A new arts space in The Port feels like a reinvention of the freewheeling Out of the Blue and Zeitgeist galleries of Cambridge’s past.

The four finalists for public art planned for the new Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools complex will take questions and comments, thoughts and ideas at a 6 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday virtual meeting.

Ten arts projects are coming to Cambridge’s Port neighborhood with $90,000 in funding from Cambridge Arts and the City of Cambridge’s Port Neighborhood Grants.

There’s trouble at Moose and Grizzly Bear’s Ville – the colorful public art project that is the home of the equally colorful Peter Valentine a few blocks below Central Square: Tuesday’s cold snap burst a radiator pipe, flooding the home’s first and second floors.

The Out of the Blue art gallery and performance space, a fixture around Cambridge for 21 years before being priced out in December 2017, says it has a new home in Somerville.

North Cambridge artist Freedom Baird has fought off Covid-19 for months, somehow persisting with her art and recounting in detail her medical issues from coronavirus.

For even more reason to look forward to 2021, the exhibit “The Carpet Grew Like a Garden” begins Jan. 14 at Gallery 263 in Cambridgeport, showing works by Iranian-born Shabnam Jannesari.

“R.O.O.T. (Recognizing Our Oldest Trees)” takes on worries around tree loss explicitly as well as artistically.

In a city of villages that can feel very distinct from each other, BioMed Realty made a choice in Kendall Square that offers a sense of connection: selecting Cedric Douglas and Julia Roth, artists also known as Vise and Julz, to paint a vent shaft in its Canal District Kendall.

Public meetings this week look at the next stages of pandemic response; school reopening funds and whether neighborhood groups are inclusive; Harvard Square street traffic closings; and a Cannabis Delivery-Only Zoning Petition.