EditorialThe pastor Jamal Bryant leads a prayer on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
EditorialChiromancy, the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. Egypt, engraving 1879.
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...
EditorialDiptych, 1736, Ukranian, Silver frame (oclaid), partially gilded, Overall: 3 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (7.8 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver In Combination, This seventeenth century traveling Diptych is decorated with images of saints which are quiet c...
EditorialJoe Biden accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialTerracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14.5 in. (36.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, warrior and man, Reverse, Nike (the personification of victory) and youth. Individual cha...
EditorialDiptych, 1736, Ukranian, Silver frame (oclaid), partially gilded, Overall: 3 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (7.8 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver In Combination, This seventeenth century traveling Diptych is decorated with images of saints which are quiet c...
EditorialTerracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14.5 in. (36.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, warrior and man, Reverse, Nike (the personification of victory) and youth. Individual cha...
EditorialChiromancy, the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. Egypt, engraving 1879.