Felix Art Fair

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Established in 2018, Felix is an art fair created with the intention to foster intimate experiences that prioritize conversation, collaboration, and community. The 2025 edition takes place February 19 – 23, 2025 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Public hours are Thursday through Saturday, from 11am – 7pm, and Sunday, 11am - 5pm. Purchase a ticket here.

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Uncle Paulie's Deli was founded by Paulie James + Jon Buscemi - long time friends with cherished memories from their New York neighborhood delis. When they each made their way to LA, they discovered their neighborhood deli was missing and within a matter of months, Uncle Paulie's Deli was conceived. After 5 years and multiple locations around the city, Uncle Paulie’s Deli is the place where everyone knows your name… and your order. From the neighborhood, for the neighborhood. For more information and locations visit unclepauliesdeli.com.

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Purchase a ticket here.

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Hello, welcome! We have 69 international galleries participating this year including: 12.26 (Dallas and Los Angeles), 56 Henry (New York), A Hug From The Art World (New York), Adams and Ollman (Portland), Albertz Benda (Los Angeles), El Apartamento (La Habana and Madrid), Babst (Los Angeles), Barnardine (Tokyo), la BEAST gallery (Los Angeles), Nicelle Beauchene (New York), CalArts (Valencia), Corbett vs. Dempsey (Chicago), James Cope (Dallas), COMA (Sydney), Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland), DoBeDo Projects (London), DOCUMENT (Chicago and Lisbon), Tara Downs (New York), Derek Eller Gallery (New York), Entrance (New York), EUROPA (New York), Fernberger Gallery (Los Angeles), FOUNDRY SEOUL (Seoul), HAIRandNAILS (Minneapolis), Harper's (East Hampton, Los Angeles, and New York), Harkawik (Los Angeles and New York), Timothy Hawkinson Gallery (Los Angeles), Althuis Hofland Fine Arts (Amsterdam), ILY2 (Portland), Charlie James Gallery (Los Angeles) , JDJ Gallery (New York), Nina Johnson Gallery (Miami), JRP|Editions (Geneva), Josh Lilley (London), Silke Lindner (New York), La Loma Projects (Los Angeles), Lomex (New York), Long Story Short (New York and Paris), Luce Gallery (Turin), M+B (Los Angeles and Milan), Magenta Plains (New York), Marinaro (New York), Martha's (Austin), Charles Moffett (Los Angeles), Morán Morán (Los Angeles), Moskowitz Bayse (Los Angeles), mother's tankstation (Dublin and London), Mrs. (Maspeth), Brigitte Mulholland (Paris), Megan Mulrooney (Los Angeles), murmurs (Los Angeles), Nicodim (Bucharest, Los Angeles, and New York), One Trick Pony Gallery (Los Angeles), Carlye Packer (Los Angeles), Pangée (Montréal), Franklin Parrasch (New York), Patel Brown (Montréal and Toronto), Patron (Chicago), Phillip + Dan (Los Angeles and New York), Povos Gallery (Chicago), Ricco/Maresca Gallery (New York), Sea View (Los Angeles), sobering galerie (Paris), Studioli (Rome), Tierra Del Sol Gallery (Los Angeles), Voloshyn Gallery (Kyiv and Miami), Volume Gallery (Chicago), von ammon co (Washington, DC), and White Columns (New York). You will find them all around the pool and in the 11th and 12th floors of the Tower.

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Rocky’s Matcha aims to make a great cup of matcha for good people everywhere. Founded by Rocky Xu in 2022, the traveling tea house has popped up in Los Angeles, Miami, and Tokyo.

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You grab your phone and google for "Felix Art Fair"

Established in 2018, Felix is an art fair created with the intention to foster intimate experiences that prioritize conversation, collaboration, and community. The 2025 edition takes place February 19 – 23, 2025 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Public hours are Thursday through Saturday, from 11am - 7pm, and Sunday, 11am - 5pm. Purchase a ticket here.

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Felix media partner, Cultured, is a destination for discovery, cultured offers a distinct voice at the intersection of contemporary art, architecture, design and fashion. Cultured speaks to a discerning audience through its compelling interviews, luxurious features and innovative portraits of the personalities shaping the creative world today.

