Museum of Modern Art

In 1973, Carl Chiaranza earned a PhD for a dissertation on the photography of Aaron Siskind. It was the first in the field of the history of photography. He is also a distinguished photographer and here is a selection of the work.

There is an emphais on aspects on Hispanic, African American and African art and culture in the Spring semester exhibitions and programming for the Williams College Museum of Art.

During World War Two the epicenter of the international avant-garde art world passed from Paris to New York. Its leading painters were the Dutch born, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. Their tragic lives produced enduring masterpieces. This magnificent biography focuses on de Kooning, the other master of Abstract Expressionism.

On November 6 the Jennifer Hartwell Gallery in Birmingham will open a retrospective of Raeford Liles who recently relocated to his native roots after decades of living and showing his work in New York.

To get a summer art fix, Mark Favermann took a day trip to New York where he connected with a friend the poet and media artist Gerd Stern for a tour of museums including the Whitney where his works are included in a survey of Psychedelic Art and the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. They also visited the Richard Serra show at MoMA.

In the opening sequence of the Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, 1929, silent film "Un Chien Andalou" a woman has her eye slit by a razor. It is one of the most enduring images of avant-garde cinema.

An analysis of three boxes from the Peabody Essex retrospective on Joseph Cornell

After four years of research curator Deborah Rothschild brought an overview of Gerald and Sara Murphy, the heart and soul of the Lost Generation, to the Williams College Art Museum. The exhibition opened with a gala benefit last night.

Fear and Loathing over the 2012 London Olympics logo.Mark Favermann tries to make sense of the costly logo hated by almost everyone.

The bad boy British artist is selling a diamond encursted skull for $100 million in the London gallery White Cube. But compared to great artists like Piero Manzoni and Paris Hilton perhaps Hirst is just a wannabe.

Recently Arlette, a gallerist, and Gus Kayafas, head of Palm Press a fine art photography studio, jointly celebrated their 120th birdthday with 180 friends. They started collecting soon after they married at 20 and today own 13,000 works of which they have donated another thousand to major museums.

The touring Edward Hopper show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August before continuing at the National Gallery and concluding at the Art Institute of Chicago.

According to the curator and Danforth Museum director for six months during the 1940s and two years after that Hyman Bloom was the most important artist, first in the world, and then in America.

How Raymond Liddell was given an "offer he could not refuse" while in graduate school for Classical studies to become director of the Museum of Broadcasting in New York before moving on to the Brooklyn Museum. Today he is among other things a Contributing Editor for Art New England.

Five exhibitions at the Clark, the Williams College Museum of Art and the Brill Gallery show a vast range of photographic work.

Mayor Thomas Menino recently shocked Bostonians by announcing a plan to sell City Hall to developers and rebuild on the waterfront near the new Institute of Contemporary Art.

With David Zinn the video installation artist, Denise Marika, designed the set for the American Reportory Theatre production of "Orpheus" last summer. Over a beer and burger she discussed the use of her body as a constant in the work.

Linda Allen shows 'Territories', an exhibition of paintings and works on paper exploring complex organic and systematic relationships.

After the Armory Show of 1913 where his painting "Nude Descending the Staircase" was a sensation Duchamp declared that paintings is "too retinal." It has died and been reborn countless times since then most recently in reviews of Brice Marden at MoMA and Cecily Brown at the MFA.

Art dealer Stefan Stux recently discussed the personal and business issues that make him a unique "survivor."

The summer long special exhibition of the collections of the feauding brothers Clark, Sterling and Stephen, closes soon but will travel to the Metropolitan Museum of Art next summer.