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Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Nicholas Wells and Kenan Christiansen contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April '

Events by candidate

Albanese

De Blasio

Liu

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

1 p.m.
Participates in a Republican candidate forum organized by The Daily News, WABC, the League of Women Voters and Univision, to be live-streamed online today and broadcast on WABC-TV on Sunday. Candidates gathering at studio at 149 Columbus Avenue.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

12 p.m.
Concludes his â€œEmerging Industries Tour,â€ by calling on small-business owners, mostly immigrants, to share proposals that might help their businesses develop, at Haveli restaurant in Queens.

1:30 p.m.
Greets voters with his wife, Chirlane McCray, at the 72nd Street subway station on Broadway.

6 p.m.
Greets concertgoers with his wife, Chirlane McCray, at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring Shaggy and TK Wonder, at the Prospect Park Bandshell in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

7 a.m.
Sets out to meet voters in all five boroughs over the course of the day, starting with early morning commuters at the 116th Street subway station, in Rockaway Beach.

9:05 a.m.
Tours small businesses along Beach 116th Street in Far Rockaway, starting at Nature's Island.

9:30 a.m.
Meets with hospital workers to discuss quality health care and continuing rebuilding efforts, at St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Queens.

11:10 a.m.
Visits with senior citizens, at the Alpha Phi Alpha Senior Center on Linden Boulevard in Queens.

12 p.m.
Visits with senior citizens, at the Robert Couche Senior Center on Farmers Boulevard in Queens.

3:45 p.m.
Tours small businesses along Westchester Avenue in the Bronx, starting at Lucca Restaurant.

5 p.m.
Greets evening commuters, at the Manhattan Whitehall Terminal of the Staten Island Ferry.

6 p.m.
Rides the Staten Island Ferry to a Staten Island Yankees home game, against the Lowell Spinners.

6:30 p.m.
Joins the â€œJohn Liu Youth Action Teamâ€ at the Staten Island Yankees game against the Lowell Spinners, at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.

7:30 p.m.
Addresses the Martin Luther King Jr. Democratic Club at its â€œUnity Is Oursâ€ reception, at the Cathedral Parkway Towers in Manhattan.

8:15 p.m.
Attends the Dominican Day Parade reception, two days before the parade, at the 809 Lounge in Inwood, Manhattan.

9:30 p.m.
Finishes his day in Brooklyn, the fifth borough on the itinerary, where he will greet concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn! a few hours after Bill de Blasio and his wife will have worked the crowd. Tonight's performances feature Shaggy and TK Wonder, at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

8:15 p.m.
Attends the Dominican Day Parade reception, two days before the parade, at the 809 Lounge in Inwood, Manhattan.

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

11:30 a.m.
Visits with senior citizens, at the Jewish Association for Services' Starrett City Senior Center in Brooklyn.

12:45 p.m.
Tours small businesses in Brooklyn, starting at Master's Barber Shop on Pitkin Avenue.

2:15 p.m.
Suggests that the city issue photo-identification cards called â€œBig Apple Cardsâ€ to all New Yorkers, as part of his continuing â€œKeys to the Cityâ€ tour, at the RJM Mini Market in Brooklyn.

Sal F. Albanese
Democrat

1 p.m.
Visits small businesses along 13th Avenue in Boro Park, starting at Eichler's Judaica Store.

6:20 p.m.
Greets moviegoers beforehand and then attends screening of â€œZipper: Coney Island's Last Wild Ride,â€ a documentary that takes a sober look at the redevelopment of Coney Island, and some of the special interests behind it, at the IFC Center on Sixth Avenue.

George T. McDonald
Republican

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Big Ticket | $29 Million on Central Park West

A three-bedroom condo near the pinnacle of the 35-story tower portion includes a paneled library and a living room with Venetian plaster walls.

Marilynn K. Yee/The New York Times A three-bedroom condo near the pinnacle of the 35-story tower portion includes a paneled library and a living room with Venetian plaster walls.

