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Frieze Your Mind

Frieze week in L.A. has everything we love about the city itself—fresh, energetic works, attention-seeking hipsters, and poolside pop-ups. So what if it doesn’t always fit into a nice, neat art market narrative?

Frieze Los Angeles 2025
I was hoping Frieze L.A. would provide at least a glimpse of the state of the market at the moment. And it did, despite the lack of a trend to give the whole market coherence. Photo: Casey Kelbaugh/Courtesy of Frieze and CKA
Marion Maneker
February 21, 2025

After a quiet winter in the art market, I headed out to Frieze week in Los Angeles not expecting much. That’s mainly because we’ve had so little public evidence of where the art market stands lately. Still, I was hoping Frieze L.A. would provide at least a glimpse of the state of the market at the moment. And it did, despite the lack of a trend to give the whole market coherence.