The 3rd edition of the Felix art fair is to be held at downtown LA’s Roosevelt Hotel, from July 26–31, when Frieze was expected to be happening.
The event will be held at the outdoor cabana and in the ground-floor rooms opening onto the Roosevelt’s pool, which notably features a David Hockney work at its bottom due to the continuing Covid-19 Crisis. The event is to take place at the same time as the inaugural Gallery Weekend Los Angeles, organized by the fledgling Gallery Association of Los Angeles.
The news bodes well for the city, where museums were shut for a year from last spring due to the pandemic. Many of the museums opened with a limited capacity in April like the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum, the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Getty.
Others remained closed including the Broad, which is to open May 26, and the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, which will welcome visitors June 3. The gallery scene has been thriving by comparison, with galleries like the blue-chip David Zwirner and Nigeria’s Rele Gallery opening outposts there in the past year; and Gagosian snapping up the former Marciano Museum.