Earlier this year, the Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna in Ravenna, Italy, unveiled a permanent gallery in honor of one of the city's native sons, the fashion photography legend Paolo Roversi. And in June, the MOP Foundation in A Corna, Spain, opened the doors to an expansive exhibition exploring what AnOther magazine called Roversi's four decades of "singular and experimental visual language." The exhibition, "Paolo Roversi: Doubts," runs through Sept. 9. It's title refers to Roversi's process: Doubt, he says, is the open door to creativity and imagination.

  While epoch-defining abstract expressionist artists such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman hosted  photographers shooting their studio actions for features in LIFE magazine during the 1950s and ‘60s, the gallerist who put them on the map, Betty Parsons, stayed home and made paintings. Most of this work never saw light during her lifetime. But yesterday, a major exhibition, Betty Parsons: An Expanded World,opened at the Hessel Museum of Art, Bard Col...