EditorialSimone Leigh with her new glazed stoneware work, "Jug," inside the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale, April 6, 2022. (Sarah van Rij/The New York Times)
EditorialA jug made by David Drake circa 1858 on exhibit at “Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina,” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Sept. 19, 2022. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialGarry Harvey sits by the Claret Jug, the British Open trophy for which he once competed and now engraves, at the course museum, at St Andrews, Scotland , July 13, 2022. (Robert Ormerod/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors at the United States Pavilion, where Simone Leigh’s stoneware work “Jug” is embedded with enlarged cowrie shells, at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, April 20, 2022. (Gus Powell/The New York Times)
EditorialSimone Leigh with her new glazed stoneware work, "Jug," inside the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale, April 6, 2022. (Sarah van Rij/The New York Times)
EditorialSimone Leigh with her new glazed stoneware work, "Jug," inside the U.S. Pavilion at the 59th International Venice Biennale, April 6, 2022. (Sarah van Rij/The New York Times)
EditorialPuppets from the new theater production “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas,” in Long Island City, N.Y., Nov. 17, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialNasab Hussein, who refurbished her father’s 300-year-old home and transformed it into a museum that houses local artifacts from the village, at the museum in Rameh, a village in the Galilee, in northern Israel, Oct. 9, 2021. (Danielle Amy/The New York Times)
EditorialNasab Hussein, who refurbished her father’s 300-year-old home and transformed it into a museum that houses local artifacts from the village, at the museum in Rameh, a village in the Galilee, in northern Israel, Oct. 9, 2021. (Danielle Amy/The New York Times)
EditorialNasab Hussein, who refurbished her father’s 300-year-old home and transformed it into a museum that houses local artifacts from the village, at the museum in Rameh, a village in the Galilee, in northern Israel, Oct. 9, 2021. (Danielle Amy/The New York Times)
EditorialA fragment of a water jug that was in his vehicle when it hit an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan is displayed in the home of U.S. Army veteran Matt Archuleta in Milford, Conn., on August 25, 2021. (Greg Kahn/The New York Times)
EditorialA fragment of a water jug that was in his vehicle when it hit an improvised explosive device in Afghanistan is displayed in the home of U.S. Army veteran Matt Archuleta in Milford, Conn., on August 25, 2021. (Greg Kahn/The New York Times)
EditorialA volunteer, Marcellis Counts, fills a water jug as part of a distribution event at a Newark church hosted by the Newark Water Coalition on May 8, 2021 in Newark, N.J. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)
EditorialAlbert Dutson, who lives near downtown San Antonio, Texas, keeps a 5 gallon jug of water in his bathroom on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021, that he uses to flush his toilet because a pipe burst underneath his home due to the winter storm, leaving him without running water. (Christopher Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialDrawings of a pomegranate flower, plant and juice jug inside a small checkpoint by the Arghandab bridge in Arghandab, Afghanistan, Nov. 18, 2020. (Jim Huylebroek/The New York Times)