Editing Brian O'Doherty (section)

==Early life and education==
O'Doherty was born at [[Ballaghaderreen]] in [[County Roscommon]] in 1928, and grew up in [[Dublin]].<ref name=ciaran>Ciarán Benson (2011). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110603124735/http://www.drb.ie/more_details/11-03-17/No_Sad_Imperialist_of_the_Aesthetic_Self.aspx No sad imperialist of the aesthetic self]. ''The Dublin Review of Books'' '''17''' (Spring 2011). Archived 3 June 2014.</ref> He studied medicine at [[University College Dublin]], and did post-graduate work at [[Cambridge University]] and at the [[Harvard School of Public Health]].<ref name=liu>[s.n.] (1 June 1997). [http://www.liunet.edu/About/News/Univ-Ctr-PR/Pre-2008/June/UC_PR_004 Brian O'Doherty: University Professor of Fine Arts and Media Southampton College of Long Island University]. Long Island University. Accessed January 2014.</ref>

In 1957, O'Doherty spent a year working in a cancer hospital before devoting himself full-time to the visual arts. Speaking of his experience after Harvard:

{{blockquote|I first spent a year at Harvard when I came in 1957, doing all kinds of research. I got an MSc there, but I didn’t learn much. I switched from all things medical. I auditioned for a job as a television presenter at the Museum of Fine Arts from the Boston public television station, WGBH—TV. I would do a half-hour each week from the galleries on the museum collections, also interviews with artists – [[Marc Chagall]], [[Jacques Lipchitz]], [[Josef Albers]], [[Walter Gropius]], among others.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Phong|last=Bui|title= In Conversation: Brian O'Doherty with Phong Bui|magazine= [[Brooklyn Rail]]|date= June 2007|url=http://brooklynrail.org/2007/06/art/doughtery}}</ref>}}