deeply satisfying about this show. At first glance, the work pulls you in with this sense of lush preservation and domestic beauty, but then you realize Lynn Aldrich is building these scenes out of garden hoses, rain gutters, cleaning supplies, and the quiet debris of consumer life. It’s sharp, funny, and unexpectedly emotional without ever trying too hard.
We loved this show. @lynnaldrich_art brings the kind of insight and lived perspective that only comes with time, and it feels really good seeing her get her flowers. Go see this show.
On view through June 6 at @royaleprojects
Congratulations to our dear friend Gary Baseman (@garybaseman ) on the opening of his newest exhibition, Off The Menu, inside the iconic Johnie’s Coffee Shop at Fairfax and Wilshire.
The work is so lovely in person, and stepping inside Johnie’s feels like walking into another era entirely. Paired with Gary’s signature whimsy and charm, it’s a genuinely delightful experience. Highly recommend.
Opening weekend festivities coincide with the opening of the new Wilshire/Fairfax Metro station, with music, performances, and community celebrations happening throughout the weekend. The exhibition remains on view through June 14. 🌟
The FEATURED PICK in this week’s @13thingsla is… Analia Saban: Data Center and Tacita Dean: Eclipse Drawings open Saturday, May 9, 5-8pm at Gemini G.E.L. Saban remixes digital-age neuro-entrails into new patterns that make both more sense and less, thinking through the nebulous wet-tech infrastructure of the information economy—circuit boards, cooling systems, and server racks—in meticulously debossed paper and tactile ink. Dean captures the astronomical friction of the 2024 total solar eclipse through a suite of lithographs that prioritize the erratic, atmospheric shifts of the celestial event over its operatically cliche climax. On view in West Hollywood through September 4.
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@13thingsla : May 6
Extrapolations for your art calendar
This week art is staking out a more expansive terrain—moving through and beyond the galleries to radiate across the stage, screen, and even the sky. Find gallery exhibitions that pull apart the armature of reality at Gemini G.E.L., Philosophical Research Society, Art/Space 114, Richard Heller Gallery, Tierra del Sol Gallery, Don’t Look Projects, and Shoshana Wayne Gallery; plus art-infused dance, performance, avant-garde animation, and more at The Wallis, ICA LA, Clockshop, MAK Center, Fais-Do-Do, and then it’s back to PRS for a suitably unhinged Mothers Day.
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What a beautiful Sunday afternoon at artist Robin Raznick’s studio, Robin’s Nest, co-hosted by Shana Nys Dambrot.
I love a good art salon ✨ We need more of these gatherings.
Robin’s work blew my mind. Learning she also grew up in the Hollywood Hills, there’s a real familiarity in her color palette and the specificity of those hills. The technique is highly skilled. The ceramics are off the hook.
Can’t wait for the next one.
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The FEATURED PICK in this week’s 13ThingsLA is…Our Fantabulously Furry Feline Friends opens Saturday, May 2, 6-10pm at Thinkspace. The insidious appeal of pictures of cats survives its internet-exhausted ubiquity in this sprawling survey of some 50 global artistic perspectives—a collection that treats the feline form as the versatile chimera, subject deserving of technical rigor, and site of enduring mythological archetype that it is. On view in West Adams through May 23. Read more and subscribe today to never miss a thing: /p/13thingsla-april-29
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We got a sneak peek at Emily Marchand’s solo show, River to River, before it hits the road to OCHI Idaho.
These large-scale ceramic tile vignettes carry an unspoken language, the one we have with nature, with animals, even the small overlooked things. Playful, yes, but the work can go as deep as you want. It feels like coming back to yourself, with a little help from your surroundings.
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The FEATURED REVIEW in this week’s 13ThingsLA is… Rachel Lachowicz at Shoshana Wayne Gallery. When we previewed this exhibition’s opening a few weeks ago, I made reference to Lachowicz’s 30-year career, especially “her provocative deployment of a painterly palette [literally] made of lipstick and eye shadow—the better to expose and undermine the pernicious ubiquity of patriarchal power,” and the show does not disappoint in that regard. The refractive depth of the wax-based mediums, some of which retain their faint aromas even after all this time, and the richness of this most arresting of hues at that scale is also as alluring and sharp as ever—maybe more so… On view in West Adams through May 23; shoshanawayne.com. —SND
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Last night felt rare for LA, dark and cold, the kind of night that usually warns you.
Then you walk into FLAGS by Nicolas Grenier at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles and it flips, color, geometry, light cutting through shadow.
And somehow it still feels like a warning, just coming from the work instead of the sky.
The symbolism sets the frame. The color does the talking. It’s electric.
@grenier.nicolas FLAGS on view at @luisdejesuslosangeles through 6/6
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