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The 16th Annual Los Angeles Art Show returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center from January 19 - 23. Presented by the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA) and KR Martindale Show Management, this encyclopedic art event will feature more than 100 international exhibitors, an engaging lecture series, film screening, special events program, live performance art, book signing, and special events program, live performance art, book signing, and special exhibit spaces.
China, a powerhouse of Asia Art will be the focus of the 2011 Show. A special program featuring Chinese art with accompanying lecture series, will be a highlight of this year's fair. A special exhibit, 'Three Walkers - Crossing Over' presented by Guangzhou's 53 Art Museum, is curated and sponsored by the prominent Asian art magazines Art Gallery Magazine and Gallery Sights and features celebrated artists Feng Feng, Liu Qing-yaun, and Qiu Jin.
The Los Angeles Art Show will showcase a significant number of participating Chinese galleries, a majority of whom have never displayed works outside of China. With the creation of China Today, the fair provides fresh insights into the contemporary reflection of China's strong visual arts traditions and offers a rare window into the international climate.
The Los Angeles Art Show will kick off with an Opening Night Premiere Party on Wednesday, January 19. Proceeds from the Opening Night Premiere Party will enable official preview beneficiary The Art of Elysium to expand its program to bring arts to critically ill hospitalized children and increase substantially the number of school children who visit the Getty through the Getty Museum's Education Department program for the Title One School visits. The Opening Night Premiere Party provides a first-look at the Los Angeles Art Show. More than $1 million of artworks were sold during the opening night at the 2010 show.
Highlighting Programs A lecture by Tao Dong Dong will take place on Thursday, January 20 at 2 pm. Contemporary Art in China will discuss Tao Dong Dong's work and the experience of being a contemporary artists in today's China. The Rising Tide - film screening will take place on Thursday, January 20 at 6 pm. Shot in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen in the summer of 2006, this documentary, directed by Robert Adanto, explores China's march toward the future through the works of some their most talented photographers and video artists.
Four Stones for Kanemitsu - film screening will take place on Friday, January 21 at 4 pm. This Academy Award nominated documentary, directed by Terry Sanders exquisitely explores the collaboration between abstract expressionist painter and print maker Matsumi Kanemitsu (1922 - 1992) and master printer Serge Lozingot as they create a four-color lithograph in Los Angeles.
The Los Angeles Art Show takes place on January 19-23 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Los Angeles Art Show programming is included with show admission. For additional information about the Los Angeles Art Show, to register for a lecture or purchase online tickets, visit www.laartshow.com.
General admission is $20. General show hours: January 20 - 22, 11 am - 8 pm, Sunday, January 23, 11 am - 5 pm Curator-guided gallery tours in Chinese and Korean will be provided. Tickets for Opening Night Premiere Party on Wednesday, January 19 at 7 pm, are $125 and $500. To purchase tickets, visit www.laartshow.com/premiereparty/
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