A sleekly appointed seven-room condominium at 15 Central Park West, the elaborate and exclusive limestone destination designed by Robert A.M. Stern, sold for $29 million and was the most expensive sale of the week, according to city records.

The 3,173-square-foot residence, No. 33D, is near the pinnacle of the 35-story tower portion of 15 Central Park West, which occupies a full city block at 61st Street. The unit's lofty stature affords it unobstructed views of the Hudson River, Central Park and the city skyline. Monthly carrying charges are $5,674, and a storage unit transfers with the apartment.

The three-bedroom, four-bath home has 11-foot ceilings and mahogany doors. The corner living and dining rooms have Venetian plaster walls, floor-to-ceiling windows with views of the reservoir, and a 16-foot bay window that faces east toward the park. The library is paneled in tiger-striped maple and has built-in bookcases, and there is a chef's kitchen with a center island and a glass pass-through to a den whose park views lend â€œgreat roomâ€ ambience.

All three bedrooms have en-suite baths, and the voluminous master suite has western and northern exposures toward the Hudson and Lincoln Center, as well as two walk-in closets and a bath with a double vanity and heated floors.

The sellers are Zachary Jared Schreiber, a founder and the chairman of the hedge fund PointState Capital, and his wife, Lori Fisher Schreiber. They bought the apartment for $11.19 million in 2008, the year 15 Central Park West was completed, but last year moved directly across the park to a six-bedroom full-floor co-op at 1030 Park Avenue and 62nd Street that they bought for $31.5 million from George S. Blumenthal, a founder of Cellular Communications, its owner since 1995. The Schreibers' West Side residence was first listed for sale for $31.5 million in 2011 but was removed from the market last year.

The anonymous buyer of the Schreiber apartment was a limited-liability company, the Mussik Capital Corporation. Kyle W. Blackmon of Brown Harris Stevens, himself an early buyer at 15 Central Park West, represented both sides of the transaction. Mr. Blackmon, who according to Real Trends recorded $328,875,500 in residential sales in 2012, has been involved in the sales of more than a dozen condominiums at 15 Central Park West and currently has the $32 million listing for a five-bedroom, five-and-a-half-bath unit there among his active listings.

A $21 million sale at a lavish co-op on the Fifth Avenue side of the park was the week's second-most-expensive transaction, and its most intriguing: the luxurious duplex apartment at 960 Fifth Avenue, No. 10/11B, that was the longtime home of Charles Lazarus, the billionaire founder of Toys â€œRâ€ Us, was bought by a fellow billionaire, Carlos Rodriguez-Pastor, a Peruvian financier ranked as his country's second-wealthiest resident.

Apparently Mr. Rodriguez-Pastor, who has a primary residence in Lima, Peru, and a previous Manhattan address at the Chatham, at 181 East 65th Street, felt the need for a city pied-Ã -terre with greater privacy and a more historic pedigree. His new Fifth Avenue address, whose nearest cross street is 77th, was designed by Warren & Wetmore, one of the primary architecture firms responsible for Grand Central Terminal; the supervisory architects for the co-op, which was completed in 1928, were Rosario Candela and Cross & Cross. Two mansions, one of them the 121-room giant at 1 East 77th Street that was the childhood home of the reclusive heiress Huguette Clark, were razed to make way for the apartment house. Past and present residents of note include the decorator Sister Parish and the socialite Anne Bass, whose 10,000-square-foot sanctuary was decorated by Mark Hampton.

The most recent asking price was $25 million; the duplex had been on the market in 2011 with a different brokerage and an initial asking price of $29 million, reduced to $24.5 million before the listing expired. The monthly maintenance charge of $11,682 covers a veritable platinum package of amenities - everything from a penthouse fitness center to a residents-only restaurant, the Georgian Suite, at 1A East 77th Street with, naturally, its own French chef.

