They thought cartoon school would be easy. They drew the wrong conclusion.

Each fall The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 of the world's most promising aspiring cartoonists and graphic novelists to the ramshackle village of White River Junction, Vermont for a no-holds-barred education in comics. Those who complete the two-year program earn a Master of Fine Arts degree and are ready to face the uncertainty of a career in one of the world’s most labor-intensive, drudgery-inducing art forms. Cartoon College is their story.

Featuring a who's-who of the biggest names in literary comics, including Chris Ware, Lynda Barry, Art Spiegelman, Francoise Mouly, Scott McCloud, Jason Lutes, and James Sturm, among many others, as well as the music of Beulah, Archers of Loaf, Portastatic, Tortoise, Tokyo Police Club, Quinn Marston, The Hot IQs, Fire Tapes, and an original score by Jason Zumpano, Cartoon College is a fast-paced look at a school where the stakes are high and spilled ink and tears are often the only reward. Available on iTunes. Featured in DART.

Friday, July 5

The French Embassy and Films on the Green present, 8:30 pm: Heartbreaker  (Dir. Pascal Chaumeil, 2010). Tompkins Square Park, NY, NY. Free. Summer schedule.

Sculptures on display in the Ossining in 3D exhibition, clockwise from top left: “Totem” by Antoinette Prien Schultze; “Homenaje a Carlos Zook” by Peter Barret; “Crossroads Aerie” by Sarah Haviland; “Blue Moon” by Cathrin Hoskinson; “Woman in the Sun Seated” by Leonda Froehlich Finke. Photographs by Craig Cooper for The New York Times.

In Ossining, NY, Saturday, July 6

As the cornerstone of its Bicentennial celebration, the Village of Ossining organized a major outdoor sculpture show, which consists of 25 large-scale contemporary works sited in the historic downtown and waterfront district (above). Richard A. Leins, the village manager, said, ““We’ve put this super modern sculpture in front of our old architecture to take the village into its third century.”

The Ossining in 3D sculpture exhibition was curated by Ann Jon, a sculptor and the founder of SculptureNow, a nonprofit arts organization in the Berkshires. The 24 participating artists range in age from 33 to 91; most live in the northeast, with two from Westchester. All of the works are for sale. Visitors can take a free, docent-led walking tour of the sculptures on Saturday, July 6th [or any other "first Saturday" until the beginning of October]. Or they can follow a red line painted along the sidewalks for a 1.5-mile self-guided tour, with the locations of the sculptures marked by a stenciled image of the Double Arch.

Ossining in 3D: Bicentennial Sculpture Exhibit is on view in Ossining through Oct. 26. For information about docent-led tours. For all other information click or (914) 941-3554.

In Paris

Ahae | The Extraordinary Within the Ordinary, continuing through September 9^th at the Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles. Unfolding through the hours and the seasons, the 220 photographs of pristine nature depict the day’s cycle and everything the photographer sees from his window: animals, movement, shadow and light. The exhibition is open every day from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm. Free. In conjunction with Année le Nôtre, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the birth of the master landscape architect of the Palace of Versailles, André Le Nôtre (1613-1700).

In conjunction with the exhibition, Assouline is publishing AHAE Château de Versailles. Information.