If a commission of $15,000 seemed like a good get for an artist in the age of coronavirus, the City of Cambridge is offering $650,000 for public art at the future Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools complex.

Gallery 263, closed since March because of the coronavirus, reopens Thursday with its Ninth Annual Members’ Exhibition.

The Harvard Art Museums will remain closed to the public until at least Dec. 31 in alignment with the university’s safety planning, according to a Wednesday press release, and continues to point people to its online offerings.

Since it’s hard to go see art in a gallery, go see it at a gallery. In the window of Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport (which aims for a Sept. 17 reopening) are two works by Marla McLeod – stunning portraits of black women done in oil on canvas that must be seen in person to be appreciated.

Here’s a bright spot in a worrisome time for artists in Cambridge: a $15,000 commission to paint a mural on a parking garage vent shaft in Canal District Kendall.

There’s no recent word on reopenings from Harvard’s various museums of science and art, but the MIT Museum put a stake in the ground Friday: It’s closed until at least 2021.

These are the final days to see the Photographic Resource Center free exhibition “What They Don’t See,” up through Friday on the center’s website.

The City Council selected two women as mayor and vice mayor on Monday, hometown U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren is on the presidential campaign trail – and soon a public art installation on Cambridge Common will tell the story of women’s suffrage.

A fantastical landscape by muralist Adam O’Day gets an unveiling Thursday in Canal District Kendall, bright camouflage for a vent shaft cover outside the Evoo restaurant.

The Cambridge Artists Cooperative gets to stay in Harvard Square at its current location for at least another two years, it was announced Wednesday.