The 11-room duplex has a 30-by-18-foot living room that faces directly onto the park, as does the library. A formal dining room, an eat-in kitchen with gourmet fittings, and two staff rooms complete the lower level. Upstairs on the private bedroom level are three bedrooms with en-suite baths, the most prominent being the statement-making master suite with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the park and two full dressing rooms.

Roderick Waywell of Charles Rutenberg Realty, who handled both sides of the deal, declined to comment because of a confidentiality agreement.

Big Ticket includes closed sales from the previous week, ending Wednesday.

Week in Pictures for Aug. 9

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Here is a slide show of photographs from the past week in New York City and the region. Subjects include former Gov. Eliot Spitzer in Queens, a campsite on Governors Island, and Playground 52 in the South Bronx.

This weekend on â€œThe New York Times Close Up,â€ an inside look at the most compelling articles in the Sunday newspaper, Sam Roberts will speak with The Times's Javier C. HernÃ¡ndez, Eleanor Randolph and Michael Barbaro. Also, Bill de Blasio, a mayoral candidate. Tune in at 10 p.m. Saturday or 10 a.m. Sunday on NY1 News to watch.

A sampling from the City Room blog is featured daily in the main print news section of The Times. You may also read current New York headlines, like New York Metro | The New York Times on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Aug. 10: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Nicholas Wells and Kenan Christiansen contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April '

Events by candidate

Catsimatidis

De Blasio

Lhota

Liu

Salgado

Thompson

Weiner

Group event

John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

11 a.m.
While William C. Thompson Jr. is wooing Rabbi Marc Schneier's flock in the Hamptons tonight at the end of Sabbath, Mr. Catsimatidis will be the guest speaker this morning at Park East Synagogue, the prominent Upper East Side institution that has long been headed by Rabbi Schneier's cosmopolitan father, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, on 68th Street.

1 p.m.
Attends Christ Tabernacle Church Carnival, accompanied by Serphin R. Maltese, a former state senator, and the Rev. Joe D'Agostino, in Glendale, Queens.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

9:20 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

11:30 a.m.
Addresses congregants, at the Queens Faith Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica, Queens.

12:30 p.m.
Speaks at his second service of the day, the Hollis Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, at the Hollis Presbyterian Church in Hollis, Queens.

5:30 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert series, featuring Nick Lowe, Jason Isbell and the Rockin' Rockabilly Revue, at the Damrosch Park bandshell on West 62nd Street.

7:15 p.m.
Addresses a Seventh-day Adventist outdoor service, on Utica Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

7:45 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring They Might Be Giants and Moon Hooch, at the Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

12 a.m.
Delivers remarks at the opening ceremony of the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens.

9:30 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

11 a.m.
Stops in at an open house at his campaign's Staten Island office, on Hylan Boulevard.

1 p.m.
Attends the 12th annual Detective Keith L. Williams Family Day along with Councilman Leroy Comrie and the activist Nicole Paultre Bell, in memory of a New York City police detective who was killed by a prisoner he was returning to Rikers Island in 1989, at Liberty Park in Jamaica, Queens.

1:25 p.m.
Attends the annual Friends for Life Family Barbecue, hosted by the King of Kings Foundation, aimed at educating youth on the dangers of succumbing to a drug-centered lifestyle, on 142nd Street in Jamaica, Queens.

1:45 p.m.
Attends the first of six New York City Housing Authority Family Days on his afternoon calendar, at the South Jamaica Houses in Queens.

2:45 p.m.
Visits his second New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Lafayette Gardens in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

3:15 p.m.
Attends his third New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Baruch Houses in Lower Manhattan.

3:50 p.m.
Attends a rally for Ramarley Graham, a Bronx teenager who was shot to death by a New York City police officer in his parents' home in 2012. He will be joined by the teenager's father, Frank Graham, in Wakefield, the Bronx.

4:40 p.m.
Attends his fourth New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Edenwald Houses in the Bronx.

