Monday Happenings

Still from Yuri Norstein's Hedgehog in the Fog courtesy HFA.

-- With so much going wrong with the arts in New England (well, okay, just that one really bad thing), it's nice to remember what's going right. Big Red and Shiny and The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research present the first annual Boston Art Awards. The result of an online poll, the Boston Art Awards will recognize the best exhibitions and hottest artists in Boston over the past year. The Beehive, 541 Tremont St., 6 p.m. Free.

Movies

-- You love to hear the story again and again. It's Groundhog Day, the day after Groundhog Day, and you can muse over the Bill Murray classic with science historian Peter Galison, who will discuss the philosophical implications of endless repetition. Coolidge Corner Theatre, 290 Harvard St., Brookline, 7 p.m. $9/$7.75.

-- Yuri Norstein is a Russian animator whose unusual films were made using a special glass pane process that gives his animations multiple planes and a three-dimensional appearance. Prolific during the sixties and seventies, he had dropped out of public view in recent years to work on an ambitious adaptation of Gogol's The Overcoat. His shorts from the seventies are widely considered among the best animation of the period and will get a rare screening tonight. Introduced by animation scholar Clare Kitson. Harvard Film Archive, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy St., Cambridge, 7 p.m. $8/$6.

Noodling

-- Mats Gustaffson is a skronky Swede, a free-jazz saxophonist with an ear for the psychedelic that is so well-attuned that his psych-rock fanzine became a must-read during the late nineties. Tonight, he joins with the best-known guitar noodler in Western Mass., Thurston Moore, for a freak scene in Cambridge. Middle East, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge, 8:30 p.m. $9.