This art show is at a nursing home. The 2010 Stranger Genius in Visual Art, Susie Lee, first got to know the residents. She then asked them to pose for video portraits—each portrait is a reenactment of a Goya “black” painting, the ones found on the walls of his home after his death. Lee turned the camera on each subject for a half hour, and the portraits are the results of that real slice of time: no edits, no second takes. Visitors have mistaken the framed videos for live feeds from the rooms; residents wheel up and watch themselves for hours. Still Lives is quietly epic. (Washington Care Center, 2821 S Walden St, 725-2800, 8 am–7:30 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...