Join Frieze and Tod’s for a breakfast reception hosted by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Director of the Vincent Price Art Museum and and Co-Curator of Frieze Projects Los Angeles 2020, and Frieze Los Angeles Executive Director Bettina Korek. The reception celebrates George Rodriguez’s cover story for Frieze Week magazine and his retrospective ‘Double Vision’ at the Vincent Price Art Museum. Breakfast refreshments will be served, plus enjoy an exclusive preview of Tod’s Spring Summer 2020 & Ready to Wear Collection, with the chance to shop on the day.
Pilar Tompkins Rivas is the director of Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) at East Los Angeles College, a collecting institution with diverse holdings including Pre-Columbian, Native American, and modern and contemporary art. Specializing in Latinx and Latin American contemporary art, she has organized dozens of exhibitions throughout the United States, Colombia, Egypt, France, and Mexico. At VPAM she has spearheaded partnerships with the Smithsonian, LACMA, and the Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens, and has worked collaboratively with East Los Angeles College to launch a new museum studies certificate program, aimed at broadening access for people of color into the museum field. Prior to her appointment as director, she served as the coordinator of curatorial initiatives at LACMA, where she co-directed two Mellon-funded curatorial fellowship and academic practicum programs for the museum.
Breakfast will feature beverages from Cha Cha Matcha.
As this event has limited capacity, please kindly RSVP to LAevents@frieze.com. Your RSVP will be confirmed via email should they be successful and are not guaranteed.