EditorialPresident Joe Biden addresses the nation on the budget deal that lifts the federal debt limit and averts a U.S. government default from the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Friday, June 2, 2023. (Jim Watson/Pool via The New York Times)
EditorialPerseus (left, wearing a hat, winged boots and the kibisis slung over his shoulder) averts his gaze as he kills Medusa, figured here as a female centaur. Detail from an orientalizing relief pithos. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.
EditorialShoulder plate of a harness with decorations, Right shoulder plate, iron, blank, consists of three plates with four riveted strips to protect the upper arm. The cabled edges are flanged. On the front shoulder plate is a decoration of a figure that hold...
EditorialPhithos. Unknown (Cyclades, Greece). 7th century BC. Decoration with orientalizing relief. Panel central: Perseus (left, wearing a hat, winged boots and the kibisis slung over his shoulder) averts his gaze as he kills Medusa, figured here as a female c...
EditorialShoulder plate of a harness with decorations, Right shoulder plate, iron, blank, consists of three plates with four riveted strips to protect the upper arm. The cabled edges are flanged. On the front shoulder plate is a decoration of a figure that hold...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Twenty-third night: Kamjuy, the wife of the Raja, averts her face from the fishes, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialPhithos. Unknown (Cyclades, Greece). 7th century BC. Decoration with orientalizing relief. Panel central: Perseus (left, wearing a hat, winged boots and the kibisis slung over his shoulder) averts his gaze as he kills Medusa, figured here as a female c...