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Founded in 2009 in Milan as a biannual “almanac of contemporary aesthetics," Felix cultural partner KALEIDOSCOPE is a meeting place for a global community of creative minds, drawn by an audacious art direction and ever-surprising contributions from visionary artists, writers and image-makers. Believing that artists are the real truth-tellers and agents of change, our work puts their vision and creativity front and center—a constant reminder about the importance of pushing boundaries and breaking new ground.

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Flash Art is a contemporary art magazine, and an Italian and international publishing house. Originally published bilingually, both in Italian and in English, since 1978 is published in two separate editions, Flash Art Italia (Italian) and Flash Art International (English). Since September 2020, the magazine is seasonal, and said editions are published four times a year.

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Rocky’s Matcha aims to make a great cup of matcha for good people everywhere. Founded by Rocky Xu in 2022, the traveling tea house has popped up in Paris, Los Angeles, Miami, and Tokyo.

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Run of the fair passes and day passes are available now. Purchase a ticket here.

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Puzzled, you grab your phone and google for "Felix Art Fair"

Established in 2018, Felix is an art fair created with the intention to foster intimate experiences that prioritize conversation, collaboration, and community. The 2025 edition takes place February 19 – 23, 2025 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel in Los Angeles. Public hours are Thursday through Saturday, from 11am - 7pm, and Sunday, 11am - 5pm. Purchase a ticket here.

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56 Henry is a contemporary art gallery owned by Eleanor Rines, located at 56 Henry Street in New York City.

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Adams and Ollman exhibits and promotes contemporary art as well as historical works by self-taught artists of the 20th century. The gallery’s exhibitions seek to radically expand the discourse around contemporary art, bringing together a wide range of artistic practices, from self-taught masterworks to material culture to contemporary works in a variety of media. The gallery was founded in 2013 in Portland, Oregon, by Amy Adams.

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Founded in 2015, Albertz Benda is a contemporary art gallery with an international program exploring material and textility as well as cultural and social dialogues. Our Chelsea space is host to rotating exhibitions with an emphasis on solo presentations of emerging artists, new research into historic figures, and thematic group exhibitions. In 2021, the gallery expanded to a second location in Los Angeles. Featuring an evolving identity separate from our New York program, the LA space is realized within the context of a domestic setting, advancing new connections between visual arts, craft, and design.

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AND NOW is a contemporary art gallery based in Dallas, TX. The gallery was established in 2014 by James Cope.

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Charles Moffett is a contemporary art gallery located in New York.

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Charlie James Gallery was founded in 2009. The gallery is known for discovering emergent artists and bringing them to a global audience. We have a strong concept-driven roster that embraces all artistic media. The gallery is moving into a focus on work from non-dominant perspectives, work often described as political or activist in nature.

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Corbett vs. Dempsey is an art gallery, record label, book publisher, library, and archive in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 2004 by John Corbett and Jim Dempsey. The gallery represents a variety of international artists, as well as artists connected to Chicago's history and contemporary art scene.

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Creative Growth Art Center is a non-profit organization based in Oakland, California that advances the inclusion of artists with developmental disabilities in contemporary art and strengthens community by providing a supportive studio environment and gallery representation. Founded in 1974, Creative Growth has been a pioneering force in the arts and disabilities sector, establishing a model for creative communities where art is an essential form of communication accessible to all. Celebrating its 50th Anniversary this year, Creative Growth has partnered with SFMOMA to present a landmark exhibition showcasing half a century of artistic achievement and innovation.

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Founded in Chelsea in 1997, Derek Eller Gallery’s mission is to promote emerging artists, champion under-recognized established artists, and present alternative art-historical narratives. Exhibiting work in a range of mediums, including painting, sculpture, photography, and installation, the gallery represents a multigenerational roster of contemporary artists from across the United States and abroad.

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DOCUMENT is a commercial gallery, with locations in Chicago and Lisbon, that specializes in contemporary photography, film and media based art. The gallery has organized more than 60 solo exhibitions since its opening in 2012 and actively promotes the work of emerging national and international artists.

