Arts: Best Bets

Marking its 50th anniversary, the Louisiana Art & Science Museum celebrates with a swanky Golden Gala Oct. 5. The next day, the museum is opening up the vault. As part of the 50 Years of Collecting exhibit, curators are dusting off selections from more than 4,000 objects housed inside the downtown museum. Expect paintings, sculptures, artifacts, antiquities from as far as Greece and Egypt and more. The exhibit runs Oct. 6-Jan. 6. lasm.org

UNTIL OCT. 7: The Glassell Gallery at the Shaw Center finishes up its exhibit of cutting-edge conceptual art, Social (Dis)order, which includes several participatory and interactive works, one of which translates hits to the gallery’s website into physical damage to a gallery wall via a drill. So, here’s the website … glassellgallery.org.

UNTIL OCT. 14: The Baton Rouge Little Theater offers performances of Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest Thursdays-Sundays. brlt.org

OCT. 20: The Life Film Festival offers a mixer, film screenings and more starting at 5 p.m. at the Manship Theatre. manshiptheatre.org

ALL MONTH: Tied to the release of an LSU Press book about her work, LSU’s Museum of Art offers a collection of works by Clementine Hunter. lsumoa.com