Critic's picks - visual arts

VISUAL ARTS

A collector's eye

All good collectors have one thing in common: an eye. The Yale University Art Gallery's "From Any Angle: Photographs From the Collection of Doris Bry" testifies to the quality of hers. Bry was a friend of Georgia O'Keeffe's and for many years her agent. The 75 images from Bry's collection that nine student curators chose for the show suggest recurrent thematic and technical concerns, including a longstanding interest in printing and format and an alertness to texture. Through Sept. 7 in New Haven. 203-432-0600, www.artgallery.yale.edu

Documentary deity

Photographer Jerome Liebling has been a tutelary deity in the Pioneer Valley since the early '70s, when he arrived to teach at Hampshire College. He helped make Hampshire a hotbed of documentary film and photography (his best-known student was Ken Burns). That two shows of his photographs are running just a few hours apart off I-91 is a happy accident: "Jerome Liebling: Seeing Real Things" at the Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, through today (Aug. 24), 413-585-2760, www.smith.edu/artmuseum; "Everyday Monuments: The Photographs of Jerome Liebling" at the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, through Sept. 7, 203-432-0600, www.artgallery.yale.edu.

— Mark Feeney