Like us, our canine friends are able to form abstract concepts. Friederike Range and colleagues from the University of Vienna in Austria have shown for the first time that dogs can classify complex color photographs and place them into categories in the same way that humans do.

Barbara Mensch has been a resident of the seaport district since 1979 and documented the area’s dramatic evolution from a gritty waterfront dominated by a bustling fish market to a preserved historic neighborhood.

The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History (NMAH), the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI), and the Getty Foundation have teamed up to examine a 156 year-old mystery that remains, to this day, one of the most controversial questions in photography – and their research has revealed some rather surprising results.

Gil Hanly’s photographic documentation of major social movements and public events since the early 1970s established her as a pre-eminent recorder of New Zealand’s recent history.

Catch a glimpse of the state's vanishing habitats and wildlife in the Florida Museum of Natural History's newest photography exhibit, on display Nov. 29 - March 30, 2008.

Through January 13, 2008, Carnegie Museum of Art presents Picturing Childhood: Pictorialist Family Photography, c. 1890–1940 on view in the museum's Works on Paper gallery. Picturing Childhood features the works of three Pittsburgh photographers, Hart Spencer (1852–1912), Charles H. Breed (1876–1950), and Walter Munhall (1901–1993).

The J. Paul Getty Museum announces a new Center for Photographs program devoted to surveying the collection through a series of exhibitions inspired by great themes in the history of art. In Focus: The Nude, at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center through February 24, 2008, offers an overview of the history of the photographic nude through a selection of prints from the dawn of the medium to the 20th century.

The National Gallery of Canada (NGC) is proud to present, exclusively in Canada, the exhibition Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, featuring over 165 works by 40 acclaimed artists from a dozen African countries. Organized by the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, the exhibition will open on Friday, 12 October, and continue until Sunday, 6 January 2008, inclusive.

River & Rowing Museum, England will present works by Henry Taunt, one of Victorian England's most prolific photographers. The exhibition will be on view through 20 January 2008.

The Dallas Museum of Art has announced it will host a retrospective of photographs taken by department store magnate Stanley Marcus (1905-2002), a man who shaped the history of Dallas, the Lone Star state and fashion in America.

The Dallas Museum of Art today announced the acquisition of Equilibres, a series of 82 photographs by Peter Fischli and David Weiss. The European artists, described by ARTNews as "indisputably the best thing in Swiss art since Alberto Giacometti," have been collaborating for almost 30 years and work across a wide range of media, including sculpture, installation, film and photography.

Commissioned musical portraits from Heber Springs: Bill Frisell's Disfarmer Project Pairs New Work by Guitar Genius Frisell with portraits by outsider photographer Disfarmer presented at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.