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Founded in 2015, El Apartamento is interested in the most incisive proposals within contemporary Cuban art. As an artistic project generated outside the official circuit, it intends to implement alternative dynamics of work that can be different from institutional spaces. This commitment, along with a sustained work with its artists, foster the gradual articulation of a particular position within Cuban art. It has already organized several exhibitions of interest, including collateral shows to the XII and XIII editions of the Havana Biennial and projects for the collaborative program CONDO. El Apartamento has placed some of its artists in prestigious collections such as the MoMA, the Tate Modern, Kadist SF, and the PAMM. The gallery is part of the International Galleries Alliance (IGA).

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Entrance, founded by Louis and Jack Shannon, grows its influence as an antidote to the art world.

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HAIR + NAILS is a contemporary art gallery owned and operated by artist/musician Ryan Fontaine and dancer/choreographer/artist Kristin van Loon. We are dedicated to exhibiting compelling and thought provoking visual art and occasional dance performance. Our hope is that H + N will play the evolving role of providing a space where new work, new ideas and new collaborations are sparked and are able to flourish.

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Harkawik began as the project of curator and artist Peter Harkawik. Following a series of large survey exhibitions (Touchy Feely, 2011, Made in Space, 2013, Walk Artisanal, 2016), the gallery was founded in 2018 as Real Pain in Mid City, Los Angeles. Our New York space, located on Orchard Street on the Lower East Side, opened in late 2020. Harkawik works with artists to foster creative development, building exhibitions of lasting significance through a collaborative approach that closely mirrors studio practice.

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Founded in 1997, Harper’s is dedicated to exploring relationships between fine art and print media. Drawing on founder Harper Levine’s decades-long career as a rare book dealer, the original location at 87 Newtown Lane remains a cultural hub of the East End.

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Josh Lilley is a commercial art gallery founded in 2009. Set within a bi-level former tailor's storehouse, Josh Lilley now represents an international community of the world's leading artists.

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Since 2004, with a team of highly motivated collaborators, associate designers, and editors, and thanks to collaborations with great artists, writers, curators, museums, and private institutions worldwide, JRP|Editions (formerly JRP|Ringier, 2004–2018) has managed, through an expanding network of specialized and committed distributors, to establish itself as one of the leading international and independent publishers of contemporary art. We have built up a catalogue of more than 500 titles currently in active distribution (in English, German, and French), which has established our profile and audience in the contemporary art field.

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La Loma Projects is an artist-run exhibition space in Los Angeles, California, expanded in 2022 from a home-based gallery in the Eagle Rock neighborhood to a brick and mortar space in Highland Park. The programing seeks to offer a platform for emerging artists, showing their work alongside more established artists.

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Lomex is a gallery located at 86 Walker Street #3 New York, New York.

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Luce Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located in Largo Montebello 40 in Turin, Italy. The gallery focuses on promotion of emerging and established international artists. Luce Gallery participates in international fairs, representing talents from different countries. The gallery has always proposed a fresh and innovative view on contemporary art trends.

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M+B was founded in 2008 in Los Angeles as a platform for locating and promoting emergent talent. Initially, the artists in the program worked primarily in photography and led the reconsideration of the medium during a critical juncture. Since then, the gallery has expanded its roster and is committed to presenting work across all media including painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and video. The gallery has become a springboard for finding new and under-recognized talent. Represented artists have shown work at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Centre Pompidou, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Denver Art Museum, among others. Works by the gallery’s artists have been acquired by museums such as the Whitney Museum (New York), Guggenheim Museum (New York), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), among others.

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Magenta Plains is a contemporary art gallery located in the lower east side of New York City directed by Olivia Smith, Chris Dorland and David Deutsch.

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Marinaro is a gallery established in February 2017. It is located on the Lower East Side of New York City.

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Established in 2008, Morán Morán focuses on exhibitions of contemporary art, representing emerging and mid-career artists as well as presenting historical material. Since its early years, the gallery has supported exploration and collaboration, inviting curators and artists to conceive exhibitions, performances, and happenings to expand programming beyond the traditional gallery model. These endeavors imprinted a freeform and experimental identity early on, as well as establishing a history of discovery, which serves as the gallery’s foundation.

