Last year at this time, the artists NKO, No Touching Ground, and Dan Hawkins created and documented a huge painting-and-sculpture installation inside an abandoned, derelict peanut butter factory in Georgetown. It was illegal, so they couldn’t advertise the location, meaning almost nobody could visit—and then the building accidentally burned down. The art was already about disappeared pasts, with crucifix symbols lifted from an Alaskan cemetery where No Touching Ground goes to work for part of the year. Now a ghost of the ghost appears in the gallery at 4Culture, which, depending on legislative decisions this month, could become a ghost itself. (Gallery4Culture, 101 Prefontaine Pl S, 296-8674, 9 am–5 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... More by Jen Graves
More money for the Tunnel Of Underwater Doom, right?
After all, why not overspend on that instead of useful stuff that helps.