Get Out Tonight: Shag @ Roq la Rue

It's impossible not to love Roq la Rue, let's just put that out front. Unlike the stuffy Pioneer Square galleries pawning off over-priced decorative "art" on nouveau riche stock-holders who don't know better, Kirsten Anderson consistently delivers the coolest and most exciting contemporary art in town, and tonight, a gem of a show has its official debut starting at six: Shag's "Motorino."

The fact that Shag's one of the best known artists Roq la Rue has shown makes it a slightly less adventurous show, since everyone already knows what they'll get. But at the same time, what you get is an awesomely glitzy redux of mid-1960s cocktail culture that's blissfully ambivalent about whether it's kitsch or swank.

Also, for those who--like us--are totally into this sort of thing, the artist himself will purportedly be around between 6 and 7.

Shag's "Motorino" opening // Roq la Rue, 2312 2nd Ave. // 6-9 pm, cocktails 6-7 // free