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Established in Dublin, 2006, mother’s tankstation privileges the development of emerging complex and disparate practices, presented within critical/polemical frameworks. In addition to the Dublin base, mother’s opened a London space in 2017, which has established itself on the ground floor in the busy gallery district of Bethnal Green. The combined programme includes seven+ exhibitions annually, through which a growing number of represented artists have been introduced to significant international attention. A further presence is constructed through art fairs where curated presentations are approached with correspondent rigour to gallery exhibitions, structured on a mixture of solo exhibitions and curated conversations. The gallery privileges text and dialogue as important negotiators of artistic ideas and is conscious of our website as a research facility and a complete historical archive.

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Founded in September of 2016, Mrs. (pronounced mis-iz) is a contemporary art gallery located in Maspeth, Queens. Located away from the geographic center of the New York art world, the gallery focuses on offering a new platform for emerging, under represented and mid career artists, while engaging the surrounding community.

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Nicelle Beauchene Gallery is located at 7 Franklin Place in the Tribeca neighborhood of New York. The gallery first opened on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 2008 to promote the work of emerging local and international artists. In December 2012, the gallery relocated to a historic two-story building on Broome Street shared with Jack Hanley, where the two galleries switched exhibition spaces every other show. Beauchene spearheaded this site-specific move to expand upon the Lower East Side's histories of collaboration, cooperation, and flexible exhibition contexts. For several years, the gallery operated an off-site project space staged in an apartment, allowing artists to reconfigure the boundaries of the domestic sphere.

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Mihai Nicodim opened his first gallery in 2006 with a focus on emerging and overlooked American, African, Asian, and European artists. The artists of the gallery share a common interest in reassessing art history from an outsider's perspective and challenging its established framework. Nicodim was the first to show Adrian Ghenie, Ciprian Muresan, Simphiwe Ndzube and Moffat Takadiwa in solo exhibitions stateside, placing their works in important collections, and helping their careers gain global prominence. The gallery places strong emphasis on aggressive curated group shows that interrogate the cultural, sociopolitical, and spiritual undercurrents that shape society, mixing established, radical, and esoteric artists together to explore new narratives and spotlight talent.

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Nina Johnson is a contemporary art gallery committed to elevating exceptional artists and their work. Founded by Nina Johnson in 2007, we are both a pillar of Miami’s contemporary art community and an internationally recognized voice known for our wide-ranging and intuitive program.

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Franklin Parrasch and Christopher Heijnen opened Parrasch Heijnen in January 2016 with a program guided by a conscious reflection upon the process of creativity as related to human evolution. The gallery's inaugural exhibition, Ken Price Sculpture: A Career Survey, 1961-2008, defined the vision for our aesthetic and approach. The lens through which Parrasch Heijnen contextualizes the work of the artists we partner with is based on historical precedents as well as the intergenerational exchange of energy and ideas. The gallery explores contemporary undercurrents while pairing like-spirited material from a variety of periods in contexts designed to bend preconceptions. Using a wide-range of media, the artists we champion engage in conceptual dialogue surrounding cultural and sociopolitical issues to depict the human experience.

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Patron is a contemporary art gallery in Chicago created by Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar in 2015. The gallery is founded on the defining characteristics of a patron of the arts: a person chosen, named or honored as a special guardian, protector or supporter. With this foundation set as a cornerstone, the gallery hopes to help open new avenues for audiences to engage with and find access to contemporary art.

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Chicago artist Lucca Colombelli founded Povos in 2020 as an online gallery. After a run of successful pop-up projects, Povos moved to its first physical space on Milwaukee Avenue in late 2021, and later to a larger gallery in Chicago's West Town Gallery district. In 2024, Povos partnered with artist and gallerist Winston Guo, founder of W. Gallery, leading to the opening of Povos Downtown, an additional exhibition space in Chicago's South Loop. Povos amplifies the voices of emerging and early-career artists, focusing on unique, surreal, and politically engaged narratives. The gallery now aims to build its international platform, supporting artists committed to exploring deep and timeless truths.

