A New York artist was arrested and scheduled for psychological evaluation for repeating "I Love NY."
The artist intended it to be a display of his love for the city: white plastic bags stamped with the “I ♥ NY” logo lighted from within and glowing moonlike from lampposts and trees in Brooklyn and beyond. Almost immediately, the installation attracted attention, though probably not the kind the artist, Takeshi Miyakawa, expected.
Takeshi Miyakawa's installation project prompted a call to the police bomb squad.
The police bomb squad was called and Mr. Miyakawa, 50, was arrested early Saturday.
On Sunday, a judge ordered him to be held pending a psychological evaluation, his lawyer said. ...... What was art to Mr. Miyakawa, was, to the authorities, “an assembly consisting of a plastic box containing wires which was connected by a wire to a plastic bag containing a battery suspended from a metal rod,” the complaint said. ...NYT
