Description: Public art and sculpture installations are celebrated at Alewife, Davis, Porter, and Harvard T stations. Red line train arrives at Alewife. Animal tiles at Alewife. Artist Susumu Shingu, creator of mobile at Porter Square. Mags Harries' bronzed gloves along escalator rail. Glass enclosed elevator. Wavy surface relief on stone facade. Cow trompe l'oeil painting. Joan Mondale speaks at dedication. Brass quintet plays.
Description: 1985 arts compilation. Central Square through Jeff Dunn photographs. Anthony DiBonaventura plays Domenico Scarlatti. Poet Felicia Lamport. BPL director Arthur Curley. Composer Stephen Albert.
Description: Saginaw Avenue on Cambridge Somerville line near Elm Street behind Porter Square shopping center. Mural on back of Star Market on Davenport Street. Mural on brick side of Inman Square fire station. Entrance to The Proposition improvisation theater with silhouettes mural. Mural of horse-drawn wagon. Rowboat mural in Central Square. Colorful totem-like painted bricks. Cartoonish musicians painted on brick wall. Large stylized mural of Victorian house near Orson Welles Cinema. Interview with woman at Cambridge Arts Council about placement of public murals and environmental art installations; how they match artists' proposals with community interests.
Description: Suite of paintings done by Mark Rothko for Harvard faded severely in sun because of fugitive pigments. The murals are on display for final time at Sackler Museum.