Home of First Oscars Ceremony Hosts Art Fair Around Hockney Pool
- Felix is among at least six art fairs in L.A. area this week
- City’s once sleepy art scene is now ‘firing on all cylinders’
Source: Felix art fair
Three months after David Hockney’s swimming pool canvas sold for $90 million, the art world is gathering around an actual pool the British artist painted at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel.
Hockney decorated the pool’s bottom with blue swirls in 1987, almost six decades after the historic Los Angeles building hosted the first Academy Awards ceremony in 1929. This week, the surrounding cabanas will exhibit works by local and international artists as part of a new art fair called Felix.