Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Chairman of Sotheby's U.K. has written a lively overview of collectors in a broad range of interests. One chapter profiles Emil Buhrle, the deceased Swiss collector, whose museum was recently robbed of four works worth $163m.

If all goes according to plan in April gallerist Ralph Brill will light up a section of the Hoosic River between the Eclipse Mill and Mass MoCA in North Adams. He is involved in the development of a World War II Museum that would become the Northern Berkshires' "Fourth Museum."

Philippe de Montebello, the retiring director of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art charmed and captivated a capacity audience at the Clark Art Museum.

Philippe de Montbello joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art while still a graduate student in 1963. Except for a hiatus of four years as Director of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston he spent his entire career at the Met and has been its director since 1977. This week he announced plans to retire.

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.

When we visited the artist Stephen Hannock in his Berkshire studio several works were nearing completion including a view of the Oxbow for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and a landscape for the 25th anniversary of the Sundance Institute.

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.

The Manton Foundation gives Sir Edwin Manton's superb collection of British masters

Edsel's handsome and intelligent illustrated history of Nazi art looting and Allied restitution.is a worthy extension of Lynn Nicholas'Rape of Europa.

A gathering of scholars from the Clark Institute and the Getty Museum to discuss iconoclasm and its implications for art history.

Two intensive weekends of music by Franz Liszt and his contemporaries.

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.