EditorialNicolas Lancret: Open Cage - Girl in Landscape, Nicolas Lancret, First half of 18th century, Oil on canvas, A young woman, possibly a sherpherdess, searches the sky for a bird released from a small birdcage. Painted by the French artist Nicolas Lancret...
EditorialHéctor Zamora’s sculpture “Lattice Detour,” a curved wall of terra cotta bricks, on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 20, 2020. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialNicolas Lancret: Open Cage - Girl in Landscape, Nicolas Lancret, First half of 18th century, Oil on canvas, A young woman, possibly a sherpherdess, searches the sky for a bird released from a small birdcage. Painted by the French artist Nicolas Lancret...
EditorialDjed pillar amulet, Third Intermediate Period?Ptolemaic Period, 1086?30 B.C., From Egypt, Faience, H. 3.2 ? W. 1 ? D. 0.6 cm (1 1/4 ? 3/8 ? 1/4 in.), Amulets were thought to magically transfer their power to the wearer. Such power often derived from th...