LA Art Show 2012

By Mark Westall • 27 January 2012
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Last but not least of the three Los Angeles Art fair we went to the LA Art Show is the biggest and the most formal. The art galleries are more traditional and safe in the art work they show it’s much more like the other large art fairs around the world.

You will spot the names you see at frieze, Miami, Armory, Basel etc Safe Investments.

Old ladies with hats, well known names on the walls ; Man Ray, Jasper Johns and again multiples of Damien Hirst . But an interesting development was the large influx of artists and galleries from China.

www.laartshow.com/

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Mark Westall

Mark Westall has spent over thirty years creating platforms for culture. Since founding FAD Magazine in 2006, he's dedicated his career to documenting, championing and questioning contemporary art through publishing, criticism and conversation. As founder and editorial director of one of the UK's leading independent contemporary art publications, he has interviewed artists, reviewed exhibitions and covered the ideas shaping contemporary visual culture for more than two decades. He also founded Art of Conversation, Despoke and FAD Bazaar, and regularly serves as a judge for international art and photography awards.