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Nor’easter Causes Delays for New York Dealers Going to Frieze LA

Nor’easter Causes Delays for New York Dealers Going to Frieze LA

I arrived in Los Angeles last Friday afternoon, expecting that the showers that drenched my hometown last week might have dampened spirits ahead of Frieze Los Angeles. That proved not to be the case—temperatures here have been steadily increasing into the mid-70s over the past few days—but it turns out that weather across the country, on the East Coast, had been the true problem for some attendees, who were left scrambling after a nor’easter blanked New York City in nearly two feet of snow. Jonas Albro, an associate director at Magenta Plains, which is participating in the new Enzo fair opening Wednesday afternoon, was slated to take a direct flight from New York to LA on Tuesday morning, but after it was canceled, he was rebooked three times. Speaking to ARTnews while en route to LaGuardia Airport, which doesn’t have direct flights to LA, he said he was flying to Pittsburgh, then taking another flight to Salt Lake City, and then another to LA. His expected arrival time is 10 p.m. PST, about eight hours …