EditorialSandbags cover a monument as part of an art installation that replicates measures taken to protect valuable statues in Ukraine, in Liverpool, England on May 10, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialSandbags cover a monument as part of an art installation that replicates measures taken to protect valuable statues in Ukraine, in Liverpool, England on May 10, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialSandbags cover a monument as part of an art installation that replicates measures taken to protect valuable statues in Ukraine, in Liverpool, England on May 10, 2023. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...
EditorialJessica Lauser, a three-time United States blind chess champion, moves a chess piece in her Kansas City, Mo., apartment on Dec. 18, 2020. (Barrett Emke/The New York Times)
EditorialMantle, 2nd?1st century B.C., Peru, Ocucaje, Camelid hair, H. 54 1/4 x W. 74 3/8 in. (188.9 x 137.8cm), Textiles-Woven, Images of twelve 'oculate beings' are worked into this mantle by a technique called sprang, which replicates the pattern in mirror i...
EditorialSinger and Sarinda Player, ca. 1800, India (Rajasthan, Jaipur), Ink on paper, 26 x 18 1/4 in. (66 x 46.4 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Sahib Ram (active reign of Maharaja Sawai Pratap Singh, 1778?1803), This large drawing of two musicians is likely a p...
EditorialEight Kinds of Jin and Tang Writings in Small Standard Script, ?? ?? ???? ???, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), 17th century (?), China, Set of rubbings mounted in an album of 45 leaves; ink on paper, Each leaf maximum size: 9 7/8 x 3 13/16 in. (25.1 x 9.7 cm...
EditorialChinese Portrait Painter, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Two-panel folding screen; ink, color, and gold on paper, 40 x 49 1/4 in. (101.6 x 125.1 cm), Screens, Miwa Zaiei (died 1789), A Chinese painter dressed in the style of the Tang dyna...