GALLERIES

The Museum of Fine Arts is having its problems these days. Since you've been gone, the director has been fired, the admission price has gone up to $2.50 and a former bank president has been hired as the museum's chief money-raiser. But its collection is still one of the world's greatest, and if you haven't seen it after all these years you should quit stalling. Right now last spring's bicentennial binge, "Paul Revere's Boston," is finishing its five-month run. It's interesting for colonial silver-and-furniture buffs, but I for one am becoming very bored with the eighteenth century. just opened is an exhibit called "Northem Prints of the Late Middle Ages"--including Holbein's Dance of Death, Durer's Melancholla and other masterpieces. Certainly worth catching. Through Dec. 7; the MFA is free on Sundays from 10-1.

And there's an exhibit at the Museum of Transportation in Lars Anderson Park, Brookline, of classic sportscars from 1928-1939. Featured is the Alfa-Romeo, along with Bugatti, BMW, Bentley and others.

At the Art/Asia gallery, next to the coop on Palmer St., there's going to be an exhibit (opening tomorrow) of works by Toshihiro Katyama, on canvas, metal, felt and paper. The show explores the "topological world"--knots and surfaces. (Topologists are the ones who study things like moebius strips, surfaces with only one side.) Through Oct. 18.

N.B. Through Oct. 15, the MFA, Museum of Science, Museum of Transportation, Aquarium, Franklin Park Zoo and a handful of other museums are offering two-for-the-price-of-one admission to students with college I.D.