Editorial“Large Jug” (2021-22) by Simone Leigh, decorated with enlarged cowrie shells, shown at “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Sept. 19, 2022. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors at the United States Pavilion, where Simone Leigh’s stoneware work “Jug” is embedded with enlarged cowrie shells, at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, April 20, 2022. (Gus Powell/The New York Times)