Art
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ON THE ROAD School’s out, but school buses still rule the road in paintings by Barbara Friedman, who places them on long roads in rural settings. Other familiar images she paints are lawn chairs and windshield wipers. They are on view in the exhibit “Places We Have Known.” Through Saturday, July 9, Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m., Paul Sharpe Gallery, 96 Walker St., between Broadway and Lafayette Street, sixth floor, 646-613-1252, free.
TIN MAN Artist John Coffer blends 19th century wet-plate collodion photographic techniques with 21st-century digital animation for the works in his show “The Interactive Tintype.”The exhibit also includes tintypes that achieve a 3-dimensional effect when viewed through a stereo-viewer and a series of 20- by 24-inch tintypes that are among the largest ever made. Through Sunday, Friday and Saturday, noon-7 p.m., Sunday, 1-6 p.m., Kerrigan Campbell art + projects, 317 E. 9th St., between First and Second avenues, 212-505-7196, free.
NEW AT MOMA Acquisitions made by the Museum of Modern Art’s Fund for the 21st Century are on display in “New Work/New Acquisitions,” an exhibit of 20 works of art made primarily since 2001 by such artists as Fang Lijun, Rivane Neuenschwander, Paul Chan, and Neo Rauch. June 29-September 26, the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd street between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-708-9400, $20 general, $16 seniors, $12 students.
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