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.)