EditorialLab technician Angelica Garces at the Sequencing and Genomic Technologies Shared Resource at Duke University in Durham, N.C., works with positive coronavirus samples on Feb. 3, 2021. (Pete Kiehart/The New York Times)
EditorialSample book, Machine-printed paper, Approximately thirty different patterns all available as matched sets of sidewall, border, and ceiling paper. Each pattern is shown in multiple colorways. Predominant colors in this catalogue are red and green, with ...
EditorialShawl, Medium: silk and wool Technique: twill weave with supplementary weft patterning, Paisley design on red cloth. Six large cone motifs on both ends of shawl. Plain red silk has been stitched to the paisley borders. A brocaded band is stitched all a...
EditorialTextile, Medium: silk Technique: plain compound twill, Design of alternating stylized chrysanthemums and other flowers. The predominant color is tan with areas of dark blue, light blue, yellow, green and off-white., Japan, 19th century, woven textiles,...
EditorialMatteo di Andrea de'Pasti, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417-1468), 1450, bronze, 1 9/16 in. (4 cm.), In 1447, Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta, Lord of Rimini, began rebuilding the church of San Francesco into the newly named Tempio Malatestiano, which...
EditorialNikki Haley, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, leaves the stage after addressing the Republican National Convention from the Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Washington, on Monday, Aug. 24, 2020. (Pete Marovich/The New York Times)
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora (storage jar), Archaic, ca. 570?560 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-figure, H. 12 1/8 in. (30.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, warrior between two roosters, Reverse, two rams charging. Vases of the Tyrrhenian Group, such as this one...
EditorialLampyris, Print, Lampyris is a genus of beetles in the firefly family (Lampyridae). In most of western Eurasia, they are the predominant fireflies. They produce a continuous glow; the larvae and larviform females are among those organisms commonly call...
EditorialUchikake, Meiji period (1868?1912), c. 1880, Japan, Silk, predominant-warp, weft-ribbed plain weave, resist dyed and painted with dye and India ink, embroidered with silk, gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper strips and gold-leaf-over-lacquered-paper-strip-w...
EditorialAnopheles, Print, Anopheles is a genus of mosquito first described and named by J. W. Meigen in 1818. About 460 species are recognised; while over 100 can transmit human malaria, only 30?40 commonly transmit parasites of the genus Plasmodium, which cau...
EditorialAigues-Mortes, a typical "bastide", or fortress-town, was built by Philippe le Hardi, son of French King Saint Louis. The French kings wished to make Aigues Mortes the predominant harbour of the Mediterranean, but underestimated the silting up of the a...
EditorialKneeling bull holding a spouted vessel, Proto-Elamite, ca. 3100?2900 B.C., Southwestern Iran, Proto-Elamite, Silver, 6 7/16 x 2 1/2 x 4 1/4in. (16.3 x 6.3 x 10.8cm), Metalwork-Sculpture, Soon after the political transformations of the Uruk period in so...