But for all the gossip, if you’re actually on the ground, it’s a mad dash, a spree of great gallery openings and spare-no-expense dinners to follow. Gladstone isn’t the only dealer to double down on the city. Other extremely successful bicoastal enterprises—galleries that make New York and LA their primary home bases—include David Kordansky Gallery, Karma, Matthew Brown, Jeffrey Deitch, Hoffman Donahue, François Ghebaly, and James Fuentes. They all have big shows on both coasts, and that’s not even mentioning the LA-operating mega-galleries that also have outposts in Europe (Gagosian, Hauser & Wirth, David Zwirner, Lisson, Marian Goodman, Pace, Perrotin) and decided to stage their major shows in LA while everyone’s in town for Frieze. Another data point: As I mentioned in my profile of the artist Paul McCarthy, The Journal Gallery is staging possibly its most important show in over two decades of existence, not in New York—where it started—but in LA, where they opened an outpost in 2024. Gallery dinners for The Journal in the past have been nice affairs at Dan Tana’s, …