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Art

A selection of 65 paintings by a wide variety of British artists, including Francis Bacon and J.M.W. Turner, will be featured in “Great British Paintings From American Collections: Holbein to Hockney,” opening today at the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino. Above: “The Beggar’s Opera” (1729) by William Hogarth.

Theater

Eric Bogosian--award-winning writer, actor and master of the comic, razor-edged rant--returns with his parade of raging madmen in “The Worst of Eric Bogosian,” opening Wednesday at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Portraying junkies, businessmen, hipsters, panhandlers and type-A personalities, Bogosian will perform excerpts from his off-Broadway solo work in “Drinking in America,” “Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll,” and “Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead,” and from his newest show, “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee.”

Music

Handel’s “Ariodante” (1735) comes to San Diego Opera for the first time, opening Saturday and running through Feb. 17. Irish conductor Kenneth Montgomery returns to the podium; stage director is John Copley. Three sopranos head the cast: Vivica Genaux, Rosemary Joshua and Christine Brandes.

Pop Music

Willie Nelson, below left, has gone multimedia, with a new album, “The Great Divide,” featuring such wet-behind-the-ears collaborators as Rob Thomas and Kid Rock, and a book, “The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes.” And he’s on the road again, headlining Anaheim’s Grove on Friday and sharing the bill with Ray Charles, below right, on Saturday at the Universal Amphitheatre.

Jazz

Saxophonist Ronnie Laws brings an acoustic trio--pianist Vernall Brown Jr., bassist Larry Antonino and drummer William Bryant--to Culver City’s Jazz Bakery on Tuesday for a six-night stand. That same night, multi-instrumentalist and current Grammy nominee Marcus Miller begins a run at the Catalina Bar & Grill in Hollywood.

Movies

Arnold Schwarzenegger, above, returns as a vengeful firefighter who tracks the terrorist responsible for

the death of his wife and child in “Collateral Damage.” The film teams Arnold with action director Andrew Davis (“The Fugitive”), and co-stars Elias Koteas, Francesa

Neri, Cliff Curtis, John Leguizamo

and John Turturro. Opens

Friday.

Video

Terry Zwigoff (“Crumb”) directed the teen comedy-drama “Ghost World,” adapted by Daniel Clowes from his comic of the same name. Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson and Steve Buscemi, who has received several critics’ awards, star in this offbeat tale of two too-hip high school friends whose relationship changes after they graduate. Brad Renfro, Illeana Douglas and Bob Balaban also star in the art-house hit that arrives Tuesday on VHS and DVD.