EditorialLionel Mapleson’s diaries, which studiously chronicled both his daily life and the Metropolitan Opera’s calendar, at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in New York on Dec. 19, 2022. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
EditorialAdnan Syed walks out of the Baltimore City Circuit Court after a judge overturned his conviction, in Baltimore, Md., on Sept 19, 2022. (Ting Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialAdnan Syed, the subject of the podcast “Serial,” leaves Baltimore City Circuit Court on Sept. 19, 2022, after a judge overturned his murder conviction. (Ting Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialAdnan Syed walks out of the Baltimore City Circuit Court after a judge overturned his conviction, in Baltimore, Md., on Sept 19, 2022. (Ting Shen/The New York Times)
EditorialCannonballs at the Citadelle Laferrière, once stacked to defend against a feared French invasion, near Milo, Haiti on July 25, 2021. (Federico Rios/The New York Times)
EditorialBill Gross, one of the financial world’s best-known investors and commentators, at Janus Capital Group, in Newport Beach, Calif., April 6, 2016. (Emily Berl/The New York Times)
EditorialRuth Willig, a 98-year-old retired microbiologist and mother of four, at her home in Brooklyn on Dec. 10, 2015. (Nicole Bengiveno/The New York Times)
EditorialChris Steinbacher chronicled his rebuild work of this Lamborghini Huracan, shown in Portland, Ore., March 31, 2021, that had been totaled, on his YouTube channel. (Will Matsuda/The New York Times)
EditorialThomas Rowlandson, The Picnic Party, ca. 1800-1827, watercolor on paper, 11 5/8 in. x 18 in. (29.6 cm. x 45.7 cm.), In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen (1775--1817) describes preparations for a picnic party in the country. 'The grounds were declare...
EditorialEvening at the Lock, Napanoch, New York, 1893, oil on canvas, 22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm), Paintings, Theodore Robinson (1852?1896), In 1893, the year after he returned from his last visit to Giverny, Robinson taught plein-air painting at Napanoch, Ne...
EditorialRelief Block with Coat of Arms of Cholula, early 16th century, Mexico, Mexican, Stone, traces of stucco, Overall: 18 x 26 in. (45.72 x 66.04 cm), Stone-Sculpture, The Aztecs, like other Mesoamerican peoples before them, devised a form of writing to rec...
EditorialVasilis Dimtriou, 79, in his studio in Athens, Greece in 2014. Dimitriou, an artist who sought to keep the venerable art of the painted Hollywood billboard from fading away, creating more than 8,000 works for Greek theaters that virtually chronicled the history of movies since World War II, died on Sept. 6, 2020, in Athens. He was 84 and one of the last surviving movie billboard painters in Europe. The cause was Parkinson’s disease, said Konstantinos Giannopoulos, a family spokesman and a third-generation owner of the Athinaion Cinemas. (Eirini Vourlouumis/The New York Times)
EditorialA portrait of Cornelis Komen, a salesman for an English asbestos company, in Almere, Netherlands, March 5, 2020. (Ilvy Njiokiktjien/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Third-Class Carriage, ca. 1862?64, Oil on canvas, 25 3/4 x 35 1/2 in. (65.4 x 90.2 cm), Paintings, Honor? Daumier (French, Marseilles 1808?1879 Valmondois), As a graphic artist and painter, Daumier chronicled the impact of industrialization on mode...
EditorialEvening at the Lock, Napanoch, New York, 1893, oil on canvas, 22 x 32 in. (55.9 x 81.3 cm), Paintings, Theodore Robinson (1852?1896), In 1893, the year after he returned from his last visit to Giverny, Robinson taught plein-air painting at Napanoch, Ne...
EditorialRelief Block with Coat of Arms of Cholula, early 16th century, Mexico, Mexican, Stone, traces of stucco, Overall: 18 x 26 in. (45.72 x 66.04 cm), Stone-Sculpture, The Aztecs, like other Mesoamerican peoples before them, devised a form of writing to rec...