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Up through March 10, “Something Terrible May Happen: The Works of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward ‘Ned’ I.R. Jennings” is an evocative, provocative sparkler of a show at the Gibbes Museum of Art. The something terrible that may happen is plucked from the text of Oscar Wilde’s banned 1893 play “Salome.” It may or may not be so terrible, depending on your own perspective.

With the addition of “Omniscience,” a permanent sculpture created by artist Fred Wilson, the public art scene is bulking up, with future projects like a memorial fountain by Stephen L. Hayes Jr. and “Coneflower Kaleidocanopy” by TuxedoKat set to grace the city in coming times.

The Footlight Players ratchet up the antics in a play whose name offers a clue to its irreverent, satirical style. That name is “POTUS: Or Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive,” which enjoyed a Broadway run in 2022. Over on Society Street, shrill was supplanted by chill, with Village Repertory Co. set for its first full season since the pandemic, in collaboration with Threshold Repertory Theatre at its Society Street venue.