5 p.m.
Visits his fifth New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Boston Secor Houses in the Bronx.

5:35 p.m.
Stops in at his sixth and final New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Dyckman Houses in Upper Manhattan.

6:20 p.m.
As part of Harlem Week, attends Great Jazz on the Great Hill, featuring live performances by The Harlem Renaissance Orchestra and The Bobby Sanabria Big Band, at the Great Hill of Central Park.

6:35 p.m.
Celebrates Id al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, along with State Senator Bill Perkins at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem.

7:25 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring They Might Be
Giants and Moon Hooch, at the Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

4 p.m.
Attends the opening of a campaign office for Craig Caruana, a City Council candidate, on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, Queens.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

9:15 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that she will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

Some of Ms. Quinn's events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

11:15 a.m.
Visits with residents at the North Shore Towers in Glen Oaks, Queens.

1 p.m.
Attends the first of three New York City Housing Authority Family Days on his afternoon calendar, at the Boston Secor Houses in the Bronx.

1:40 p.m.
Visits the second New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Edenwald Houses in the Bronx.

2:15 p.m.
Attends his third and final New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Bronxchester Houses in the Bronx.

3 p.m.
Marches in the Ghana Parade, starting at Claremont Parkway and Crotona Park East in the Bronx.

7:30 p.m.
Makes pilgrimage to Westhampton Beach to address Rabbi Marc Schneier's flock of vacationing New Yorkers over Seudah Shlishit, the parting meal before Sabbath ends. Just this summer, they have already heard from four other candidates for New York City's mayor, including John Catsimatidis, who happens to be spending the morning at the Manhattan synagogue that the rabbi's father has long run. But Mr. Thompson does have some history with the Hamptonites that his rivals lack, courtesy of his own father, a former Appellate Court judge. According to Rabbi Schneier, it was Mr. Thompson's father who ruled in the synagogue's favor, back in its embryonic days, after the Village of Westhampton Beach obtained a State Supreme Court injunction that would have barred the rabbi from holding services with as few as 10 people in his home. â€œIf it wasn't for Bill Thompson's father,â€ the rabbi recalled, â€œI wouldn't have had a synagogue here.â€

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9:20 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House of Justice in Harlem.

11:30 a.m.
Attends the Ecuadorian Festival with Assemblyman Francisco P. Moya, at
Corona Plaza, Queens.

12:45 p.m.
Goes door-to-door, canvassing residents in Astoria, Queens, starting at 34th Avenue and Crescent Street.

2:15 p.m.
Attends the Dance Theater of Harlem's annual street festival, at 152nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

3:15 p.m.
Attends the Manhattanville Residents Association Family Day, at the Manhattanville Houses on West 130th Street in Harlem.

Adolfo CarriÃ³n Jr.
Independent

4 p.m.
Attends the Dance Theater of Harlem's annual street festival, at 152nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

10 a.m.
Attends Christian Day Parade, in Long Island City, Queens.

12 p.m.
Distributes meals at his church's food pantry, at Iglesia Jovenes Cristianos in Brooklyn.

4 p.m.
Greets voters at a carnival on 24th Street in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

8 p.m.
Delivers a sermon at the Iglesias de EvangelizaciÃ³n Misionera in Gravesend, Brooklyn.

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â€˜Finding Nemo\' Sequel Is Altered in Response to Orcas Documentary

ANAHEIM, Calif. â€" â€œBlackfish,â€ the orcas-in-captivity documentary that has seared SeaWorld with negative publicity, prompted Pixar Animation Studios to rewrite part of its coming â€œFinding Nemoâ€ sequel.

The script for â€œFinding Dory,â€ which is still in the early stages of production ahead of its planned 2015 release, initially had an ending that involved a marine park, according to a Pixar employee. But as a result of the sometimes harsh â€œBlackfish,â€ directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite, and the resulting publicity battle SeaWorld has had to fight, Pixar decided to restructure that part of the story so that the fish and mammals taken to its aquatic center have the option to leave.

