Arts: Best Bets

Everything he sees is new and strange, according to the title of the late Walter Inglis Anderson’s retrospective exhibit at LSU Museum of Art. A New Orleans native, Anderson traveled the world as an artist but spent most of his later years on the barrier islands of coastal Mississippi, drawing, painting and sculpting images of the local wildlife and plant life. His shimmering watercolors make up a large part of this collection, which is on view Aug. 2 to Oct. 20 at the museum. lsumoa.org

AUG. 4: The free First Sunday event includes free admission to the LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, the USS Kidd and the Louisiana State Museum.
UNTIL AUG. 4: “Raining in My Heart,” the Baton Rouge Blues Project’s exhibition of photographs, sculpture and more inspired by the local blues scene, finishes its run at the LSU School of Art’s Glassell Gallery in the Shaw Center. design.lsu.edu/glassell
AUG. 16-25: With Sesame Street-style puppets that are more adult-appropriate, Avenue Q comes to Theatre Baton Rouge. theatrebr.org
AUG. 30: Baton Rouge Gallery’s Movies & Music on the Lawn series continues with the classic silent film Nosferatu and a surely trippy and original score from England in 1819. batonrougegallery.org