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Ricco/Maresca Gallery was founded in 1979 on Broome Street, within New York’s then-emerging SoHo gallery district. The gallery relocated to TriBeCa in the 1980s and later moved to Wooster Street in SoHo—which had by then become an established contemporary art hub. In 1997, Ricco/Maresca became one of the first galleries to move to the new Chelsea art district and is currently located at 529 West 20th Street. The gallery champions and showcases the art of self-taught masters working outside the continuum of art history. The gallery specializes in Outsider, Self-Taught, Contemporary, and historically significant American Folk art in various media.

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Sea View is a contemporary art gallery operated by Sara Lee Hantman in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.

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Silke Lindner is a contemporary art gallery located in TriBeCa New York.

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Studioli is an art space started in Rome in 2015 inside an old quad of ivy-cloaked garçonnières by the Tiber River.
Artists are invited to work and reinterpret the space, among smoked mirror surfaces, chromatic moquettes, boiseries and Magistretti furniture.

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Tara Downs is dedicated to presenting developments in contemporary art for audiences worldwide. The gallery supports a roster of international artists at all stages in their careers, and hosts forward-thinking, multigenerational programming at its distinctive Broadway location. Beyond this, Tara Downs also promotes large-scale exhibitions, interdisciplinary projects, and collaborations by its artists in museums, biennials, and other exhibition platforms.

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Theta was founded in 2021 by Jordan Barse in a sub-level space in the New York City neighborhood of Tribeca. The gallery is dedicated to showcasing emerging and re-emerging artists and presenting exhibitions that formulate unique blends of ingenuity, criticality and beauty.

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As part of the larger Tierra del Sol Foundation, the Tierra del Sol Gallery exhibits work created in our unique, and innovative art studios. For 30 years, Tierra del Sol’s Gallery has propelled countless artists into the world of contemporary art. All sales go directly to supporting the artists as well as Tierra, which provides studio space, career support, and materials for artists to craft their work. Tierra del Sol Foundation is a not-for-profit founded in 1971. We champion inclusion and value for all individuals with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts.

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In 2016, Max and Julia Voloshyn established Voloshyn Gallery in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine. Situated in a historic 1913 building, Voloshyn Gallery's space provides an unconventional setting for contemporary art. It exhibits a broad range of works in a variety of media, representing both emerging and established artists. The Voloshyn Gallery hosts solo and group exhibitions, works with accomplished curators and museums, and takes part in leading contemporary art fairs. In 2022, Voloshyn Gallery made the difficult decision to close temporarily due to the full-scale invasion on Ukraine. In 2023 the gallery reopened it’s doors in Kyiv, Ukraine and also expanded with a space in Miami, Florida.

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Volume Gallery focuses on American design, with a strong emphasis placed on emerging contemporary designers. The Volume Gallery releases editions, publications and organizes exhibits that showcase the work of American designers to regional, national and international audiences. We are asking critical questions of what it means to be an American designer in a culture that is rapidly becoming more global, while simultaneously examining the American experience.

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White Columns was founded in 1970 by a group of artists including Jeffrey Lew and Gordon Matta-Clark as an experimental platform for art. Originally located in SoHo (and known as the 112 Workshop/112 Greene Street), the organization was renamed White Columns when it moved to Spring Street in 1980. In 1991 White Columns moved to Christopher Street in the West Village, and in 1998 the gallery relocated to the borders of the West Village and Meat Packing District. In April 2018, White Columns re-opened in a new location at 91 Horatio Street adjacent to the new Whitney Museum of American Art and The High-Line.

White Columns presents an ongoing program of exhibitions, projects, talks, screenings, and events. Additionally it has a record label ‘The Sound of White Columns’ that releases vinyl-only recordings by artist-performers. White Columns is a not-for-profit gallery which is open to the public, free-of-charge, eleven months per year.

White Columns provides support to artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial attention.

