The headlining exhibition now at Bellevue Arts Museum is A World of Paper, A World of Fashion: Isabelle de Borchgrave Meets Mariano Fortuny, featuring the Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave and co-organized by Borchgrave's studio and BAM.

To me, unfortunately, A World of Paper is a big production that maybe wasn't quite worth the effort. Its links to historic fashion/fabric mogul Fortuny are fairly interesting, but Borchgrave's garments—everything entirely made of paper—are just not that spectacularly neat-o. They look a little weary from their travels, and the trompe l'oeil effects of paper are growing thin considering that every other artist these days seems to use paper to make itself not look like paper.

If you're into art, fashion, and paper that looks like it's not paper, you may prefer to take yourself to Curtis Steiner's store in Ballard, which is open every day of the week this season. He's featuring Seattle artist Patty Grazini, and her latest pieces are tiny dioramas of dresses, shoes, and props lifted from famous paintings of women by Matisse, Rembrandt, Picasso, Manet, Goya, and many more, along with handwritten plaques containing the stories of their lives and relationships with the artists.

Grazini's details are exquisite, and, well, highly detailed: a pair of teeny, tiny shoes; a dress so frilly it makes your eyes spin; a dog; a table. By comparison, Borchgrave's fashions at BAM feel clunky, like fat hands.

Now I'm not saying you shouldn't go to BAM. There are two other exhibitions worth the time: Rick Araluce's pristine, neo-noir miniature environments, with hidden parts visible only through peepholes and grates and cracks under doors; and the triple exhibition of painted glass vessels by Cappy Thompson (it feels like there are too many here, but focus on one of the personal pieces about miscarriage and you'll begin to fall in love with this artist if you aren't already), more paper by Nate Steigenga (I kind of prefer the less overtly outré stuff he was making earlier), and post-punk quilts by Anna Torma.