Throughout the day we’ve been reaching out to people in New York’s art world to see how they’re handling the storm. Some of their stories are below. We’ll be updating this post throughout the evening and tomorrow.

** Earlier today, painter Natalie Frank—who has a solo show on view at Fredericks & Freiser in Chelsea through Nov. 3—was safely inside, roasting potatoes on East 19th Street. She’d already taken steps to protect her artwork. “I did majorly clear out my studio in Bushwick,” she told us over e-mail. “I’m nervous about that—all [the] drawings in a six-foot-tall flat file.” She was disappointed about another side effect of Sandy. “Bummed Martin Amis was cancelled tonight at the Y,” she wrote.

** MoMA PS1 director and MoMA chief curator at large, Klaus Biesenbach, has had an especially busy storm weekend. After evacuating his place on Rockaway Beach at 86th Street on Sunday, he hosted a Halloween carnival and parade with Courtney Loveat PS1. He’s spending the day at his apartment on the Lower East Side, and has moved the planters he has on his balcony into his apartment. “I cannot open the balcony door at the moment,” he said. “The wind is too strong…” Before leaving Rockaway, he made sure to secure his garden, but he’s worried it may get damaged. “I just planted birches on Saturday,” he wrote. “I fear the planting is gone.” He added, “Rockaway is the most most beautiful part of New York (period). Beauty is always at risk…..”

** Painter Deborah Kassjust got back from the opening of her solo show at Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum yesterday afternoon with her wife, artist Patricia Cronin. She wrote in an e-mail that she’s “wondering why after the best weekend of my life I have to deal immediately with the storm of the century, shit from the Gowanus floating into my backyard and trees falling on my house!! damn!” She added, “I was too high from the show to worry about the hurricane till about 4 in the morning when I shot out of bed and started taping plastic to the doors and fussing with the basement.” Ms. Cronin has made a pot of soup, and Ms. Kass has moved the car to an open parking lot, far from trees.

** Over in Chelsea, Postmasters gallery co-owner Magdalena Sawon was readying her gallery for the full brunt of the storm. She shares in an e-mail:

“We just lifted vulnerable art from ‘on the floor’ to 3-4 feet up. Moved archives and tools from basement….We are fifty feet outside of zone A (between 9 & 10) so there is some advantage. We are monitoring the surge as to whether to do sandbagging.”

** This morning, Nancy Reddin Kienholz was at Pace Gallery’s 25th Street space, working with a team of installers to prepare a major show of work that she and her husband made in the 1980s. It’s set to open on Thursday, and they seemed to be making good progress. “We all understand earthquakes in California,” Ms. Kienholz told us. “But we don’t understand hurricanes.”

Stay safe out there, folks.