Argentine-born artist Sergio Vega’s ongoing
project El
Paraiso en el Nuevo Mundo (Paradise
in the New World)
has been called, by critic
Holland Cotter, “part religious
history, part
fictional epic, and part tropical heat
dream.”
It’s a series of photographs, sculptures, videos,

and diaries documenting Vega’s relationship
to a 1650 book by
the same name. For a new
chapter at Open Satellite, Vega expands
his
focus on colonialism and resettlement into
glittering
Klondike gold rush territory. (Open Satellite, 989 112th Ave NE,
Bellevue, 425-454-7355. Opening 6:30–9:30 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...