EditorialArt handlers install works by Anatol Petrytskyi from left: two costume designs for the ballet “Eccentric Dances” (1922) and one for the opera “Turandot” (1928), at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, Nov. 22, 2022. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times)
EditorialBirgit Thyssen-Bornemisza led a life of eccentric anonymity and shabby gentility. Then her money got cut off. Then she had a stroke. (Rutu Modan/The New York Times)
EditorialUkraine?s Kalush Orchestra perform in a fan zone during the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, on Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Tea Pagoda at The Last Resort, David Lee Hoffman’s home for decades in Marin County, California, on March 4, 2022. (Matthew Millman/The New York Times)
EditorialBelgium?s Jeremie Makiese performs during the semifinals of the Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, on Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
EditorialIlia Susareishvili, the bird keeper for the Shekvetili Dendrological Park, feeds a pelican at the park in Shekvetili, Georgia, in December 2021. (Daro Sulakauri/The New York Times)
EditorialIlia Susareishvili, the bird keeper for the Shekvetili Dendrological Park, feeds a pelican at the park in Shekvetili, Georgia, in December 2021. (Daro Sulakauri/The New York Times)
EditorialMark Lantis had to be airlifted by helicopter while searching for treasure at Yellowstone National Park, buried by the eccentric art collector Forrest Fenn. Three courts have said he has to pay a $2,880 fine to cover the cost of the rescue. (Josh Haner/The New York Times)
EditorialMichelle Joni Lapidos rides atop "Glinda the Good Bus,? a glitzy, eccentric hop-on hop-off party she created that cruises around Brooklyn?s Bushwick neighborhood, in New York, June 11, 2021. (Jose A. Alvarado Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialOpposition supporters take to the streets in Minsk, Belarus, on Aug. 30, 2020, after President Aleksandr Lukashenko made a blatantly fraudulent claim of re-election. (Sergey Ponomarev/The New York Times)