Here’s Your Go-To Guide to All the Fairs Taking Place in Los Angeles During Frieze Week 2020

The art world descends on Tinseltown this week as the sophomore
edition of Frieze Los Angeles gets underway. Local galleries and museums have pulled out
all the stops to capture visitors’ attention. But
since Frieze, Felix, and other LA fairs are arguably the
center of it all this week, here is our guide to how to navigate
them. Good news for those of you who don’t want to spend all your
art-buying money on Uber: This time around, the fairs are more
concentrated and easier to travel between now that the Art Los
Angeles Contemporary has moved to Hollywood from Barker Hangar.
Happy fairgoing.

Frieze Los Angeles

When: February 13–16; Thursday, February
13, preview, invitation only; Friday, February 14, preview,
check ticket and invitation time; Saturday, February 15, 11 a.m.–7
p.m.; Sunday, February 16, 11 a.m.– 6 p.m.

Where: Paramount Pictures Studio

What to Know: The second edition of the anchor
fair, which attracted considerable buzz (not to mention celebrity cameos) in 2019,
features 70 international exhibitors, making it considerably more
manageable than the sprawling New York or London
editions. This year, the fair boasts a new curated
section dedicated to emerging art spaces in LA and
new
curators for Frieze Projects, which
returns to transform the Paramount backlot into an outdoor
artistic showcase.

On the backlot, keep an eye out for a collective dance
performance from Black Lives Matter co-founder and
artist Patrisse Cullors that invites visitors to
“participate and reclaim time, space, and energy,” according
to organizers. Other anticipated projects include those
by Lorna Simpson, Jibade-Khalil
Huffman, and Gary Simmons. Inside the fair, highlights
include new paintings by art star Avery Singer at Hauser & Wirth
and an immersive LED ceiling installation by James Turrell
presented by Pace and Kayne Griffin Corcoran.

Tickets: Admission to Frieze LA is not for
everyone. Tickets to the Friday preview range from $500 (including
a curated tour, magazine, and tote bag) to $175; general admission
on Saturday or Sunday is $125. Tickets to view the special programs
only (outside the tent) are $60 on Friday and $25 over the
weekend.

Art Los Angeles
Contemporary

When: February 13–16; Thursday,
February 13, opening reception, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.; Friday,
February 14, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, February 15, 11 a.m.–7
p.m.; Sunday, February 16, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

Where: Hollywood Athletic Club, 6525
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood

What to Know: After years on the far west
side of the city at Santa Monica’s Barker Hanger,
the 11th edition of the long-running Art Los Angeles
Contemporary fair is relocating to the historic Hollywood Athletic
Club on Sunset Boulevard. Although it has
lost a number of heavy-hitting exhibitors since the arrival of
Frieze LA, such as David Kordansky Gallery and Susanne
Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, this year’s lineup boasts 50
exhibitors from 11 countries, including New York’s the Hole and Los
Angeles’s Luis De Jesus. The fair will also
host independent publishers, special
projects, and on-site artist interventions.

Keep an eye out for a project by Gozié Ojini
presented by Court Space, a curatorial platform that pops up at Los
Angeles’s public and private sports courts. Ojini will present
installations and sculptures made from repurposed sports 
equipment, referencing the athletic history of the Club.

Tickets: $25 for a one-day pass; $30 for a
three-day pass; $65 for opening night

Felix Art
Fair

When: February 13–16; Thursday,
February 13, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., preview by invitation only; 6 p.m.–8
p.m., public preview; Friday, February 14, and Saturday,
February 15, 11 a.m.–8 p.m.; Sunday, February 16, 11 a.m.–4
p.m.

