Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Admission is free and open to the public. Note: attendees must obtain free tickets from a kiosk at the MFA to gain admittance.

Daniel Dove's recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove's pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma. In this rebuilding, Dove's objects reveal a longing for completeness that can never be restored, much the way that his highly composed canvases offer distilled, ordered fictions based on chaotic and often dangerous real-world events.

February 10–March 3
Anderson Auditorium + Grossman Gallery

The largest annual exhibition of student work, celebrating artists who are on the threshold of their creative futures. Features works by 2010–11 award recipients alongside pieces selected by an independent jury from approximately 200 entries.

Anderson Auditorium, 6 pm

Student composers from Berklee College of Music (Julie Hill, Marco Scorsolini, Karien de Waal), Boston Conservatory (Joseph Colombo, William Mandeville) and New England Conservatory (Katherine Balch, Andrew Watts, Nell Cohen) have teamed up to produce Boston's first Boston Composers Collective Concert. Set against the backdrop of SMFA's "Student Annual Exhibition," the concert features nine world premieres of new classical music in a variety of instrumentation including pieces for string quartet, woodwind duo and voice.

The Boston Composers Collective is a society of young composers, whose aim is to expose the public to new music in innovative ways, presenting music in conjunction with other artistic media, fostering collaboration and performance opportunities between student composers and other young artists in the Boston area.

February 19–August 21, 2011
Courtyard Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Co-curated by students Chelsea Coon and Stephen St. Francis Decky this exhibition presents work by five Museum School artists whose highly distinct visions suggest the unlimited potential for new life forms and tap into our long history of invented beings. Sofya Belinskaya, Amanda Bonaiuto, Chelsea Coon, Stephen St. Francis Decky and Cara Mayo.

Artist Talk: March 9, 6–7 pm.

February 23–March 3, 2011
Mission Hill Building, 130 St. Alphonsus St., Boston