Walt Disney Studios, which includes Pixar, declined to comment.

Pixar movies change all the time while they are in the pipeline â€" that's one of the benefits of animation. But in addition to reflecting the impact of â€œBlackfish,â€ the tweak offers a rare peek into the creative workings at Pixar, which keeps extremely quiet about its films until they are ready for release. The overall story line of â€œFinding Doryâ€ is still a mystery, for instance.

John Lasseter, the Pixar co-founder, is scheduled to take the stage in Anaheim on Friday morning at D23 Expo, a sprawling Disney fan convention, for a presentation of the company's more immediate animated projects, including â€œThe Good Dinosaur,â€ which is set for release in the spring.

Book Review Podcast: Who Was T. E. Lawrence?

Emiliano Ponzi

In The New York Times Book Review, Alex von Tunzelmann reviews â€œLawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East,â€ Scott Anderson's new book about T. E. Lawrence. Ms. von Tunzelmann writes:

There have, of course, been shelf-loads of books on Lawrence and his sphere, and an extremely famous film. But the existence of previous works may trouble critics more than readers. After all, somebody keeps buying the stuff. Anderson, a veteran war correspondent and an author of both fiction and nonfiction, gives Lawrence's story a new spin by contextualizing him in a group biography. He weaves in the lives of three contemporary Middle Eastern spies: Curt PrÃ¼fer, a German conspiring with the Ottomans to bring down the British Empire; Aaron Aaronsohn, a Zionist agronomist of Romanian origin, settled in Palestine; and William Yale, an East Coast aristocrat and an agent of Standard Oil who ended up in the service of the American State Department. This allows him to bring in such rousingly modern themes as oil, jihad and Arab-Jewish conflict - though each of these was a markedly different prospect a century ago.

On this week's podcast, Mr. Anderson talks about Lawrence; Brenda Wineapple discusses â€œEcstatic Nationâ€; Leonard Marcus on the life and work of Randolph Caldecott; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

What Inspired You to Work in the Visual Arts?

This summer, The New York Times is publishing essays by its critics about the moments or works that prompted them to write about the arts, along with stories from readers about their own epiphanies. Previously we heard from readers who work in television, classical music, dance, pop music and video games.

Next week, Holland Cotter will write about what set him on the path toward becoming an art critic for The Times. We want to hear from visual arts professionals about what inspired their careers.

Whether you're a painter, a sculptor, a gallery owner, a curator, an art teacher, an administrator for an arts organization, a museum security guard or any other professional in the visual arts, we want to hear about the works of art or related experiences that led you to dedicate yourself to the field.

Please submit a comment below describing what you do and how an experience in the arts led you to your career. Keep submissions under 250 words.

We will present some of your stories alongside Mr. Cotter's essay. We look forward to reading about your artistic inspirations.

Artists Plan Their Sand Castles, Sponsorships Included

Karsten Moran for The New York Times Duke Riley with his manager, Kitty Joe Sainte-Marie, in his studio.

Updated, 6:24 p.m. | The drive-through window will be topped by a horseshoe crab, the menu board made of driftwood and the parking lot lined with seashells. That's the vision that the artist Duke Riley has for his entry into Creative Time's sand castle competition, which began on Rockaway Beach on Friday afternoon. If his design, a boxy building with a square turret, seems familiar â€" or hunger-inducing â€" that's the point.

â€œMy sand castle will be brought to you by White Castle restaurants,â€ Mr. Riley said. â€œIt will be a White Castle.â€

Mr. Riley, a Brooklyn artist known for tongue-in-cheek work like staging a naval battle in a reflecting pool, was not kidding around: his entry was indeed sponsored by White Castle. The company had promised to send over uniforms for his team, as well as a supply of burgers â€" â€œto potentially bribe the judges,â€ Mr. Riley explained.

Brian Harkin for The New York Times The competition on Friday afternoon.

