ARTS: USE OTHER DOOR One of the defining attributes of Nancy Good’s Core Contemporary gallery is the big-swing ideas it incorporates into its programming—not just asking its guests to think about the art, but encouraging the artists themselves to consider their methods and themes. Core’s fifth-annual Use Other Door exhibit, curated by Good and Anthony Bondi, is a prime example of this approach: It asks its artists to consider what their “other door” could be, whether it’s a metaphor for a path not taken or, you know, an actual door. And what a group of talents has risen to the challenge: Nevada artists Daryl Bibicoff, Diane Bush, Glynn Galloway, Michelle Graves, Kim Johnson, Ginka Mitova, Erika Muecke, Chad Scott, Linda Shaffer, Allison Streater, Leon Syfrit and Shahab Zargari, and visiting artists Brandin Baron, Malcolm Easton and Louise Vickerman. Use Other Door will show through September 30, at which point Core Contemporary will shut this doorway to ideas and open another one. Opening reception 6 p.m., free, Core Contemporary, corecontemporary.com. –Geoff Carter