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| New York Today: Art Fair Affairs | New York Today: Art Fair Affairs |
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| Updated, 7:21 a.m. | |
| Good morning on this foggy Wednesday. | |
| Finding a pickpocket in this city is more difficult than you’d think, David Horvitz discovered. | Finding a pickpocket in this city is more difficult than you’d think, David Horvitz discovered. |
| What with credit cards, tightfitting pants and more lucrative high-tech ways to steal these days, these thieves are few and far between. | What with credit cards, tightfitting pants and more lucrative high-tech ways to steal these days, these thieves are few and far between. |
| (Or so people are willing to admit.) | (Or so people are willing to admit.) |
| But teamed up with an associate, Mr. Horvitz, a 34-year-old artist, found a professional pickpocket. And hired the thief. And says he still has all of his possessions. | But teamed up with an associate, Mr. Horvitz, a 34-year-old artist, found a professional pickpocket. And hired the thief. And says he still has all of his possessions. |
| The hard-to-find talents were needed for this year’s Frieze New York art fair. | The hard-to-find talents were needed for this year’s Frieze New York art fair. |
| Opening to the public on Randalls Island on Thursday, the fair consists of more than 200 galleries from 31 countries. | |
| As part of Mr. Horvitz’s performance art piece there, the professional pocket picker will circulate through a crowd to fill — rather than empty — bags and pockets with tiny sculptures. | As part of Mr. Horvitz’s performance art piece there, the professional pocket picker will circulate through a crowd to fill — rather than empty — bags and pockets with tiny sculptures. |
| In a city where so many are jaded, Mr. Horvitz said, “We’re hoping to create moments that are not expected, things that you can’t predict.” | In a city where so many are jaded, Mr. Horvitz said, “We’re hoping to create moments that are not expected, things that you can’t predict.” |
| Some of these moments: Follow an artist’s written or drawn instructions for an Instagram-ready pose in a booth of bronze furniture. Or see how another artist makes use of unconventional materials — like a live donkey. | Some of these moments: Follow an artist’s written or drawn instructions for an Instagram-ready pose in a booth of bronze furniture. Or see how another artist makes use of unconventional materials — like a live donkey. |
| The art spills off Randalls Island as well. | The art spills off Randalls Island as well. |
| Fairs have sprung up around Frieze New York including Spring Masters at the Park Avenue Armory in Midtown; 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Portal in the Financial District; Fridge on the Lower East Side; Flu x Art Fair in Harlem; and Art New York and Context New York at Pier 94 in Midtown. | Fairs have sprung up around Frieze New York including Spring Masters at the Park Avenue Armory in Midtown; 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Portal in the Financial District; Fridge on the Lower East Side; Flu x Art Fair in Harlem; and Art New York and Context New York at Pier 94 in Midtown. |
| To visit the original, take a ferry from the East 90th Street or the East 35th Street docks ($19), a bus from the Guggenheim Museum ($8) or the M35 bus. Tickets are $45. | To visit the original, take a ferry from the East 90th Street or the East 35th Street docks ($19), a bus from the Guggenheim Museum ($8) or the M35 bus. Tickets are $45. |
| Here’s what else is happening: | Here’s what else is happening: |
| April showers bring May... showers. | April showers bring May... showers. |
| It’s our third overcast, misty day this week, with more on the way through the weekend. | It’s our third overcast, misty day this week, with more on the way through the weekend. |
| Expect this morning’s on-and-off light drizzles to get heavier in the afternoon, with a high around 50. | Expect this morning’s on-and-off light drizzles to get heavier in the afternoon, with a high around 50. |
| Hair forecast: stick-to-your-face soggy. | Hair forecast: stick-to-your-face soggy. |
| • Sheldon Silver, 72, the former speaker of the State Assembly, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. [New York Times] | • Sheldon Silver, 72, the former speaker of the State Assembly, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. [New York Times] |
| • The body of a man, whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet were encased in concrete, washed ashore in Brooklyn. [New York Times] | • The body of a man, whose face was wrapped in duct tape and feet were encased in concrete, washed ashore in Brooklyn. [New York Times] |
| • Candles probably caused Sunday’s fire at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan, officials said. [New York Times] | • Candles probably caused Sunday’s fire at the Serbian Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sava in Manhattan, officials said. [New York Times] |
| • Thomas W. Libous, the once-influential former state senator whose reputation was tarnished by a late-life criminal conviction, has died. [New York Times] | • Thomas W. Libous, the once-influential former state senator whose reputation was tarnished by a late-life criminal conviction, has died. [New York Times] |