It's still no biennial, but in its second year, this showdown, conceived of as a lark by the public arts organization Creative Time, has stepped up its game. Last year's champions, Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw, who won for constructing a human fountain â€" they sat atop piles of sand and spurted water at each other â€" will return as judges, alongside art world impresarios like Klaus Biesenbach, director of MoMA PS 1. They'll assess the 10 artistic teams invited by Creative Time, who all seem to be taking the endeavor pretty seriously, sketching plans way in advance, constructing mock-ups in their studios and addressing heavy concepts.

Duke Riley Duke Riley's plan for his sand White Castle.

Sebastian Errazuriz, an artist and designer, was mindful of the post-9/11 dread he feels whenever he sees the shadow of a plane cross his path. â€œThe proximity with the 12th anniversary of 9/11, the fragility of our sand constructions and the personal need to address this inherent fearâ€ all inspired his shadow-work design, which will â€œhopefully serve as both a memorial and a cleansing,â€ he wrote in an e-mail.

In her piece, Jamie Isenstein planned to play with the structures used to present work in galleries. â€œThis is an art crowd,â€ she said, â€œand people understand the pedestal and the cube.â€ After some research, she had jettisoned her original idea, to build a snowman, because it was too commonplace. â€œI thought it was impossible to make orbs out of sand, but with the right techniques, you can make pretty much anything,â€ she said. â€œPeople make snowmen out of sand on their beach vacations, take photos and then send them to people like, â€˜Merry Christmas!'â€

Brian Harkin for The New York Times Jamie Isenstein at work on Friday.

Still, Ms. Isenstein, a performance artist and sculptor, said she found the contest artistically fruitful. â€œI think a lot about ephemerality,â€ she said. â€œI do like the challenge of thinking about how to make a sculpture really fast and also I like the challenge of using a medium that I don't normally use.â€ There may be a sand snowman in her future, after all. â€œI go to the beach regularly but I never make sand castles,â€ she said. â€œBut now I think I will, because it turns out to be really fun.â€

High-mindedness aside, fun will definitely be a part of the competition. â€œWe are doing a kind of â€˜Spring Breakers' the movie meets Rockaway pirates mash-up,â€ Rachel Owens wrote, describing her idea to make witty beach-body T-shirts. The piece, she said, would be â€œabout hybrids â€" gender, racial, mechanical, and organic, all with a redneck-Riviera wink. And a dose of Brooklyn diversity!â€

And then there is Mr. Riley, who was a judge in the competition last year, so perhaps has a higher understanding of what it takes to win. His truck and studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, were filled with pungent kelp and bags of seashells; he collected the dead horseshoe crabs himself, wading into the water in Dead Horse Bay.

â€œAll these young people getting in the pro sand castle building game, they think it's all fast cars and endorsements, girls in bikinis,â€ he said. â€œBut you really got to have the drive and the commitment to make it all the way to the top.â€ (O.K., he allowed, there probably will be girls in bikinis.)

He speculated about the top prize. â€œThere's got to be some kind of parade or ring or something,â€ he said. â€œProduct endorsements, Wheaties boxes.â€

â€œThis is kind of the Grand Prix of sand castle-building competitions, isn't it?â€ he added.

Actually, no, it's not. The winner is awarded a gold-plated shovel, a bucketful of liquor, and $500. Runners-up receive only the shovels (in silver and bronze) and the booze.

But that did not dissuade Mr. Riley. â€œI know what it takes to be a champion and I intend to make it there on Friday,â€ he bragged this week.

Then again, he said: â€œYou never want to get too cocky in this game. There's always room for tragedy.â€

Jamie Isenstein won the gold shovel with â€œDisappearing Sculptures,â€ Esperanza Mayobre won silver with â€œRaft de la Esperanzaâ€ and Duke Riley took bronze with â€œWhite Castle.â€

The Creative Time Artist competition is free and open to the public. It opens at noon on the sand near Beach 86th Street on Rockaway Beach, Queens, with building beginning at 2 p.m. and judging at 5 p.m. An after-party follows at Rippers on the boardwalk. There is no rain date; check Creative Time's Twitter and Facebook pages for updates in case of cancellation.

