EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...
EditorialAttendees of NecronomiCon Providence during the Eldritch Ball in the Biltmore Ballroom, at the Graduate Hotel, Rhode Island, on Aug 20, 2022. (Matt Cosby/The New York Times)
EditorialA short but carefully considered menu of food that goes with mezcal at Under the Volcano in New York on March 24, 2021. (Cole Saladino/The New York Times)
EditorialKabuki players as the Eight Sennin (Triptych), Kininaga, d. ca. 1820, Woodcut on paper, mounted, Three panels joined to form a single composition. Description on verso of mount as follows: 'Beauties impersonating the eight sennin - Immortals. Kinto bea...
EditorialLintel 25. Lady K'ab'al Xook. Lady Xook is in the hallucinatory stage of the bloodletting ritual. She conjures before her a vision of a Teotihuacan serpent. This lintel is one of a series of three panels from Structure 23 at Yaxchilan. Limestone, 725-7...
EditorialJohn Flaxman, Hector Chiding Paris, 1792-1793, pen and grey ink, brush and black ink over graphite on wove paper, 8 3/8 in. x 12 1/8 in. (21.27 cm. x 30.8 cm.), This drawing by the English Neoclassical sculptor and illustrator John Flaxman conjures a s...
EditorialMagician conjures women in or out of a basket and spectators watch, sorcerer, magician, wizard, warlock, Europe, anonymous, c. 1850 - c. 1880, cardboard, photographic paper, albumen print, h 85 mm ? w 170 mm.
EditorialLintel, from a series illustrating the accession rituals of the ruler Lord Bird. One of his wives conjures a vision of an ancestor who emerges from the mouth of a serpent coiled through a beaded blood scroll.770 CE Limestone,69.2 x 76.2 cm, Temple 21, ...