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Ext. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel

It's February 19, 2025. The sun is shining in weather typical for February in Los Angeles as Felix Art Fair opens its doors. We focus on a young boy, 8 years old, as he and his parents emerge from the queue to buy Tickets. He pushes past his parents and strides up and down the length of the pool wearing a Zorro mask, black cape, and a Caped Crusader t-shirt.

Randy Newman (V.O.)

Roll down the window, put down the top // Crank up the Beach Boys, baby // Don't let the music stop // We're gonna ride it till // We just can't ride it no more // I love L.A. (we love it) // I love L.A. (we love it) // We love it

Young Boy

(excitedly, to himself)

Los Angeles is in need of a hero! Someone stronger than Superman, better looking and richer than Bruce Wayne, someone who can control the climate, extinguish evil with his pinky toe, someone who can… (he collides with the leg of MIHAI NICODIM, who is indiscreetly puffing on what appears to be a vape pen)

Mihai

(amused, in a thick Romanian accent)

Watch it, kid!

Felix Staff Member

(politely)

Sir, you can’t vape here.

Mihai

(annoyed)

It’s an inhaler for my asthma. (quickly turns away and notices SARA HANTMAN across the pool—his mood lifts instantly) Sara! How’s it feel to be poolside after last month?

Sara

(enthusiastically)

Better than ever! The Gallery List is tops, probably the best yet. My God, we needed this! (Mihai smiles, nods, and puffs.)

Sara

Mihai! You can’t vape here!

Mihai

It’s for my asthma!

Ext. Uncle Paulie's – Garden Area

JOSH LILLEY is on his mobile phone, a half-eaten Uncle Paulie's Deli sandwich on his plate and a Rocky's Matcha on the table beside it. He’s within earshot, but not the direct line of sight of BENJAMIN TRIGANO who is dining alone, and DEVENDRA BANHART, who is seated with his girlfriend GIA and the musician BECK. The sun is bright enough to necessitate sunglasses for guests and umbrellas over the tables.

Josh

(speaking loudly on his mobile phone through airpods with staccato and decisive British English elocution, presumably to someone in London)

Can you hear me? I didn’t expect it to be such a party this year after watching the news from January, but man can this city turn out! I saw Devendra Banhart and his gorgeous girlfriend in the ballroom, Miranda July spent about ten minutes in our booth, and rumor has it Anderson .Paak and Kim Gordon are in the mix, too. All the cool kids are here. What does my son say? “WE ARE SO BACK!”

Benjamin

(who was attentively eavesdropping on JOSH’s conversation, leans over to the table of handsome strangers seated next to him to initiate conversation in his mild French lilt)

I heard Devendra Banhart is here. I’m a huge fan.

Devendra

(chuckling, but with good nature)

Gia told me he’s cruising the fair with Beck! It would be great to meet them.

Benjamin

(confidently, clearly oblivious to whom he’s speaking)

I hope they come by the M+B cabana. That’s my gallery. We’re always mentioned as a top booth in magazines like Cultured. You can see the crowd pouring out of the room from here!

Beck

(playing along with DEVENDRA)

If it’s that good, I’m sure they’ll pop by. We’ve made a little plan so we can see everything: we’re going to head to the top floors to check out the Tower galleries first, then do a lap around the poolside cabanas and definitely scope your stuff.

Benjamin

It’s going to blow you away!

Gia

Congrats! Can’t wait to see. What’s the room number?

Ext. galleries, hallway

MILLS MORÁN is waiting outside the Althuis Hofland Fine Arts room for CARLYE PACKER and advisor NANCY GAMBOA. Althuis can be heard inside the room joking and cavorting with collectors and friends—it sounds like deals are being made. MILLS grows increasingly agitated, continually checking his phone, texting repeatedly. AUSTYN WEINER exits the booth.

Austyn

(jovially)

Yo, Mills! It feels so good to be out here with all our people. Felix is love! Such a vibe!

Mills

(smiling, still focused on his phone)

The vibe will be a lot better if Carlye and Nancy get here before this booth sells out.

Austyn

(she indiscreetly pulls out what appears to be a weed pen and sucks on it)

I hear you, brother. There they are! Carlye! Nancy! WAZZUP??

