Mon. Jan. 15

The Museum of Fine Arts always does something neat on Monday holidays. That is, they open the place to the public at no charge. This means you have (probably) a day off and no excuse not to expose yourself to culture. There's no football on TV. Nope, today's a day to learn, explore, grow ... all that good stuff. And since it's Monday January 15, it's Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the MFA has a performance by Project STEP (String Training and Educational Programs for Students of Color) (11 a.m. and 2 p.m.), a seminar called "I B Me: Black Pioneers of Fashion, which focuses on African-Americans in the fashion world (3 p.m.), film shorts (12:30 and 3 p.m.) that look at race, indentity and social justice and free exhibitions about the Romance of Modernism, Paintings and Scultpure from the Scott M. Black Colletion and Fashion Photography. The whiz-bang exhibit - the Paris Fashion show (see elsewhere in INK) - is open at a reduced price, $8. Open 10 a.m. to 4:35 p.m.

465 Huntington Ave., 617-267-9300 mfa.org