| • President Obama may create a national monument to the gay rights movement near the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, where a 1969 uprising helped inspire the push for equality. [New York Times] | • President Obama may create a national monument to the gay rights movement near the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, where a 1969 uprising helped inspire the push for equality. [New York Times] |
| • A Connecticut woman who became pregnant during a trip to Central America has been found to have the Zika virus. [Associated Press] | • A Connecticut woman who became pregnant during a trip to Central America has been found to have the Zika virus. [Associated Press] |
| • Aspiring Broadway performers waited for up to five hours in the rain on Tuesday to audition for “Hamilton.” [DNA Info] | • Aspiring Broadway performers waited for up to five hours in the rain on Tuesday to audition for “Hamilton.” [DNA Info] |
| • Scoreboard: Lightning electrocutes Islanders, 5-4 (in overtime). Orioles cajole Yankees, 4-1. Braves terrify Mets, 3-0. | • Scoreboard: Lightning electrocutes Islanders, 5-4 (in overtime). Orioles cajole Yankees, 4-1. Braves terrify Mets, 3-0. |
| • For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Wednesday Briefing. | • For a global look at what’s happening, see Your Wednesday Briefing. |
| • Look for migrating songbirds on a nature walk at Cloves Lakes Park on Staten Island. 10 a.m. [Free] | • Look for migrating songbirds on a nature walk at Cloves Lakes Park on Staten Island. 10 a.m. [Free] |
| • An audible exhibition, “Boombox Retrospective,” by the artist Tom Sachs is at the Brooklyn Museum. 11 a.m. [$16] | • An audible exhibition, “Boombox Retrospective,” by the artist Tom Sachs is at the Brooklyn Museum. 11 a.m. [$16] |
| • Hop on a trolley, with stops at galleries, a museum and a comedy show, starting at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. [Free] | • Hop on a trolley, with stops at galleries, a museum and a comedy show, starting at the Longwood Art Gallery at Hostos Community College in the Bronx. 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. [Free] |
| • A costume party, with food, drinks and parlor games from the late Victorian period, is at the American Folk Art Museum in the Upper West Side. 7 p.m. [$25] | • A costume party, with food, drinks and parlor games from the late Victorian period, is at the American Folk Art Museum in the Upper West Side. 7 p.m. [$25] |
| • In celebration of Star Wars Day, a night of theater inspired by the films is at Failte Irish Whiskey Bar in Kips Bay. 7 p.m. [$10] | • In celebration of Star Wars Day, a night of theater inspired by the films is at Failte Irish Whiskey Bar in Kips Bay. 7 p.m. [$10] |
| • Mets host Braves, 1:10 p.m. (SNY). Yankees at Orioles, 7:05 p.m. (YES). | • Mets host Braves, 1:10 p.m. (SNY). Yankees at Orioles, 7:05 p.m. (YES). |
| • For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide. | • For more events, see The New York Times’s Arts & Entertainment guide. |
| 4 trains are running with delays. | |
| • Subway and PATH | • Subway and PATH |
| • Railroads: L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak | • Railroads: L.I.R.R., Metro-North, N.J. Transit, Amtrak |
| • Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s. | • Roads: Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s. |
| • Alternate-side parking: in effect until Thursday. | • Alternate-side parking: in effect until Thursday. |
| • Ferries: Staten Island Ferry, New York Waterway, East River Ferry | • Ferries: Staten Island Ferry, New York Waterway, East River Ferry |
| • Airports: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark | • Airports: La Guardia, J.F.K., Newark |
| Here’s something to brag about: You lived through the city’s biggest snowstorm on record. | Here’s something to brag about: You lived through the city’s biggest snowstorm on record. |
| You just didn’t know it. | You just didn’t know it. |
| Last week, the National Weather Service revised the total snowfall for the blizzard that hit the city the weekend of Jan. 22. | Last week, the National Weather Service revised the total snowfall for the blizzard that hit the city the weekend of Jan. 22. |
| The new total for Central Park is 27.5 inches, surpassing the previous record of 26.9 inches set by a storm in February 2006. | The new total for Central Park is 27.5 inches, surpassing the previous record of 26.9 inches set by a storm in February 2006. |
| January’s previous and now incorrect reading of 26.8 inches stemmed from a miscommunication between the Weather Service and the Central Park Conservancy. | January’s previous and now incorrect reading of 26.8 inches stemmed from a miscommunication between the Weather Service and the Central Park Conservancy. |
| The new total is the largest since the city began recording in 1869. | The new total is the largest since the city began recording in 1869. |
| So let us be the first to say it. | So let us be the first to say it. |
| If you played, sledded or simply watched the snowfall from a cozy corner of your apartment — congratulations! | If you played, sledded or simply watched the snowfall from a cozy corner of your apartment — congratulations! |
| You witnessed history. | You witnessed history. |
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