The New York Times Thursday June 4, 2026
Valie Export, an avant-garde performance artist, filmmaker and photographer who confronted the misogyny of mass media and society at large, died on May 15 in Vienna, notes The New York Times. She was 85. The Austrian artist practiced what she called expanded cinema, producing numerous photographs and films; she was shortlisted for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024 for her retrospective exhibition VALIE EXPORT, noted her longtime gallerist, Thaddaeus Ropac, Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Thursday June 4, 2026
On March 2, two days into the United States and Israel's air campaign against Iran, CNN published imagery showing a still-smoking operations center at Port Shuaiba in Kuwait, where six American
service members had just been killed by an Iranian drone. In the following days, multiple outlets showed that a strike on an elementary school that killed 175 people had likely been carried out … Read the full Story >>
Associated Press Wednesday June 3, 2026
Former Associated Press photographer Dang Van Phuoc, who was wounded multiple times during the Vietnam War and returned to capture the action even after losing an eye in an explosion, died in Southern California on May 23. He was 91, reports the AP. Born in a Vietnamese village near Quang Ngai, south of Da Nang, Phuoc was hired in 1965 by AP’s former photo chief, Horst Faas, to replace another local hire who had been killed on assignment. Faas called Phuoc AP's "secret weapon." Read the full Story >>
BBC Wednesday June 3, 2026
A newly discovered photograph of Oscar Wilde before he found literary fame has sold at auction for more than £5,000, notes the BBC. The 1876 group photo shows Wilde at age 21 or 22, when he was a student at Oxford University’s Magdalen College, adds The Irish Post. Recently discovered in a Victorian-era album, the photo is part of a collection that went under the hammer at Cirencester-based auction house Dominic Winter Auctioneers. The auction also included a rare signed image of Winston Churchill on horseback. Read the full Story >>
