SERIOUSLY, FOLKS “Neo Sincerity: The Difference Between the Comic and the Cosmic Is a Single Letter,” curated by Amei Wallach, is on display at apexart. The exhibit is organized around cartoonist Art Spiegelman’s proposal, in response to post-September 11 irony, for a kind of “neo sincerity.” It would consist of, in his words, “sincerity built on a thorough grounding in irony, but that allows one to actually make a statement about what one believes in.” The works on display address serious issues with touches of humor. Above is a detail of Bill Anthony’s “Feminist Andrea Dworkin Thinks Rape Victims Should Be Able To Execute Their Attackers Personally” (2006). At left is a scene from Paul Zaloom’s shadow-puppet play “The Mother of All Enemies,” whose hero is a queer secular humanist Quaker agnostic Syrian (Thursday, March 30, through Sunday, April 9, Thursday and Friday, 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 3 and 7:30 p.m., Collective: Unconscious, 279 Church St., between White and Franklin streets, 212-352-3101, $15 general, $12 seniors and students). Exhibit: Through Saturday, April 8, Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., apexart, 291 Church St., between Walker and White streets, 212-431-5270, free.

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