Contributed by Jonathan Stevenson / The painter Nora Griffin, nonpareil chronicler of New York City, grew up in Noho as her father George conjured, as she puts it, “a sweeter version of R. Crumb’s debased Zap comix” and helped pave her way as an artist. Fierman’s current show “Time Café,” named for the restaurant that anchored the neighborhood, galvanically pairs the two, complementing Nora’s shrewdly lyrical paintings with George’s quizzical drawings, flip-books, and avant-garde cartoons. The result is a deeply plumbed sampling of 1970s and ‘80s New York and what it wrought, poised between nostalgic commemoration and acknowledged perpetuity – a duality reflected in Nora’s 2026 portrait of her father circa 1976, one profile looking reflective and the other anticipatory. Ultimately, both artists understand that any desperation in extending sentimentality to the city is likely unwarranted because its susceptibility to discomfitingly rapid change – the “New York minute” – is largely a myth, its past firmly embedded and there to see. Their mission, undertaken exuberantly, is to record it in context.