ARTnews Monday August 31, 2026
Sir Stephen Fry, Sharon Stone, Prince Harry, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Oleksandra Matviichuk are among the public figures taking on guest curator roles for “Postcode Ukraine: Diary of a Volunteer,” a fundraising exhibition of photographs by British, Kyiv-based artist Mark Neville opening on September 11 at Westwood Contemporary in Los Angeles. Neville’s work documents everyday life in Ukraine during Russia’s full-scale invasion, focusing on volunteers, families, and communities living through the war. Read the full Story >>
Le Monde Monday August 31, 2026
As the 38th edition of the Visa pour l'image photojournalism festival gets underway week in Perpignan, France, it’s longtime director, Jean Francois Leroy, is not there: Leroy, known for his outbursts and his staunch commitment to photojournalism, died of cancer on August 31 in Paris, reports Le Monde. He was 69. Over the years, Leroy transformed his festival into a popular success (with more than 220,000 visitors annually), and made it global meeting place for professionals from across the industry. But he also witnessed, with sadness and anger, the crisis in photojournalism and the impoverishment of photographers. Read the full Story >>
NASA Monday August 31, 2026
Photographers at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston have documented some of the most defining moments in human spaceflight, from astronaut training and engineering tests to mission control operations and milestone celebrations, notes the space agency. “Being able to help tell the human spaceflight story, frame by frame, has been an incredible adventure,” says NASA Photographer Robert Markowitz, whose career has spanned the space shuttle program, 25 years of continuous human presence aboard the International Space Station, and Artemis II. Read the full Story >>
ARTnews Monday August 31, 2026
The Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, took to Instagram to remember Dolly Parton following her death on Aug. 25, notes Art News: The Smithsonian shared three images that belong to the collection of the National Museum of American History, including a black and white photograph of Parton taken by Henry Horenstein in 1972; people, she told him, “don’t come out to see me looking like everybody else.” The Warhol Museum posted a portrait of Parton taken in 1985. Read the full Story >>
