What kind of place is an airport? A place between local and global, where languages mingle, wide vistas open up. As the location for Frieze Los Angeles, this week Santa Monica Airport will become a place of creativity too: with over 120 galleries, Focus and Spotlight sections, and Frieze Projects by the likes of Ruben Ochoa (p. 24), Alake Shilling and Jennifer West, among others — a collaboration with the Art Production Fund, whose Director Casey Fremont is a recent LA arrival (p.27). As well as showcasing this activity, and other highlights of the week across the city (like the survey of Simone Forti, of which Gillian Garcia went behind the scenes to create our cover image), this issue celebrates the art of the fair’s new environs: from Don Bachardy (p.10) and the late Chris Burden (p.8) to Jay Ezra Nayssan (p.14), curator of the off-site program ‘Against the Edge’. As Nayssan explains in his guide (p.16), stories of exile and reinvention sprawl throughout the Westside: an area crisscrossed by comings and goings. Like an airport, perhaps? In any case, I can’t wait to explore it more.
—Matthew McLean, Editor and Creative Lead, Frieze Studios
