EditorialThe artist Mira Lehr stands inside her 2018 installation “Below the Surface,” in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 1, 2020. (Alfonso Duran/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Degradation of Haman before Ahasuerus and Esther. School of Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1665-1727. Dimensions: 196 x 168 mm. Pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash on cream laid paper with a watermark. Origin: Holland.
EditorialGirolamo Savonarola (1452-1498). Italian Dominican friar and preacher. Organiser of the Bonfire of the Vanities. Excommunicated and executed by the Tribunal of the Holy Inquisition. Degradation of Savonarola. Chromolithography. "Historia Universal" (Un...
EditorialStuart Skelton, left, and?Waltraud Meier in Alban Berg’s “Wozzeck” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on April 4, 2011. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialMilitary degradation in the Place Vendome - criminals cashiered from the army. Soldiers are stripped of their regimentals and forced to appear like convicts in brown hooded mantles. Handcoloured aquatint engraving after an illustration credited to Vict...
EditorialAttorney General Merrick Garland speaks about gun regulations from the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington on Thursday, April 8, 2021, as President Joe Biden listens. (Amr Alfiky/The New York Times)
Editorial“Wine Girl: The Obstacles, Humiliations and Triumphs of America’s Youngest Sommelier” by Victoria James, in New York, Nov. 24, 2020. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)