Crawl Space’s openings are great parties, and Buddy Bunting’s great
big, stark portraits of remote places—like his minimalist drawing
of the Two Rivers Correctional Institution in Umatilla, Oregon,
installed on a 32-foot wall built for this show, which is archly titled
High Living—are lonely as hell. The party will help
to bring you back from the brink of the art. (Crawl Space Gallery,
504 E Denny Way #1, 201-2441. 6–9 pm, 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...