Frieze Los Angeles at Paramount Pictures Studios in Hollywood. Photograph by Casey Kelbaugh. Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops reported and written by Nate Freeman. If you have a tip, email Nate at [email protected]
After a year in which fairs got cancelled across the country, Frieze looks like the lone survivor. Come May, the fair company owned by Hollywood behemoth Shed, the fancy glass box at Hudson Yards with a terrifyingly expensive retractable door thing. Rules for entry are super strict—vaccine passport or PCR test required for entry—but for those who get in, the highlights are voluminous, as the big galleries are not holding back.