Irving Penn Photographs to Bolster Smithsonian Collection

On Friday the Smithsonian American Art MuseumÂ announcedÂ that it had receivedÂ 100 imagesÂ by the 20th-century photographer Irving Penn as a giftÂ from theÂ Irving Penn Foundation, significantly broadening its collectionÂ of his work.

The images span eight decades, and include iconic and previously unseen images ranging from his early street photography of the American South and snapshots of Europe after World War II, to editorial and advertising photography for Vogue, to pictures of still life, self-portraits, and well-known portraits of Truman CapoteÂ andÂ Langston Hughes. The museum now has 161 of Penn's images, which it will display at an exhibit in the fall of 2015.

â€œWe were able to find and add a great many aspects that weren't well known,â€ Elizabeth Broun, the Margaret and Terry Stent director of the museum, said in a telephone interview. â€œPeople will see the familiar Penn as well as aÂ fuller, richer portrait of his achievements over his career.â€

The artist's son, Tom Penn, who is executive director of his foundation, said in a telephone interview that they â€œfelt that they should have additional work to fill out areas where they did not have any of his work.â€ He added: â€œHe was extremely remarkable in the diversity of his work. People will be surprised to see one person crossing all of those eras.â€

Aug. 10: Where the Candidates Are Today

Planned events for the mayoral candidates, according to the campaigns and organizations they are affiliated with. Times are listed as scheduled but frequently change.

Nicholas Wells and Kenan Christiansen contributed reporting.

Event information is listed as provided at the time of publication. Details for many of Ms. Quinn events are not released for publication.Maps of all campaign events since April Â»

Events by candidate

Catsimatidis

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John A. Catsimatidis
Republican

11 a.m.
While William C. Thompson Jr. is wooing Rabbi Marc Schneierâ€™s flock in the Hamptons tonight at the end of Sabbath, Mr. Catsimatidis will be the guest speaker this morning at Park East Synagogue, the prominent Upper East Side institution that has long been headed by Rabbi Schneierâ€™s cosmopolitan father, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, on 68th Street.

1 p.m.
Attends Christ Tabernacle Church Carnival, accompanied by Serphin R. Maltese, a former state senator, and the Rev. Joe Dâ€™Agostino, in Glendale, Queens.

Bill de Blasio
Democrat

9:20 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

11:30 a.m.
Addresses congregants, at the Queens Faith Temple Seventh-day Adventist Church in Jamaica, Queens.

12:30 p.m.
Speaks at his second service of the day, the Hollis Mission of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, at the Hollis Presbyterian Church in Hollis, Queens.

5:30 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at the Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert series, featuring Nick Lowe, Jason Isbell and the Rockinâ€™ Rockabilly Revue, at the Damrosch Park bandshell on West 62nd Street.

7:15 p.m.
Addresses a Seventh-day Adventist outdoor service, on Utica Avenue in East Flatbush, Brooklyn.

7:45 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring They Might Be Giants and Moon Hooch, at the Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn.

John C. Liu
Democrat

12 a.m.
Delivers remarks at the opening ceremony of the annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival, at Meadow Lake in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens.

9:30 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

11 a.m.
Stops in at an open house at his campaignâ€™s Staten Island office, on Hylan Boulevard.

1:45 p.m.
Attends the first of six New York City Housing Authority Family Days on his afternoon calendar, at the South Jamaica Houses in Queens.

2:45 p.m.
Visits his second New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Lafayette Gardens in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.

3:15 p.m.
Attends his third New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Baruch Houses in Lower Manhattan.

3:50 p.m.
Attends a rally for Ramarley Graham, a Bronx teenager who was shot to death by a New York City police officer in his parentsâ€™ home in 2012. He will be joined by the teenagerâ€™s father, Frank Graham, in Wakefield, the Bronx.

