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Grateful Dead-Inspired Art Show Intends to 'Move Minds'

 'The Transportation Business' was inspired by the work of the Grateful Dead.
'The Transportation Business' was inspired by the work of the Grateful Dead.
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CHELSEA — "We're not in the music business, we're in the transportation business," Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart reportedly said of the band. "We move minds."

A new art show at the Jane Lombard Gallery in Chelsea pays tribute to this idea.

"The band’s live concerts, but also individual songs, involved improvisation and discovery, risk and pleasure, breakthroughs and mistakes, and both band and audience went on a collective, exhilarating, deeply human voyage," the show's website says.

The Transportation Business attempts to channel this voyage with an international array of visual artists and one poet. The work, from cosmic paintings to underwater photographs to a "consciousness-altering" copy of a negative, is meant to take viewers on a strange trip.

But don't expect skeletons and roses; the tribute is conceptual.

"These works offer ample visual pleasure, take you to surprising places, and trigger heightened consciousness," the website says.

The show opened July 1 and closes Aug. 14 at 518 W. 19th St. in Chelsea.