Visit the LA Art Show 2013 during this weekend

During this weekend take the family with you and go visit the LA Art Show 2013.
The event provides a comprehensive art experience offered by The Modern & Contemporary; The Historic & Traditional; The Vintage Poster and by The IFPDA Los Angeles Print Fair.

Now in its 18th year, the LA Art Show features some known galleries from around the world and a complete programme that includes lectures, tours, special exhibits, and must-attend after parties.

The event takes place at the LA Convention Center/South Hall J and K and can be visited this Saturday January 26 (11am - 7pm) and Sunday January 27 (11am - 5pm)
Ticket price for one day (general admissons) is $20 with $5 discount when purchased online.

Last year, the event, which is the longest running venue for contemporary, modern, historic and traditional art in the country, hosted more than 100 prominent art galleries and drew more than 50,000 visitors with its two-show concept that distinctly separated modern and contemporary works from historical and traditional works.
The city of Los Angeles is a world reference in the arts in its various forms, represented in its over 300 museums, music festivals and by dozens of distinct ethnic communities. All combined with a perfect weather and one of the world's largest economies.

Los Angeles Art Show 2012

The 17th annual edition of the Los Angeles Art Show will take place during this month and will present exciting modifications from its previous editions.

Now under the management of Art Miami, the art fair will debut two separate shows, the LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary and the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Traditional and Contemporary. Both shows will take place January 18 - 22, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in West Halls A and B.

The LA Art Show: Modern & Contemporary, aims to showcase not only the works of famous artists such as Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, David Hockney, Fernando Botero and Roy Lichtenstein, but also to give the opportunity to emerging artists to show their art to the public.
Contemporary art galleries, dealers and collectors will have the chance to trade information and ideas that may lead to future partnerships.
Video installations, performance pieces and mixed media installations will be some of the art projects present at the show, as well as curated special exhibitions, tours and lectures.

As for the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic and Traditional, it will be focused in offering high quality works of representational art, including pre-20th century Impressionism, plein air paintings and drawings. A selection of contemporay realism will also be included.
This show does not pretend to exhibit a particular art period, but to provide contact with traditional art for those who appreciate it, independently of when it was completed.

Following last year's program, also the annual IFPDA Print Fair will take place in conjuction with the Los Angeles Art Show.
The 27th edition will offer a comprehensive look at Prints in all techniques, including drypoint, etching, engraving, lithography, mezzotint and woodcut.
Dürer, Whistler, Diebenkorn and Ruscha are some of the artists whose works can be found.

With prices ranging from under $500 to more than $50,000, visitors will have the chance to observe and purchase works from different periods and movements, featuring a broad spectrum that will include Old Masters, German Expressionist, antique and modern Japanese, 18th and 19th-century European, 19th-century American, American Regionalist, and Latin American.

Another special ingredient will be the International Vintage Poster Fair, joining the Los Angeles Fine Art Show this year and showing an outstanding selection of 100 years of vintage posters. Poster styles include: Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Mid-century Modern dating from the 1890's Belle Époque to the stylized 1930s, and on through the Atomic Age.
All posters on display will be the original lithographic advertising pieces that were created through the ages to be posted on the street.

All three shows will launch with an Opening Night Premiere Party on January 18, supporting Art of Elysium and its project Bringing Art to Kids and Kids to Art. This project makes possible for special children to participate in school visits to the Getty Museum and enjoy other artistic activities, which are important for their personal development.

The 17th edition of LA Art Show will take place on January 19‐22, 2012 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, West Halls A and B.
General admission is $20 and will provide entrance for the three shows.
Ticket information and purchase is available on this page.

Los Angeles Art Show 2011

Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management, the Los Angeles Art Show 2011 will feature over 100 international exhbitiors, and will include film screenings, live performance art, special exhibit spaces, book signing, and a special events program.

The Chinese Art will be in focus during this 16th edition of the LA Art Show 2011, with a special program featuring Chinese art with accompanying lecture series.
A special exhibit, ‘Three Walkers – Crossing Over’ presented by Guangzhou’s 53 Art Museum, curated and sponsored by the Asian art magazines Art Gallery Magazine and Gallery Sights will feature celebrated artists Feng Feng, Liu Qing-yuan, and Qin Jin. Additionally, The Los Angeles Art Show will showcase a significant number of participating Chinese galleries, most of them will display works outside of China for the first time. Their inclusion will provide attendees with a remarkable opportunity to see what’s really trendy in Asian Art.

China Today will feature a lecture on Contemporary Chinese art led by artist, Tao Dong Dong and a screening of the 2006 documentary, “The Rising Tide” which provides a ‘living sense’of China’s Contemporary art scene.
With the creation of China Today, the fair will offer fresh insights into the contemporary reflection of China’s strong visual arts traditions and their influence the art world.

Included in the Los Angeles Art Show 2011 Special Exhibitions will be: "The Sister Cities of Los Angeles International Art", "Vox Humana", "Flora Kao’s Ghost Grove", presented by the Los Angeles Art Association, and "Rarely/Unseen", a private collection of photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

In the same way of last year's edition, the LA Art Show 2011 will open in conjunction with the 26th Annual Los Angeles Fine Print Fair, organized by the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA), which will offer collectors and art lovers a comprehensive look at prints in all techniques.

Visitors will have an opportunity to view and purchase fine prints from across a broad spectrum of Old Master, German Expressionist, antique and modern Japanese, 18th and 19th-century European, 19th-century American, American Regionalist, Latin-American, and Modern works to Contemporary masterworks and new editions.

The 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show Opening Night Premiere Party, taking place on the 19th of January, 2011, will benefit The Art of Elysium, permiting it to expand its program to bring arts to critically ill hospitalized children, continuing to produce original artistic workshops, as well as increase substantially the number of school children who visit the Getty through the Getty Museum’s fully subsidized Title One bus transportation program. This program ensures that as many students as possible from throughout Los Angeles can visit the Getty and experience its collection and the site through guided and self-guided visits, also including architecture and garden tours.

The Los Angeles Art Show takes place on January 19-23, 2011 (20-23 general public) at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015.

General admission to the Los Angeles Art Show is $20. Opening Night Premiere Party: Wednesday, January 19, 2011. Tickets are $125 and $500.

New mobile technology, the free Los Angeles Art Show iPhone app powered by Collectrium, will allow visitors to point their iPhone at any registered artwork exhibited at the fair and add their own notes, bookmark for later, instantly receive extensive information on artist and piece, contact the gallery, or share with friends via Facebook, Twitter, and email.

It willl also permit to view the entire catalogue on their smart phone, read all the programming and scheduling information about the show, and see a map of the fair.

To download this app for free, visit iTunes and type in Collectrium or visit www.collectrium.com/iphone.