Frieze Los Angeles Diary: hockey hotties, roaming Rami and Simon sells – The Art Newspaper

Pucker up

One of many buzziest works at Felix Artwork Truthful is a portray exhibiting a scene in Heated Rivalry, the steamy Canadian streaming hit. Following the romantic relationship between two closeted skilled hockey gamers, the six-episode collection has made in a single day stars of the leads Connor Storrie and Hudson Williams. At Megan Mulrooney’s leafy poolside cottage, the Austin-based artist RF. Alvarez’s portray A Softness (2026) depicts a young scene of Storrie and Williams straight from the present. Alvarez’s work renders queer life, usually within the American Southwest, in Outdated Masters-influenced scenes. He turned to Heated Rivalry for inspiration whereas creating new work for Felix, his vendor Mulrooney tells The Artwork Newspaper. “We have been speaking about this cultural second we’re in, the place [the show] actually resonates not solely with homosexual males, however with girls,” Mulrooney says. “Telling a narrative about queer love—about love that’s forbidden—actually touches his coronary heart.”

Seeing stars

Celebrities of stage and display confirmed up once more on the primary public day of Frieze Los Angeles on Friday. Among the many A-listers noticed within the aisles have been Bridesmaids comedienne Maya Rudolph, Legislation & Order: Organized Crime detective Christopher Meloni, Bohemian Rhapsody star Rami Malek and comic and collector David Alan Grier. Artwork-world celebrities at Frieze included Neville Wakefield, Alison and Betye Saar, Michael Govan and Edythe Broad. We have been particularly tickled when Thelma Golden, the director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, excitedly stopped one among our workers members carrying a Studio Museum tote bag to take a photograph. In the meantime, over at Publish-Truthful, Beastie Boy Mike D may very well be seen absorbing the nippiness vibes.

Gavel for good causes

Simon de Pury led a riveting stay public sale inside a non-public Hollywood membership on Thursday night, as celebrities and artwork luminaries gathered to fundraise for victims of each Jamaica’s Hurricane Melissa and the Los Angeles wildfires. Titled “Get Up Stand Up: Artists For Jamaica and Los Angeles” and organised by Group Organized Aid Effort (Core), the public sale featured tons by Caribbean artists together with Alvaro Barrington and Tavares Strachan, in addition to works by Urs Fischer and Henry Taylor, and one five-night keep at Diplo’s non-public compound, Pompey, in Jamaica. After a energetic bidding struggle with prime mannequin Winnie Harlow, the famed music producer took house a 2024 Savannah Baker {photograph} for $8,000. Fischer’s portray Lifeboat (2024) offered for $200,000.

The Birds’-eye view

Artwork-world cognoscenti ascended to the West Hollywood hilltop often called “The Birds” on Wednesday evening to rejoice the Serpentine Americas Basis on the house of members and longtime supporters Sybil Robson Orr and Matthew Orr. The Serpentine’s indefatigable creative director Hans Ulrich Obrist and chief govt Bettina Korek obtained excessive reward from Robson Orr, whereas the philanthropists Maja Hoffmann and Eugenio López Alonso, the curators Beatrix Ruf and Piper Marshall, the auctioneer Simon de Pury, and artists together with Miles Greenberg, Lita Albuquerque, Suzanne Lacey, Mary Weatherford, Refik Anadol, Alex Israel and Jonas Wooden basked within the shifting glow of a James Turrell Skyspace set up. The Artwork Newspaper’s representatives spent the evening sneaking meals to the Orrs’ pup.

Rob Pruitt-free flea

As Los Angeles gallery-goers made the rounds alongside Western Avenue on Tuesday evening—and a military of black-vested valets milled about exterior David Zwirner’s Luc Tuymans opening—the artist Rob Pruitt’s fan-favourite Flea Market returned to the town for a two-day-only extravaganza, hosted by the vendor James Fuentes. Reasonably than presenting within the traditional white-cube gallery, although, dozens of artists supplied their wares on folding tables in an empty former furnishings retailer. Savvy buyers might buy inexpensive works instantly from native artists, like Ry Rocklen, who took half within the Pruitt’s first Los Angeles flea and was returning with one other version of his intricately detailed porcelain tiles, solid from his private clothes. Sadly, Pruitt himself couldn’t make it, after snowy climate left him caught in New York.