In the Hall of Human Life, visitors’ unique personal measures will become part of the exhibit’s stories. Will the exhibit revolutionize how people understand their own biology? Its designers hope so, by investigating how humans change over time in our dynamic environments. The exhibit is designed to highlight breakthroughs in biology and biotechnology, and spark curiosity about innovations in life sciences.

Drawing from across the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, “Think Pink” explores the history and changing meanings of the color pink. The monochromatic exhibition is (perhaps) surprisingly diverse: It features clothing, accessories, graphic illustrations, jewelry, and paintings – and it will no doubt delight the senses of our kids with pink obsessions and fans of Pinkalicious.  Look for the MFA at night, lit up all in pink during the month of October (Breast Cancer Awareness Month).

The best time to explore Amy Sillman: One Lump or Two with your kids is during the ICA Play Dates the last Saturday of each month. The exhibit, the first museum survey of works by New York–based artist Amy Sillman, traces the development of her practice from the early use of cartoon figures and a bright color palette to her exploration of abstract expressionism. The playdates connected to the exhibit are Imagineering With Color on Saturday, October 26, 10am-4pm and A Family Concert, Saturday, November 30, from 10 am - 4 pm. During the October Play Date, families use layers of color to create original artworks in the Art Lab and sketch dancers posing in the lobby. Urbanity Dance will also perform. In November, the highlight of the Play Date is a concert featuring David Grover and his band, with special guest appearances from local children's choruses.

Together, Boston Cyberarts and Emerson College are presenting the inaugural American exhibitions of the work of sculptor Bálint Bolygó. The exhibitions focus on Bolygó's distinctive drawing-machine sculptures, which are mechanisms animated by natural, invisible universal forces highlighting the connection between space, matter, and time. Both exhibitions are free and open to the public. The Boston Cyberarts Gallery in Jamaica Plain will show machines that draw a mural, a portrait, and an animated film. At Emerson's Huret & Spector Gallery in Boston, three works that draw continuously with light will be showcased.

The MIT Museum’s new kinetic sculpture exhibition, 5000 Moving Parts, will feature large-scale works by four North American artists. Using a variety of materials, sensory experiences and philosophical underpinnings, the artists whose work appears in this exhibition have created experiences that are at once mesmerizing, hypnotic and thought provoking. This exhibit would make an excellent complement to the drawing-machine sculptures exhibit at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, and could spark some interesting family discussions and science activities.

The redesigned Art & Nature Center features special programs, activity stations, multimedia elements and annual exhibitions that highlight the vital connections between human creativity and the natural world. The center's premiere exhibition, Beyond Human: Artist–Animal Collaborations, features paintings, installations, photographs and audio and video recordings by artists who co-create or investigate art with live animals. If your kid loves dogs, elephants, or birds, you’ll definitely want to visit PEM this fall. The exhibit opening celebration looks like a blast, and while you’re in Salem, experience Halloween at its best.

If you were in Madison Square Park in New York City this summer, you may have seen Red, Yellow and Blue, an exhibit featuring hand-knotted, paint-covered nautical rope. Red, Yellow and Blue will be re-shaped and re-sculpted from its NYC installation to adapt to the contours of deCordova’s landscape. The miles of layered rope will redefine the topography of the Sculpture Park and create interactive environments that invite visitors to experience the Sculpture Park’s landscape in a new way.

Photo: Amy Sillman, Unearth, 2003, on exhibit at the ICA. Photo by John Berens.