Before even-keeled Michael Darling, before take-charge Lisa Corrin, before academic Trevor Fairbrother, there was Patterson Sims, the notoriously charming Seattle Art Museum curator who could always get a collector on the phone and an artwork in the museum's vault. Now he's directing the Montclair Museum of Art in New Jersey, where he put together Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands. The Newark artist's mashups of African, modern, and consumer stuff are visiting the Frye, and Sims is back for a one-night stand. (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, 622-9250. 7 pm, free.)