VISUAL ART Roughly 150 Picasso pieces, on loan from Paris, have arrived at Seattle Art Museum. Want to sneak a peek before the exhibit opens tomorrow? Click here.

In addition to the monumental Picasso exhibit, there’s all new work at Henry Art, the Frye, Greg Kucera, and the Burke Museum worth checking out today. (Reminder: It’s First Thursday, so galleries and museums will be open late.)

COMEDY Clean comedy will get you…everywhere. Mild-mannered Jim Gaffigan has been a regular on Conan O’Brien and Letterman; done TV, film, and commercials; and stars as a pasty superhero on animated short “Pale Force.” This weekend, he brings his stand-up act to the Paramount. Oct 8 & 9.

CONCERT NW rockers Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs, John Roderick, Kristen Ward, and more pay tribute to John Lennon on the 70th anniversary of his birth, Saturday night at the Triple Door. Luke Burbank, host of podcast “Too Beautiful to Live” and subject of a recent Seattle Met interview, will MC.

THEATER I challenged myself to go to four plays in four nights this week (I’m a little crazy), in honor of the upcoming Theatre Week for Arts Crush. Two down (5th Avenue Theatre’s In the Heights and Seattle Rep’s God of Carnage), two to go (Book-it’s Cider House Rules, Part II and WET’s Sextet). So far, God of Carnage is your best bet this weekend. I’ll let you know how the rest fare.

DANCE There are at least three dance performances this weekend that deserve your time: biennial event Against the Grain: Men in Dance, featuring some of Seattle’s top choreographers and dancers (Peter Boal and Donald Byrd among them), at Broadway Performance Hall; avant-garde French choreographer Christian Rizzo’s collaboration with dancer Julie Guibert, B.C., Janvier 1545, Fontainebleau, at On the Boards; and Senegalese troupe Compagnie Jant-Bi (aka dapper men in business suits blending traditional African dances with contemporary themes) at UW World Series.