EditorialAmanda Towers, a founder of the Seed, a Living Beer Project, which will host a multidisciplinary event with music, pottery and beer in Atlantic City, N.J., on May 24, 2023. (Jennifer Pottheiser/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialConstantin Biscu with examples of his pottery at his home in Horezu, Romania, in the foothills of the Capatanii Mountains, a three-hour drive from Bucharest, the capital, April 30, 2023. (Marko Risovic/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialA cup at by the painter Makron and the potter Hieron that Dietrich von Bothmer restored from pottery fragments, on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialPottery is displayed for sale at Dengama in Kappa Bashi, the kitchenware district of Tokyo, on March 26, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
EditorialPottery is displayed for sale at Dengama in Kappa Bashi, the kitchenware district of Tokyo, on March 26, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
EditorialPottery is displayed for sale at Dengama in Kappa Bashi, the kitchenware district of Tokyo, on March 26, 2023. (Andrew Faulk/The New York Times)
EditorialPottery shards by a hermit cell in the Red Sea Mountains near Wadi Nagaata in Egypt, along the Red Sea Mountain Trail, Nov. 20, 2019. (Sima Diab/The New York Times)