An Evening of Sin revolves around Franz von Stuck’s most famous painting, the 1893 femme fatale nude Sin, which is just luscious and ridiculous enough to have made great album art for the right ’80s hair band. Stranger Genius Award winner Victoria Haven will talk, choreographer Zoe Scofield and her dancers will perform, and poets and breakdancers will join in. I only wish they were taking confessions, too. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 922-6250. 7 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...