Frieze Art Fair Unveils Artists, Films and Talks for Inaugural L.A. Event
The fair features numberous members of the UCLA Arts community.
The Frieze Art Fair is coming to Los Angeles for the first time this February. Many members of the UCLA Arts commmunity will be featured in Frieze programs including Department of Art Professor Barbara Kruger and Professor Emeritus Paul McCarthy, alumni Wu Tsang and Rafa Esparza, former faculty member John Baldessari, and Kristy Edmunds, who heads UCLA's Center for the Art of Performance. The fair will also engage with Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018, which will be on view at the Hammer Museum.
"Works and happenings paying homage to pop culture forces from 'Name That Tune' and The Grateful Dead to 'GLOW,' plus talks with the likes of Susan Nimoy and Werner Herzog, will roll out at the Paramount Studios-based fair — and across the city — in February.Three weeks before the launch of Los Angeles' first Frieze art fair, the event's team — led by Frieze Fairs director Victoria Siddall and Frieze LA executive director Bettina Korek — gathered at LACMA this morning to unveil plans for on- and off-site events and programs, as well more details about the art that will be presented in by the fair's roughly 70 exhibitors. Work on view throughout the fair will include some of the world's top artists as well as iconic, influential and up-and-coming California-based artists.
The inaugural Frieze LA is set for Feb. 15 to 17 at Paramount Pictures Studios, with an invitation-only preview on Valentine's Day and related events and festivities throughout the city, some as early as the weekend prior. It is a closely watched Westward expansion for the contemporary art fair that launched in London 15 years ago and in New York in 2012 — and in which Endeavor became majority investor in 2016."— , January 23
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