Or maybe the deal will grow so complicated and interwoven that, as the Journal's Kevin Clark wrote on Twitter, the Magic will accidentally wind up trading Howard back to themselves.
Beneath a railway bridge, Swiss artist Franziska Furter's "Mojo" (2012), a colorful concoction of magic amulets, hangs like a chandelier, moving and tinkling with the wind.
But Ault, who moved to Singapore three years ago, says he "no longer feels the magic" in Gotham, which still bears the scars of a financial crisis that knocked the wind out of much of its most extravagant party culture.