Collage is, as Max Ernst described it, the noble conquest of the irrational. Every time the Henry turns over its galleries,
it stages a giant, swarmy collage of a party. This one involves hot dogs, cupcakes, beer, video from the last days of the Belgian Congo projected in a thatched hut (by Isabelle Pauwels of Vancouver, BC), historic shoes pulled from the museum’s collections storage, and a refreshingly nerdy new angle on an established artist (Kiki Smith, a sculptor and printmaker, here seen in terms of photography). (Henry Art Gallery, 4100 15th Ave NE, 543-2280. 8–11 pm, $10.)

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...