EditorialMarcel Kuttab has been experiencing parosmia ? a distortion in the senses of smell and taste ? since contracting COVID-19 in March of 2020. (Katherine Taylor/The New York Times)
EditorialPhenakistiscope Disc with Distorted Man, Simon von Stampfer, Austrian, 1792 - 1864, Hand-colored lithograph on paperboard, Paper disc with a hole in the center, 10 rectangular perforations evenly spaced along perimeter for viewing. Arranged in a ring, ...
EditorialGrotesque male head, clay, hand modelled, pressed into the form, fired (ceramic), clay, Total: Height: 9.5 cm; Width: 5.4 cm; Depth: 9.8 cm, ceramic, Types of people, Hellenism, Early Imperial Period, Middle Imperial Period, The grotesque head of a man...
EditorialEgg pot of rough-walled earthenware with a slight distortion in the edge. Old bondings, egg pot, earthenware (rough wall), h: 19.2 cm, diam: 22.6 cm, vmeb, Netherlands, Utrecht, Rhenen, Rhenen, grave 308.
EditorialGlass mosaic bead, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Egyptian, Alexandrian, Glass; rod-formed, 1 1/16 ? 1 3/16 in. (2.6 ? 2.9 cm), Glass, Translucent deep blue ground, appearing black; decoration in opaque white and red., Spherical; vertical hol...
EditorialDistortion of the deviant and inclined sun-clocks, Guide to the construction of sundials, Tab. XXXV, p. 42, Tobias Mayer: Mathematischer Atlas, in welchem auf 60 Tabellen alle Theile der Mathematic vorgestellet und nicht allein ?berhaupt zu bequemer Wi...
EditorialNegative - Kingower District, Victoria, pre 1938, A house being moved by a steam traction engine. Although it has been braced the house appears to be developing some distortion. They have justt crossed a bridge.
EditorialFragments of a loading stick of a musket from the wreck of the East Indies sailor 't Vliegend Hart, who died in 1735. The two wood fragments were once part of a loading stick of a musket. The colors are gray / black / brown and it is probably coniferou...
EditorialShoulder cloth entertained into fichu of bobbin lace with 'Blomwerck', Shoulder cloth of natural-colored Brussels bobbin lace. Deformed into a fichu with a wide back that tapers into long narrow points. U-shaped model. Symmetrical leaf vines with 'seaw...
EditorialGlass mosaic bead, Early Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman, Egyptian, Alexandrian, Glass; rod-formed, 1 1/16 ? 1 3/16 in. (2.6 ? 2.9 cm), Glass, Translucent deep blue ground, appearing black; decoration in opaque white and red., Spherical; vertical hol...
Editorial'Picture Puzzle of Jonah and the Whale and a Squatting Peasant', 1537. The anamorphic, or distorted, view in this large, dated print shows Jonah stepping out from an imaginative whale but the landscape is not distorted. In the foreground, the stretched...