A Musical Fence interactive art installation is back in Cambridge permanently in the common at Cambridge Crossing, inspired by works seen on the streets of Central Square in 1980.

Four finalist art proposals are in for the remaking the Tobin Montessori and Vassal Lane Upper Schools in West Cambridge. The winner of the $650,000 commission won’t be announced until November, but the first step to a decision is homework: learning about each project.

After the all-virtual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo demanded by 2020’s raging pandemic, the free event returns Saturday and Sunday in a new form defined by a more confusing Covid moment: as a Mini-MICE with room to breathe inside the open-air Starlight Square entertainment complex.

After closing mid-March of 2020 to stop the spread of the coronavirus, the Harvard Art Museums are expected to reopen to the public Sept. 4.

The kinds of plants, animals and fungi young artists can use as subjects for the Cambridge City Nature Arts Challenge has more than tripled in the year since the competition’s launch, from the Canada geese of East Cambridge and Harvard Square to the winter fireflies spotted at Fresh Pond.

A design honoring Black Harvard students, peppered with Harvard Square Easter eggs and weaving in nods to Cambridge community festivals and Black Lives Matter protests covers a construction project in a city commission from artist Patricia Thaxton.

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.