Mills

(to AUSTYN, under his breath)

You can’t vape in here.

Austyn

(quickly kisses NANCY and CARLYE, shouting over her shoulder as she walks away)

It’s an inhaler! For my asthma!

Nancy

(to MILLS as she, he, and CARLYE enter the room)

Did we make it in time?

Mills

(smirking)

You're always on time.

Ext. Shirley Brasserie

AL MORÁN is holding court at a large booth table with ARTY NELSON, MEGAN MULROONEY, BRIGITTE MULHOLLAND, and a few of their closest friends and collectors at the Hollywood Roosevelt's newest restaurant. The group is a few cocktails in, the room is loud and buzzing, guests are hopping from table to table. Everyone knows everyone, or at least someone who knows everyone, and everyone is happy to accidentally swap drinks and loudly share stories about the day, about home life, about where they were last month over the bumping music. It’s a familiar, festive night.

Megan

(shouting over the noise of the room to AL)

This is EXACTLY what I needed! The art! The people! The crowd! The noise!

Al

(leaning over ARTY so MEGAN can hear)

What did Josh Lilley say to me today? WE ARE SO BACK!

Brigitte

(laughing)

What are you, twelve?

Arty

(pushing AL aside to chime in)

Man, whatever money I made today I spent at the Creative Growth Art Center booth. They are killing it!

Brigitte

Stay in your room tomorrow, save money!

Megan

No! He hasn’t been to my booth yet!

Arty

(laughing)

I guess it’s settled, then.

Al

But it's only the first day!

Ext. Tropicana Bar

Tight shot of MIHAI, MILLS, SARA, and ANNIE ARMSTRONG ordering drinks at the poolside bar. Martinis for all except MIHAI, who is on his eighth coffee. ANNIE is plumbing the group for hot gossip for her column, and everyone is speaking at once.

ANNIE

What's taking so long? We ordered ten minutes ago.

Mills

(to the group at large)

You know how hard it is to wrangle Carlye and Nancy, let alone the two of them together?

Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) plays as we get an aerial view of the bar.

Rod Stewart (V.O.)

Kick off your shoes and sit right down // Loosen off that pretty French gown // Let me pour you a good long drink // Oh, baby, don't you hesitate 'cause // Tonight's the night // It's gonna be alright

Mihai

I had to trade senior members of the artist union if I wanted pigments other than cadmium yellow…

Sara

(talking over MIHAI to MILLS)

Nancy’s been so busy with the MAC3 initiative, I can’t believe she has time for anything else, but she and her clients somehow hit every booth!

Annie

(gathering the drinks)

Was that Sky Ferreira?

Mills

They missed out on the best piece. And it was available till the second before they showed up!

Sara

And she’s impossible to get, her list goes into the hundreds…

Mihai

(sips his coffee, smirks)

I think this is decaf.

We pan out to an aerial view of the fair as the group continues to banter, the poolside is throbbing with people, laughing, dancing, drinking. The night is a bit chilly, but no one seems to mind, there are heat lamps, and it feels good to be together again. The camera zooms back in to focus on YOUNG BOY, still in costume, still racing around the pool.

Young Boy

(excitedly, to himself as he shoves his way through the crowd)

The city has come alive with feral beasts, dancing to mayhem, to destruction, to the demons of the night. Only one man can save us… (he collides with the leg of MIHAI again, who is indiscreetly puffing on what appears to be a vape pen)

Mihai

(laughing)

What's up kid?

Young Boy

(in his best BATMAN voice)

SIR. YOU CANNOT VAPE HERE.

Mihai

(laughing)

It’s for my… ah, forget it. (tosses vape in the trash)

Young Boy

(continuing with BATMAN voice)

MY WORK HERE IS DONE.

Young Boy's Mother

(running to him from out of frame, exasperated)

There you are! Where were you? What are you doing?

Young Boy

(proudly)

Just saving Los Angeles, Mom.

Credits

Screenplay by Ben Lee Ritchie Handler. Written in Los Angeles, CA on January 16, 2025.