Bjf6rn Perssons The Earth We Share Traces Endangered Lives from Kilimanjaro to Antarctica
Bj f6rn Persson 19s forthcoming Rizzoli book, The Earth We Share: Extraordinary Photography of Our Vanishing Species, spans the Tanzanian grasslands around Mount Kilimanjaro to Antarctica and includes a preface by the late Dr. Jane Goodall. Slated for release on September 8, it frames endangered wildlifefrom running giraffes to a stoic American bison and family scenes of lions and cheetahsas a hopeful call for conservation amid poaching, habitat loss, and the climate crisis.
Back-to-Back Seascapes: Leslie Wayne Maps Rising Waters at Governors Island
Leslie Waynes The Unintended Blues presents large-scale paintings of melting icebergs in the Arctic Circle, Manhattan, harbor construction, and vulnerable U.S. coastlines, installed back-to-back on metal posts to invite viewing in the round. Part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Counsels 2026 River to River Festival, the exhibition is on view through September 27 at the Arts Center at Governors Island.
Spinning Light: Luca Battaglia’s European Carousels and the Memory of Public Space
In his ongoing series Ticket non remboursable, Luca Battaglia photographs carousels across Europe with 20–30-second long exposures, dissolving their ornate structures into bands of light that evoke memory and public space. Locations noted with the images include Toulouse, Grenoble, Paris, Nice, Marseille, Dijon, Deauville, Honfleur, and Tikkimäki.
Wonder, Memory, and Care Intertwine at Joy Machines The Peace of Wild Things
Joy Machine stages The Peace of Wild Things, a duo exhibition of Emmy Star Brown and Danym Kwon, on view August 28 to October 17, 2026. The show links Browns abstraction with Kwons surreal domestic scenes, including Kwons 2026 works such as Our Favorite Path and What We Hold Dear.
What Mastery Costs Now: Training, Automation, and the Pull of the Physical
Reports spotlight a deference-heavy model in classical music teaching, entry-level writing work lost to automation, a potential Boston Symphony strike, a renewed appetite for CD players, country’s edge on the Billboard charts, and the LAPD probing a Nicolas Cage film that went missing at Netflix.
‘Neo Hokusai’ Unfurls in Brussels’ Grand-Place with 750,000 Dahlias
From August 13 to 16, Brussels’ Grand-Place hosted the 24th Flower Carpet, unveiling Hiro Sugiyama’s “Neo Hokusai,” a 14,000-square-foot design of more than 750,000 dahlias marking 160 years of friendship between the nation and Japan. The project reimagined The Great Wave Off Kanagawa and partnered with Bloemencorso Loenhout, with the parade kicking off on September 12.
Authorship in Flux, Audiences in Seats: A Week of AI Signals and Stage Receipts
Pew found that more than a third of web pages published since ChatGPT’s launch show signs of machine authorship, as traffic to the ten largest US news sites fell by a third in two years. In the same week Google shipped a detector for AI fakes and Harvard closed its writing center, a filmed Hadestown grossed $20.7 million after extending to four weeks, and Ragtime set a Lincoln Center Theater box office record.
Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 Shortlists Four Photographers
Drawn from nearly 4,000 entries by 1,338 photographers worldwide, four images have been shortlisted for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026. The winner, to be announced on November 3, will receive £15,000 and a commission for London’s National Portrait Gallery, which hosts an exhibition from November 5 to January 17.
Estefania Ajcip Maps Distance and Devotion in Folded Memories
In Folded Memories at Charlie James Gallery in Los Angeles, Estefania Ajcip builds sculptural paintings from birch plywood, paper mache, small LED lights, and acrylic to trace the fractures and longing of a family split between Guatemala and L.A. The exhibition is on view through August 22.
When Feeds Falter and Stages Surge: Notes from a Shifting Culture Economy
Traffic to the ten biggest US news sites is down by a third in two years, while more than a third of post-ChatGPT pages show signs of machine authorship. As hoaxes spread online, Hadestown breaks Hamilton’s box office records, ICA San Diego cuts nearly half its staff, a study tallies 4,500 Los Angeles jobs lost to the Paramount-Warner merger, and America’s first jellyfish museum opens in Pompano Beach.