Where: The Hollywood Roosevelt, 7000 Hollywood
Blvd., Los Angeles

What to Know: If Frieze LA is the art-fair
equivalent of the Oscars, Felix is the Independent Spirit Awards.
The hip hotel fair, now in its sophomore year, was founded by
collector and television mogul Dean Valentine with art dealers
Mills Morán and Al Morán of Morán Morán gallery. Taking inspiration
from the historic Gramercy International Fair, which kicked off the
art-fair phenomenon in the mid-1990s, Felix invites dealers to set
up shop in individual hotel rooms. This year’s edition will feature
60 exhibitors from China, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico,
Poland, and the UK, bringing back a majority of last year’s
galleries and welcoming 25 new ones.

This time around, the fair has tweaked its structure to avoid
overcrowding near the entrance, which frustrated some visitors
during its debut. Felix is also hosting a series of special
projects organized by William J. Simmons that will appear in
the lobby, ballroom, and outdoor bungalows. Highlights include a
display of work by Judy Chicago selected by TV producer Jill
Soloway and a video by Martha Wilson that shows the artist
gradually transforming into Melania Trump.

Tickets: $25

Spring/Break Art Show

When: February 14–16; Friday, February 14, 11
a.m.–4 p.m., press preview and VIP afternoon first look, 4 p.m.–9
p.m., VIP opening night; Saturday, February 15, 11 a.m.–9 p.m.;
Sunday, February 16, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.

Where: Skylight ROW DTLA, 757 S
Alameda Street, Downtown Los Angeles

What to Know: You can expect a
freewheeling, immersive experience at this fair, which was founded
in New York in 2012 but expanded to LA last year to coincide with
Frieze. As in New York, the LA version offers curators a free space
to exhibit inside a disused urban building. (Transactions take
place online through the Spring/Break site, which takes a final cut
from the sales.) This year’s fair hosts 45 nearly exclusively Los
Angeles-based artists, curators, and artist-run spaces, all
responding to the fair’s 2020 theme, “In Excess.” By keeping
overhead costs for participants low, the fair hopes to encourage
experimentation, meaning you are more likely to see an ambitious
installation or new media work at Spring/Break than at some of the
week’s other fairs.

Tickets: $25–50

stARTup Art
Fair

When: February 14–16; Friday, February 14,
7 p.m.–10 p.m., opening night party; Saturday, February 15, 12
p.m.–9 p.m.; Sunday, February 16, 12 p.m.–7 p.m.

Where: The Kinney, 737 West Washington
Boulevard, Venice Beach

What to Know: The opening night party is
open to anyone with a general admission ticket ($15 in advance and
$20 at the door). The scrappy fair hosts more than 80 artists who
will transform the rooms and grounds of the Kinney Hotel in Venice
Beach with painting, photography, sculpture, and installation. In
addition to unrepresented artists, fair organizers give free
exhibition space to local community nonprofits who show their art
in hotel rooms or hallways, including Art Share LA,
the Los Angeles Center of
Photography, the Los Angeles Art
Association, and the Los Angeles
Children’s Project.

Tickets: $10–100

Art Palm Springs

When: February 13–17; Thursday, February 13, 5
p.m.–9 p.m., opening night preview, VIP ticket holders only;
Friday, February 14, 11 a.m.–7 p.m.; Saturday, February 15, and
Sunday, February 16, 11 a.m.–6 p.m.; Monday, February 17, 12
p.m.–5 p.m.

Where: Palm Springs Convention Center, 277
N Avenida Caballeros, Palm Springs

What to Know: If you are looking to take a trip
to the desert before or after Frieze Week, but can’t stand to be
too far away from an art fair, Art Palm Springs is for
you. The ninth edition of the fair, which coincides with Palm
Springs’ renowned “Modernism Week,” brings together 70
international art dealers with an emphasis on American
art. Eckert Fine Art, which presents work from founder Jane
Coats Eckert’s collection of 19th- and 20th-century American art,
is bringing works by Alexander Calder, while Swiss gallery Imago
Art will present Cy Twombly’s mixed-media piece Untitled (La
Compositioni) (1964) from the collection of Baron Giorgio
Franchetti.

Tickets: $25 for a day pass; $100 for the
VIP preview plus a four-day pass

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