By JEN CARLSON -Gothamist
So just where was artist Yoshimoto Nara tossing back a few before his arrest in February? Prior to getting arrested for drawing some smiley face graffiti on the L platform, he was at Niagara bar in the East Village. He adorned the place with original artwork on the walls there, too, but the owners didn’t try to arrest him, instead they put it under plexiglass to preserve it.