Did anybody notice Santa Monica has an airport? We did not both. Apparently it has been used since 1917, thus making it one of many oldest regularly working airports in the entire United States. Fascinating. However moreover it being a unusual enjoyable truth and part of aviation historical past, the tiny single-runway hub served because the backdrop for one in all Los Angeles’s most eclectic occasions, Frieze Los Angeles.
On a dreary, overcast day, Day 1 of the artwork truthful commenced in a windswept a part of Santa Monica, a line of ubers and black automobiles with VIPs stretched out ready on the entrance. From throughout the globe collectors, artists, curators, and the art-curious gathered in two enormous tents to see what’s subsequent on the planet of up to date artwork and tradition. An offshoot of Frieze Journal, Frieze was conceptualized as a world artwork truthful by the title’s founders, with its inaugural occasion going down in London in 2003. Twenty years later, the multi-day showcase is likely one of the premier artwork occasions of the business, with festivals in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Seoul. This yr’s Frieze truthful in Los Angeles included over 120 galleries presenting their works: There was a touring marching band with an accompanying dance line taking part in out “Swag Surf” (from efficiency artist Autumn Breon), cutesy inflatables the dimensions of a small constructing (from ceramicist Alake Shilling) and bronze tortillas in a Chevy cargo van (an exhibition from artist Ruben Ochoa). And alongside these thought-provoking and memorable moments, was some nice style.
