Once every few months, a regular family home on Beacon Hill is turned into a den of art: art on the kitchen counter, art in the recycling bin, art on the stairs, art on the pillows on the master bed, art in the shower. Each open house at NEPO House lasts one night only and is created by a slew of the best artists in the city, who are happy to participate despite the lack of payment of any kind. The organizer is artist Klara Glosova (it’s her house), and tonight’s theme is “Back to School, Back to Earth Special!”—the artists, going by pseudonyms (“Mrs. Evelyn ShaBOOBY”), performed experiments on themselves and present their results in the form of a natural history museum. (NEPO House, 1723 S Lander St, www
.pictureband.com/nepo.html, 6 pm–midnight, free)

Jen Graves (The Stranger’s former arts critic) mostly writes about things you approach with your eyeballs. But she’s also a history nerd interested in anything that needs more talking about, from male...