This issue’s cover features a picture of the ocean by Californian photographer Colin Dodgson. Like the rest of the magazine’s contents, it was planned before wildfires devastated areas of Los Angeles in January and upended the lives of tens of thousands of Angelenos, many members of the art community among them. Frieze was proud to support the creation of the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund in response to this tragedy, and the fair opens this week in a spirit of support, community and rebuilding. I hope that the possibility of recovery is felt across Frieze Los Angeles 2025.
Meanwhile, this issue seeks again to catalog and champion the disparate creative souls who make this city so uniquely itself. When a friend tells Mary, a character in Eve Babitz’s ‘The Garden of Allah’ (1977), to skip town to avoid a rumorede arthquake, she responds: ‘I wouldn’t leave LA if the whole place tipped over into the ocean’. It’s the city’s people, I’m going to guess, who make her so determined to stay.
- Matthew McLean, Creative Director, Frieze Studios & Editor, Frieze Week
