EditorialSouth and Central America: Emerald Toucanet. Painting from 'Natural History of Birds of Paradise and Rollers, Toucans and Barbus' by Jacques Barraband (1767-1809), 1806
EditorialA Central Park staff member peers through binoculars at Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, in New York on Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Messerschmidt in Windsor Great Park 1940 Pastel, pencil, and watercolour on paper; 400 x 578 mm In 1940 Nash was made an Official War Artist to the Royal Air Force. He made many studies of planes and wrecked enemy aircraft, although he was...
EditorialDance of the Powhatan Native Americans of Carolina within a circle of totem poles. (Based on Captain White's drawing of the Algonquian dance in Virginia.) Handcoloured copperplate engraving by A. Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes...
EditorialPawnee medicine man's robe with painting of his prowess in battle, heads of seven enemy, herbal medicine, and his totem, the bear. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841.
EditorialNative American village on the banks of the Nootka Sound, with totem pole, farms, and fishing boats. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Sasso from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1837.
EditorialLa-doo-ke-a, Buffalo Bull 140, Missouria warrior with his medicine or totem painted on his chest, and Le-shaw-loo-la-le-hoo, Big Elk, chief of the Wolf Pawnee nation. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the No...
EditorialYaroslav Kaynar instructs students at his wife Krystyna Shyshkarova’s dance school, Totem Dance School, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Aug. 4, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialThe singer-songwriter Martha Wainwright, author of the memoir “Stories I Might Regret Telling You,” at home in Montreal, May 3, 2022. (Alexi Hobbs/The New York Times)