Color lithographs by Ronald Searie, who does better drawings of spaced-out cats than anyone else around, are at the Coop's exhibition gallery through Saturday.

Wendy Faris, a resident tutor in South House, is exhibiting batiks and quilts in a very strong show in Hilles's second floor exhibition area.

Boston City Hall is hosting a display of photographs of the History of Irish Bostonians, from the late 19th century to the present. Through April.

I thought we were done with the bicentennial for a while, but the planetarium at the Museum of Science's new show is entitled "The Star Spangled Sky." The new exhibit in the museum itself is called "In Celebration of the Living Whale," a disappearing species well worth honoring.

Yona Friedman's "Handbook for Self-Design" (I haven't seen it yet, and am not sure just what it is, but it sounds great) is on display in the lobby of Gund Hall through Friday.

Boston City Hall has also provided exhibit space for a "Personal View of the MBTA," photographs by a man with the alliterative name of Vincent Vitale. I can think of no more picturesque subject...Through Monday.