Tonight’s the night when you get to meet the visual art finalists for this year’s Stranger Genius Award: painter/writer/organizer Matthew Offenbacher, painter/sculptor Sherry Markovitz, and video artist Rodrigo Valenzuela. Questions to consider asking them: What does Offenbacher’s puppet say? Why does Markovitz pile up the bodies? How is Valenzuela’s art wrong when it feels so right? Plus, you get to wander around in a museum after-hours, drink cocktails, and after all that, head over to Vito’s for a secret drink special. There are Five Nights of Genius—consecutive Wednesdays at the Frye—and this is the third. Come to them all! (Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry Ave, fryemuseum.org, 5:30 pm, $10, 21+)

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...