Can't Miss It: Monday

40-year-old African elephant Watoto participates in a painting session. Photo credit: Ryan Hawk

TRUNK SHOW: Downtown's Art/Not Gallery hosts Seattle's first ever non-human art show, A New Breed of Art: Creations by Woodland Park Zoo's Animals. The Puget Sound chapter of the American Association of Zoo Keepers curated the exhibit, which features around twenty pieces of art painted by the zoo's elephants and orangutans. The painting sessions are part of the zoo's enrichment program to keep the animals physically and mentally stimulated, while also encouraging their inner van Goghs. The exhibit runs through March 5th.

11 a.m.-6 p.m. // Art/Not Terminal Gallery, Sub-T Room // 2045 Westlake Ave. // free

BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE: The Grand Illusion continues its run of Ice People, a documentary on living in Antarctica. If you didn't get enough of the day-to-day on the ice in Encounters at the End of the World, director Anne Aghion spent four months with researchers near the South Pole. Aghion covers the scientists' daily life, while also bearing witness to the geologists' findings about climate change, with the discovery of a green Antarctica that disappeared after a sudden shift in the temperature of the continent over 14 million years ago. Top that, Herzog.

7 p.m., 9 p.m. // Grand Illusion // 1403 NE 50th St. // $8

HE'S THE DECIDER: Jonah Lehrer (who recently, flailingly appeared on the Colbert Report) discusses his new book, How We Decide, tonight at Town Hall. Lehrer examines the neuroscience of decision-making, which he argues is neither purely rational nor emotional, but a delicious admixture of the two. If you'd like to avoid getting too emotional, we'd advise you not look at the mousy photo on his webpage.

7:30 p.m. // Town Hall // 1119 8th Ave. // $5