4:40 p.m.
Attends his fourth New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Edenwald Houses in the Bronx.

5 p.m.
Visits his fifth New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Boston Secor Houses in the Bronx.

5:35 p.m.
Stops in at his sixth and final New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Dyckman Houses in Upper Manhattan.

6:35 p.m.
Celebrates Id al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, along with State Senator Bill Perkins at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building in Harlem.

7:25 p.m.
Greets concertgoers at Celebrate Brooklyn!, featuring They Might Be
Giants and Moon Hooch, at the Prospect Park bandshell in Brooklyn.

Joseph J. Lhota
Republican

4 p.m.
Attends the opening of a campaign office for Craig Caruana, a City Council candidate, on Myrtle Avenue in Glendale, Queens.

Christine C. Quinn
Democrat

9:15 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that she will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

Some of Ms. Quinnâ€™s events may not be shown because the campaign declines to release her advance schedule for publication.

William C. Thompson Jr.
Democrat

9:30 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

11:15 a.m.
Visits with residents at the North Shore Towers in Glen Oaks, Queens.

1 p.m.
Attends the first of three New York City Housing Authority Family Days on his afternoon calendar, at the Boston Secor Houses in the Bronx.

1:40 p.m.
Visits the second New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Edenwald Houses in the Bronx.

2:15 p.m.
Attends his third and final New York City Housing Authority Family Day of the afternoon, at the Bronxchester Houses in the Bronx.

3 p.m.
Marches in the Ghana Parade, starting at Claremont Parkway and Crotona Park East in the Bronx.

7:30 p.m.
Makes pilgrimage to Westhampton Beach to address Rabbi Marc Schneierâ€™s flock of vacationing New Yorkers over Seudah Shlishit, the parting meal before Sabbath ends. Just this summer, they have already heard from four other candidates for New York Cityâ€™s mayor, including John Catsimatidis, who happens to be spending the morning at the Manhattan synagogue that the rabbiâ€™s father has long run. But Mr. Thompson does have some history with the Hamptonites that his rivals lack, courtesy of his own father, a former Appellate Court judge. According to Rabbi Schneier, it was Mr. Thompsonâ€™s father who ruled in the synagogueâ€™s favor, back in its embryonic days, after the Village of Westhampton Beach obtained a State Supreme Court injunction that would have barred the rabbi from holding services with as few as 10 people in his home. â€œIf it wasnâ€™t for Bill Thompsonâ€™s father,â€ the rabbi recalled, â€œI woudnâ€™t have had a synagogue here.â€

Anthony D. Weiner
Democrat

9:20 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House of Justice in Harlem.

11:30 a.m.
Attends the Ecuadorian Festival with Assemblyman Francisco P. Moya, at
Corona Plaza, Queens.

12:45 p.m.
Goes door-to-door, canvassing residents in Astoria, Queens, starting at 34th Avenue and Crescent Street.

2:15 p.m.
Attends the Dance Theater of Harlemâ€™s annual street festival, at 152nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

3:15 p.m.
Attends the Manhattanville Residents Association Family Day, at the Manhattanville Houses on West 130th Street in Harlem.

Adolfo CarriÃ³n Jr.
Independent

9:20 a.m.
Joins a news conference, with the Rev. Al Sharpton and other mayoral
hopefuls, to announce that he will join the National Action Network in
Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.â€™s â€œI Have A Dreamâ€ speech, at the House
of Justice in Harlem.

4 p.m.
Attends the Dance Theater of Harlemâ€™s annual street festival, at 152nd Street and St. Nicholas Avenue.

Erick J. Salgado
Democrat

10 a.m.
Attends Christian Day Parade, in Long Island City, Queens.

12 p.m.
Distributes meals at his churchâ€™s food pantry, at Iglesia Jovenes Cristianos in Brooklyn.