EditorialConcrete daisies on the structure built by Josep Almar i Pujol in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, near the border of France, June 8, 2023. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
EditorialConcrete daisies on the structure built by Josep Almar i Pujol in Sant Feliu de Guíxols, Spain, near the border of France, June 8, 2023. (Samuel Aranda/The New York Times)
EditorialA piece by the 92-year-old self-taught Belgian painter Inès van den Kieboom on display at Tim Van Laere Gallery, one of 39 galleries that took part in Antwerp Art Weekend, in the Niuew Zuid district of Antwerp, Belgium, May 19, 2023. (Jussi Puikkonen/The New York Times)
EditorialA piece by the 92-year-old self-taught Belgian painter Inès van den Kieboom on display at Tim Van Laere Gallery, one of 39 galleries that took part in Antwerp Art Weekend, in the Niuew Zuid district of Antwerp, Belgium, May 19, 2023. (Jussi Puikkonen/The New York Times)
EditorialA piece by the 92-year-old self-taught Belgian painter Inès van den Kieboom on display at Tim Van Laere Gallery, one of 39 galleries that took part in Antwerp Art Weekend, in the Niuew Zuid district of Antwerp, Belgium, May 19, 2023. (Jussi Puikkonen/The New York Times)
EditorialThe fashion designer Christian Joy in her studio at her home in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, Oct. 25, 2022. (Yael Malka/The New York Times)
EditorialTravis Petersen, a self-taught, Canadian-born cook, who has been staging weed dinners since 2018, in Los Angeles, Nov. 8, 2022. (Tracy Nguyen/The New York Times)
EditorialDick Savitt, a self-taught tennis player who stunned the world by winning both the Australian Open and Wimbledon in 1951, at his apartment in Manhattan, June 25, 2022. (Carly Zavala/The New York Times)
EditorialTeresa Reichlen, a New York City Ballet star who has been with the company for 22 years, at Lincoln Center in New York, Feb. 11, 2022. (Jingyu Lin/The New York Times)
EditorialCarol Ruckdeschel, a self-taught biologist and longtime resident of Cumberland Island, at her homestead on the barrier island in south Georgia, June 6, 2021. (Stephen B. Morton/The New York Times)
EditorialWinnie Yee-Lakhani, a pitmaster, who is self-taught, with help from YouTube, at Smoke Queen in Los Angeles on July 10, 2021. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)
EditorialThe art collector Bill Arnett with Mary Ann Pettway, one of many quilters from the area whose work had caught his eye, in Gee's Bend, Ala., July 12, 2007. (Jessica McGowan/The New York Times)