https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBoQuAtX3I&t=85s When will there be another Golden Age in art? Are we living in the Golden Age, or a corporate age? Josh Baer sat down with Jeffrey Deitch for our second annual talk at Christie’s Los Angeles for LA Art Week, with...
Frieze Los Angeles 2023
The Baer Faxt investigates: is LA finally a market destination?
02.17.2023
When Frieze first announced it would launch a Los Angeles edition in 2019, there was some speculation that the fair would flop. Despite consecutive editions in London since 2003 and in New York since 2012, Los Angeles was as of yet unconquered frontier, one where...
What does it take to get into an art fair? Anthony Meier, ADAA president and Frieze LA committee member, tells all
02.14.2023
Anthony Meier, the president of the Art Dealers Association of America, has been art dealing on the West coast for nearly four decades, emerging in the early 1980s as a private advisor before opening a gallery in 1996. He recently moved his San Francisco gallery...
Is Los Angeles still an artist’s city? Artist Sayre Gomez gets candid about the city’s changing art world
02.14.2023
The American artist Sayre Gomez, best known for his hyper-realistic and at times dystopian paintings of everyday life in Los Angeles, has a heightened sense of what it means to be an LA artist. Gomez was born in Chicago and moved out West for his MFA at CalArts, where...