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"Art Platform \u2014 Los Angeles, the fair that debuted in 2011 at downtown\u2019s L.A. Mart before relocating to Santa Monica Airport\u2019s Barker Hangar for its second edition last September, has canceled its 2013 edition. ARTINFO learned on Thursday that Art Platform \u2014 which is run by Merchandise Mart Properties Inc., the company that also puts on New York\u2019s Armory Show, among other fairs \u2014 has opted to call off its third outing, which was slated to run September 27-29 at Barker Hangar.\u201CAfter careful consideration we have decided to cancel Art Platform \u2013 Los Angeles 2013,\u201D the fair's director Adam Gross said Thursday. \u201CEven with an incredible amount of support from collectors, artists, and galleries, changes in the art fair landscape have made it a challenge to produce the high quality fair the Art Platform team has always been committed to delivering.\u201DIn its first year Art Platform \u2014 Los Angeles not only coincided with the Getty\u2019s Pacific Standard Time initiative, but also attracted satellite fairs PULSE and Fountain to make their West Coast debuts. The following year, however, Art Platform went it alone, relocating to the historic Hangar for the convenience of out-of-town collectors and jettisoning the previous installment\u2019s requirement that exhibitors include California-flavored work in recognition of PST.\u201CWe\u2019re broadening our focus from the L.A. and California art scene to an ultimately international framework,\u201D Gross told ARTINFO at the time.Last year there were concerns that the fair\u2019s new location would be made virtually inaccessible by the so-called \u201CCarmageddon 2,\u201D the closure of Los Angeles\u2019s 405 freeway for construction on the weekend of the fair."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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