EditorialA nude of the writer Victor Hugo by Auguste Rodin, at the Besan?on Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besan?on, France on Dec. 7, 2022. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)
EditorialKehinde Wiley’s “Rumors of War” statue at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., Dec. 19, 2019. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialThe painting series known as “The Five Senses” as displayed at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Nov. 21, 2022. (Simon Simard/The New York Times)
EditorialAt the Odesa Fine Arts Museum, from which more than 12,000 works were removed for safekeeping, a sculpture, ?Venus,? by Maria Kulikovska, made of ballistic soap and too fragile to easily remove, in Odesa, Ukraine, June 25, 2022. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)
EditorialPhilip Guston’s “Painting, Smoking, Eating” (1973), featuring shoes take from photographs in concentration camps, at the artist’s exhibition, “Philip Guston Now” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, April 25, 2022. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)
EditorialJ.M.W. Turner’s “Rockets and Blue Lights (Close at Hand) to Warn Steam Boats of Shoal Water” (1840), hangs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on April 3, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)