A High-Water Mark
Dread Scott's "They Left Us Here to Die" memorializes victims of the hurricane. (By Dread Scott -- Civilian Art Projects)
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· A surprisingly affecting group show, "Way Down in New Orleans" memorializes the Crescent City's Hurricane Katrina travails. Dread Scott's elegiac installation -- posters of Katrina dead plastered on massive sheets of plywood of the kind used to protect storm-threatened homes -- marks the show's emotional center. Yet even the simplest print collage depicting a utility pole notched with past flood heights (Katrina tops a catastrophic 1849 levee breach) proves mournful.
Way Down in New Orleans at Civilian Art Projects, 406 Seventh St. NW, Wednesday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m., 202-347-0022, to Oct. 11.http:/
