NewsArt fairs
Felix brings the in-person art fair back to Los Angeles
The fair, hosted at the glitzy Hollywood Roosevelt hotel, features 29 L.A. based galleries and is bolstered by the city's own gallery weekend and the Frieze online viewing room
NewsArt market
Frieze Los Angeles 2021 is cancelled, new venue for 2022
The fair will move from Paramount Studios to a tent on Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, for its next edition in February
NewsArt market
Frieze Los Angeles bids goodbye to Paramount Studios as art fair is postponed to July
Social distancing rules have limited the number of people on film sets creating a movie production backlog
NewsRacism in the art world
How the art industry is grappling with its systemic race inequality
Galleries, fairs and auction houses are issuing solidarity statements and re-evaluating the diversity of their staffs. But "performative wokeness” will not fix the market’s whiteness
PreviewFrieze Los Angeles
Frieze Los Angeles exhibitors challenge rules preventing them from showing at other fairs
Galleries lament terms that mean they cannot participate in multiple fairs, even when they have different styles and audiences
NewsFrieze
Frieze shake-up: former media boss chosen as company's first CEO
Changes are afoot with both the fairs and the magazine as majority shareholder Endeavor make plans for the future
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Frieze announces new award for emerging filmmakers
The winner of the $10,000 Deutsche Bank Frieze Los Angeles Film Award will be announced at the second LA edition of the fair
NewsAppointments & departures
Frieze LA director Bettina Korek appointed chief executive of Serpentine Galleries
Los Angeles art veteran takes the reins at the London institution in its 50th anniversary year
NewsArt market
Frieze shareholder Endeavor returns $400m investment to Saudi Arabia
Sport and entertainment group severs ties with the kingdom’s leaders after murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
NewsJean-Michel Basquiat
How a protest poster by David Wojnarowicz may have inspired Basquiat's Defacement
Artist's 1983 depiction of an infamous case of police brutality goes on display at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in June
FeatureLos Angeles
Wearing its art on its sleeve: Los Angeles' enduring passion for murals
The city’s street paintings, vehicles for protest since the 1930s, continue to be a flashpoint
NewsExhibitions
Hammer Museum dishes up a feast for Allen Ruppersberg's first major US show in 30 years
The exhibition includes a major new 13-hour video
NewsSatellite Fairs
Frieze Los Angeles brings satellite fairs into its orbit
A local stalwart celebrates its tenth edition, a New Yorker goes West, and a young upstart sets out its stall at the Roosevelt Hotel
BlogDiary
Frieze LA diary: bright stars, sexy architecture and Kenny Schachter’s hotel dalliance
Plus, an art gallery "rap battle"
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Alex Freedman
We speak to the co-founder of Freedman Fitzpatrick gallery in Los Angeles about coding, George Bush and mistaking dealers for magicians
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles
What to buy at Frieze Los Angeles? Lisa Anne Auerbach offers psychic art advice
Artist's performance for the fair's projects programme aims to unshroud doubts around collecting and the art market
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Action! Cinematic works abound at Frieze Los Angeles as galleries go all out for glamour
First LA edition of the British fair focuses on local artists and pieces that speak to a Hollywood crowd
NewsFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Done deals: what's selling in Los Angeles this week
Follow our tweets tagged #TANsalestally for notable purchases from Frieze LA
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Cheech Marin
The actor and comedian tells us what he's bought and why he loves it
BlogFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Frieze LA diary: Leibovitz’s photo finish, Destroyer smashes it and a mushroom-powered rocket (doesn't) take off
Plus, Suzanne Jackson’s modest gallery revival
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Max Hooper Schneider: 'my fantasy army of marine-mammal people, across all genders'
The artist dives deep to create a lurid theatre from biological forms for his Frieze Los Angeles Projects commission
InterviewFrieze Los Angeles 2019
Confessions of a dealer: Brian Faucette
We speak to the senior director of Night Gallery in Los Angeles about art world small talk, forgotten studio visits and the resurgence of photography
FeatureCurators
Globetrotting curators: the international search for art
Leading curators on their travel schedules, how technology shapes their visions—and whether they are aware of their carbon footprints
NewsCommercial galleries
David Kordansky doubles gallery space and expands diverse artist roster
Last year, the LA gallery took on Michael Williams, Fred Eversley, Huma Bhabha and Lauren Halsey as well as the estates of Tom of Finland and Betty Woodman
InterviewCollecting
Collector's Eye: an interview with Wallis Annenberg
The Los Angeles-based philanthropist tells us what she's bought and why
PreviewExhibitions
Lucas Blalock gives ‘pathetic’ objects a new lease of life at the ICA LA
More than 20 photographs are included in the artist’s first solo exhibition at a US museum
ReviewBiennials & festivals
Hits and misses at Palm Springs's second Desert X biennial
Some half-baked works mean this year’s event fails to live up to the promise of the first edition
NewsFrieze Los Angeles
Art and entertainment worlds cosy up at Frieze Los Angeles
Having for years viewed each other with suspicion, relations between agencies and galleries may start warming up
NewsArt fairs
Will Frieze Los Angeles succeed where others have failed?
Shrugging away doubts, the city’s art dealers are cautiously optimistic of the fair’s future
NewsArt market
Life lessons: what the art market learned from 2018
Georgina Adam speaks with three leading art world figures on the key events of last year and what 2019 may hold
PreviewThe Year Ahead 2019
Three new fairs not to miss in 2019
From Singapore and Taiwan to Los Angeles, new events attempt to break into world's fastest growing art markets
NewsArt market
Frieze shareholder Endeavor ‘in process’ of pulling out of $400m Saudi deal
Hollywood entertainment agency intends to return entire investment after murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi
NewsArt market
Fairytale of New York in La-La land—artists to take over film set at Frieze Los Angeles
For Frieze Projects, artists including Barbara Kruger and Paul McCarthy will create site-specific works within Paramount Pictures Studios's fake New York city
NewsArt market
Hollywood stars and art world A-listers come out in support of Frieze Los Angeles
Salma Hayek, Tobey Maguire and Serena Williams are among those on the fair’s host committee, while Gagosian, Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth and Ropac will exhibit
NewsArt market
Frieze to bring West Coast buzz to New York
Art fair hopes to present unified voice from coast to coast
NewsFrieze
Frieze Los Angeles will launch next February
Annual contemporary art fair to open at the Paramount Pictures Studios on Valentine's Day