Apex Art
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Kurt Vonnegut, Trout's Tomb, Courtesy Dave Eggers
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Opens Wednesday Apr 2, 2008 (6–8pm)
Apr 3, 2008 – May 10, 2008
Tuesdays–Saturdays (11am–6pm)
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Author and McSweeney's founder Dave Eggers curates this show of whip-smart, witty one-liners, selected for their playful mix of text and image. The list of contributors behind the 128 works on display — including Basquiat, Leonard Cohen, R. Crumb, Henry Darger, and Kenneth Koch — reads like the wall text for a modern-day School of Athens populated by snarky geniuses. Marcel Duchamp's mustached Mona Lisa, LHOOQ (meaning, "She has a nice ass," when the letters are pronounced in French), is displayed alongside an original lithograph by Kurt Vonnegut and Bulgarian Nedko Solakov's untitled ink-drawing series inviting you to recline on a fully functioning massage table.
