We’ve got a big week coming up, with some tough choices to make on Thursday. Of course, we hope you choose Arno Rafael Minkkinen’s first public lecture in Boston at the PRC. Don’t forget the leap year, one extra day of February for your enjoyment, and First Fridays deferred a week to March 7th.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26

Rhode Island School of Design. Visualizing Black Culture. Lecture by Dr. Deborah Willis, Chair of Photography and Imaging Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts: 7 pm. RISD Auditorium, 17 Canal Street, Providence, Rhode Island 02906. 401.454.6500. www.risd.edu

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28

Photographic Resource Center. Arno Rafael Minkkinen: unplugged, as always. 7pm, BU’s Photonics Center, Auditorium 206, 8 St. Mary’s Street, Boston, MA. 617-975-0600. www.prcboston.org $10 Members/$15 Non-Members/$5 Full-time Students/Free for Students of Institutional Members. [meetup]

Foster Gallery, Museum of Fine Arts Boston. SMFA Traveling Scholars. Artists’ talk by Bill Durgin, Mathew Clay Freeman and Elizabeth H. Wallace: 11 am. Avenue of the Arts, 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115. 617-267-9300. www.mfa.org

Harvard University Art Museums. Moyra Davey: Two or Three Things I know about Her. Lecture by Catherine Lord: 6 p.m. Carpenter Center Auditorium. 24 Quincy Street. Opening Night: 7 pm. Fogg Art Museum, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA. www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

Griffin Museum. Photographs of Immigrant Station on Ellis Island from the Social Museum of Harvard University. Gallery talk by Beth Pugliano: 7 pm. 67 Shore Road, Winchester MA 01890. 781-729-1158. www.griffinmuseum.org

We hope to see you at as many of these great events as possible!