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TKO Group CEO Ari Emanuel went on a buying spree at his Frieze Los Angeles art fair on Thursday. Zuffa LLC<\/p>\nAri Emanuel\u00a0went on a buying spree at his Frieze Los Angeles art fair on Thursday.<\/p>\n
On the opening VIP day, Emanuel and his designer wife\u00a0Sarah Staudinger\u00a0picked up works by\u00a0Sam Gilliam and William H. Johnson from Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, a 1989 Keith Haring from Gladstone Gallery and three tapestries by artist\u00a0Yvonne Wells\u00a0from Fort Gansevoort \u2014 which was showing for the first time at Frieze and had a plum spot right by the fair\u2019s entrance. (The tapestries were of Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson, we hear.)\u00a0<\/p>\n
Also spotted perusing the booths were industry power players including\u00a0Mike Ovitz\u00a0and\u00a0Scooter Braun\u00a0as well as\u00a0Red Hot Chili Peppers rocker\u00a0Anthony Kiedis, \u201cHeated Rivalry\u201d star\u00a0Fran\u00e7ois Arnaud, Joe Montana,\u00a0 Emma Watson, Timothy Olyphant, Christoph Waltz\u00a0and\u00a0director\u00a0Todd Phillips.<\/p>\n
The night before the opening, Emanuel \u2014 who now owns Frieze via his company Mari \u2014 and Staudinger hosted a reception at the Chateau Marmont for guests including\u00a0Orlando Bloom, Rachel Sennott, Dree Hemingway, Winnie Harlow, Bill Maher, Scout Willis, Devandra Banhart, Nick Kroll, Brian Grazer\u00a0and more.<\/p>\n
TKO Group CEO Ari Emanuel went on a buying spree at his Frieze Los Angeles art fair on Thursday. Zuffa LLC<\/p>\n
Staudinger\u2019s fashion line, Staud, unveiled a limited edition bag collaboration at the event with artist\u00a0Merikokeb Berhanu.<\/p>\n
Emanuel was also seen at the fair powwowing with\u00a0Jeffrey Deitch\u00a0\u2014\u00a0his art advisor and the former director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles \u2014 whose booth was showing works by\u00a0Sharif Farrag, UCLA\u2019s hottest MFA student just a couple years ago.<\/p>\n
Deitch told us this week that in Los Angeles, it\u2019s difficult to get some collectors out to the city\u2019s galleries because they don\u2019t want to leave their beautiful homes in Brentwood, Holmby Hills or Malibu.<\/p>\n
But for Frieze, \u201cEverybody comes out it\u2019s like a big party\u2026 you will have more of the major art collectors in Los Angeles \u2014 and they want to see each other. It\u2019s the one time of year you can say hello to all the big collectors. It\u2019s an important social function,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
As more of a local affair, the price points can be lower than Art Basel rivals. One art advisor mused at Frieze, \u201cHere, the most expensive work is something like $10 million. At Basel, you can have Picassos going for $50 million.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gagosian gallery reported brisk sales of works by Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, Jonas Wood and a very timely painting, \u201cParamount Pictures,\u201d by Alex Israel.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The people-watching was as good as the art, and attendees hung out at picnic tables chowing down on food from Roberta\u2019s, Kismet Rotisserie, Sunday Gravy and other spots while they rubbed elbows with artists.<\/p>\n
Popular painter\u00a0Oliver Clegg\u00a0could barely make it to the fair\u2019s entrance at the Santa Monica Airport, he was so besieged by friends and fans at the outdoor tables. The artist had just put on a fun book event at\u00a0Arman Naf\u00e9ei\u2018s West Hollywood newsstand-turned-gallery Are We On Air?, where Clegg also sold instantly collectible T-shirts with the Erewhon logo that said \u201cErehead\u201d \u2014 plus other clever riffs ion popular LA brands like In-N-Out and the Chateau Marmont.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Are We On Air? has a block party tonight before it closes and moves to a new location next door. Naf\u00e9ei was also seen at Frieze on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ari Emanuel\u00a0went on a buying spree at his Frieze Los Angeles art fair on Thursday. On the opening…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196589,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[7,48,52,51,47,50,49,91617],"class_list":["post-196588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-california","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-page-six-hollywood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}