We noted this week that a GoFundMe page has been set up to help pay photographer Nick Ut's legal fees as he plans a defamation lawsuit against the makers of a documentary that asserts he did not take the famous "Napalm Girl" photograph during the Vietnam War. Screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the documentary claims that Thanh Nghe, a driver for NBC, took the photo instead. Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Kennerly, a friend of Ut, organized the fundraiser to support Ut "in his fight against the producer of a film that defamed" him. Other photographers have rallied around Ut in the wake of the controversial documentary's release.

The exhibition, This Beautiful Light, is presented by White Cube in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Etel Adnan (1925–2021), a leading artistic and literary voice of Arab-American culture. This poet, novelist, journalist, and artist grew up speaking Arabic and Greek at home, and was educated in French and English. She began to paint in the late 1950s, while working as a professor of philosophy in Northern California. It was a period when, in protest of France’...