Editorial***EMBARGOED UNTIL 9am EST on TUESDAY 21 DEC*** The Beatles seen in rare and newly-discovered photos in Ringo Starrs upcoming memoir, set for 2022 release
EditorialGustave Courbet: Woman with White Stockings (La Femme aux bas blancs), Gustave Courbet, 1864, Oil on canvas, Traditionally, European painters made the nude subject decorous by presenting it as part of an edifying mythological narrative. Here, Courbet s...
EditorialPunchinello carried off by a centaur, around 1797. Punchinello is being carried off on the back of a rearing centaur, pursued by a bare-footed woman in a head scarf, her face unseen and her arms waving wildly. The drawing mocks the classical scene in w...
EditorialA " War of posters" in Vienna, for the General elections on October 9, 1949. A huge poster warns Austrians " not to buy the cat in the bag" i. e. unseen, but to vote for the conservative People's Party. The poster is affixed to the ...
EditorialMorning Glories, ?????, Edo period (1615?1868), early 19th century, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink, color, and gold leaf on paper, Image (each screen): 70 3/16 x 12 ft. 5 1/2 in. (178.3 x 379.7 cm), Screens, Suzuki Kiitsu (Japanese, 1796...
EditorialTile with Niche Design and Inscription, early 14th century, Made in Iran, Kashan, Stonepaste; inglaze painted in blue, luster-painted on opaque white glaze, modeled decoration, H. 19 3/4 in. (50.4 cm), Ceramics-Tiles, Inscribed: 'He is God, beside whom...
EditorialAutumn Grasses in Moonlight, ???????, Meiji period (1868?1912), second half of the 19th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, lacquer, silver, and silver leaf on paper, Image (each panel): 18 in. ? 33 1/4 in. (45.7 ? 84.5 cm), Screens, Shibata...
EditorialA " War of posters" in Vienna, for the General elections on October 9, 1949. A huge poster warns Austrians " not to buy the cat in the bag" i. e. unseen, but to vote for the conservative People's Party. The poster is affixed to the ...
EditorialPunchinello carried off by a centaur, around 1797. Punchinello is being carried off on the back of a rearing centaur, pursued by a bare-footed woman in a head scarf, her face unseen and her arms waving wildly. The drawing mocks the classical scene in w...