Mandy Greer takes craft as far as it can go—and then much,
much further. At Bumbershoot in 2006, she filled a room (and caused a
backed-up line of viewers) with a pile of obsessively sewn and
crocheted entrails. Now Bellevue Arts Museum is displaying her
largest and most intricate installation to date, a new work based on
Greer’s interpretation of Jacopo Tintoretto’s painting The Origin of
the Milky Way. “It’s about broken me,” the artist wrote in
an e-mail. (Bellevue Arts Museum, 510 Bellevue Way NE, 425-519-0770.
10 am–5:30 pm, $7.)

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...