Did somebody notice Santa Monica has an airport? We did not both. It seems that it is been used since 1917, thus making it one of the vital oldest regularly working airports in all the United States. Attention-grabbing. However but even so it being a unusual amusing truth and part of aviation historical past, the tiny single-runway hub served because the backdrop for one in all Los Angeles’s maximum 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 vehicles with VIPs stretched out ready on the front. From around the globe creditors, artists, curators, and the art-curious accumulated in two massive tents to peer what is subsequent on the earth of modern artwork and tradition. An offshoot of Frieze Mag, Frieze was once conceptualized as a world artwork truthful by way of the name’s founders, with its inaugural match going down in London in 2003. 20 years later, the multi-day exhibit is without doubt one of the premier artwork occasions of the trade, with fairs in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Seoul. This 12 months’s Frieze truthful in Los Angeles integrated over 120 galleries presenting their works: There was once 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 development (from ceramicist Alake Shilling) and bronze tortillas in a Chevy shipment van (an exhibition from artist Ruben Ochoa). And along those thought-provoking and noteworthy moments, was once some nice model.
