Picture perfect
That blank space over your couch driving you crazy? Hang some art over it — not another poster, but an original work by someone who's yet to be discovered. That's the allure of the Affordable Art Fair, the resource for folks whose budgets stop far shy of Sotheby's. With thousands of prints, photos, etchings and more priced from $100 to $10,000, it's the Loehmann's of art sales. This year's crop, says director Cristina Salmastrelli, is especially promising: "When you look at Richard Heeps' 'Candy Floss' photos — that's British for cotton candy — you can smell the sugar." At $100 each, she says, they'd be great in a kids' room. But so would William Kingett's "Post New York," a silk-screen reinterpretation of one of the most famous logos in the world ($200 unframed). Not only will Salmastrelli act as a personal shopper this weekend, but there'll be children's workshops, free talks and a cafe. Through Sunday, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, 125 W. 18th St.; affordableartfair.com/newyork; admission free Friday, 6 to 8 p.m.; other times, $15 online, $20 at the door.
— Barbara Hoffman
Still grazing
We asked legendary trumpeter Hugh Masekela, who turns 75 Friday, how long he plans to continue playing and touring. "As long as I'm able to," the South African musician laughs. "It's far more enjoyable than sitting on the porch and watching the sunset!" This weekend, Masekela looks back on a lengthy career that includes the first-ever African jazz album (as part of the Jazz Epistles); a top pop hit, "Grazing in the Grass"; Paul Simon's "Graceland" tour; and more than 40 albums with a two-night Jazz at Lincoln Center birthday gala at Rose Hall. The first show features Simon, who "reached people who had never even heard of South African music or apartheid," says Masekela, exiled from home for 30 years before his triumphant, post-apartheid return. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., at Broadway and 60th Street; jalc.org. Tickets start at $30.
— Charlie Heller
It's clown town
He's headlined Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey and the Big Apple Circus. Now clown Bello Nock is headlining his own show, "Bello Mania," at the intimate New Victory Theater. It's a family affair, written and directed by his wife, Jennifer, and featuring his 19-year-old daughter, Annaleise.
"She's an eighth-generation circus performer and will be doing things as beautiful and death-defying as splits on a high-wire and an aerial acrobatics act," says her proud father.
Although the show includes trademark Bello stunts — such as climbing up a swaying 40-foot pole — he promises 50 percent of the act will be new, including guest performer AJ Silver, a Bronx-born cowboy who sometimes rode his horse to school.
Bello's distinctive visual trademark is his foot-high red hair that resembles a tall stack of wheat. It's all natural, he says, adding, "Am I allowed to say that I put Viagra in my shampoo?"
Friday through April 20 at 209 W. 42nd St.; newvictory.org. Tickets, $14 to $38.
—Frank Scheck
A-muse-ing
The muse in movies has been around for years. Decades before Martin Scorsese teamed up with Leonardo DiCaprio for several films, director Josef von Sternberg found his muse in sometime-lover Marlene Dietrich, whom he made an international superstar in "The Blue Angel'' (1930). BAM Cinematek is showing all seven of their collaborations through Thursday. Arguably the best, unreeling Friday at 4 and 8 p.m., is the gorgeously photographed (Lee Garmes won an Oscar) "Shanghai Express'' (1932), with Marlene's fallen woman Shanghai Lily traveling through strife-ridden China with Clive Brook, warlord Warner Oland, Anna May Wong, Eugene Pallette and the immortal Gustav von Seyffertitz. Lafayette Avenue at St. Felix Street, Fort Greene. Info: bam.org.
— Lou Lumenick
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