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ART: We’ve highlighted six art galleries tonight in our Arts Agenda, which is more than this post can hold, so please click over and check it out; one is sure to impress you.

JAZZ: Hear one of the most inventive drummers around, Matt Wilson, at the Blues Alley tonight. Tickets are $20 + $12.50 minimum/surcharge, sets at 8 and 10 p.m.

MUSIC: Catch Rhett Miller & The Serial Lady Killers with Jim Ward at the Black Cat Mainstage, 8 p.m. $16.

Or hit the first night of the 2nd Annual Bootleg Festival’s with a special “Cakes and Kisses” party at the Expo Lounge, along with Five One and DJ Earth 1ne, Jason Reynolds, Lauren Schreiber and Cool Cee Brown, $5 (or buy a $40 all-access festival pass), 9 p.m.

LECTURE: At the National Academy of Sciences, scholar Melanie Mitchell will lead a, “detailed tour of the science of complexity, which seeks to explain how large-scale complex, organized, and adaptive behavior emerges from simple interactions among myriad individuals.” 6:45 p.m. $15.