Art: Best Bets

Peter Shire’s sculptures look like a Joan Miró or Fernand Léger painting in 3-D form, and you can see a retrospective of his work in three different ways this month. Shire is currently the Nadine Carter Russell Endowed Chair for 2013 at the LSU College of Art+Design, and his works—including 40 years of functional furniture, sculpture and drawings—are on view downtown at the LSU Museum of Art (Practically Absurd, Jan. 31-April 14) and the Glassell Gallery (Jan. 31-March 24), as well as the LSU Union Gallery (Feb. 1-24). lsumoa.com

FEB. 1-3: Baton Rouge Little Theater ends its run of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at the beginning of this month. Check it out while you can. brlt.org

STARTING FEB. 6: Baton Rouge Gallery’s February show includes the watercolor paintings of Judi Betts, mosaics of Mary Ann Caffery and abstract paintings of Steve Schmidt. batonrougegallery.org

ENDING FEB. 10: The Once Upon a Time exhibit, which features works inspired by classic fairytales, ends at the LSU Museum of Art this month.

FEB. 23: As part of a retrospective of Akira Kurosawa films, the Manship Theatre offers a screening of his masterful Japanese crime drama Rashomon at 7 p.m. manshiptheatre.org