EditorialVisitors explore the upper level of the trampoline-like steel web of “Free The Air: How to Hear the Universe in a Spider/Web,” a centerpiece of Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition at the Shed in New York on Feb. 12, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialVisitors explore the upper level of the trampoline-like steel web of “Free The Air: How to Hear the Universe in a Spider/Web,” a centerpiece of Tomás Saraceno’s exhibition at the Shed in New York on Feb. 12, 2022. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialEuropean garden spider, diadem spider, Araneus diadematus. Mass of spider eggs and young 1, and spiders spinning cobwebs and silk lines 2,3,4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar...
EditorialArlen Love, a passionate fan of Cleveland sports teams, wearing a T-shirt he designed, at his home in Vancouver, Wash., Jan. 19, 2021. (Leah Nash/The New York Times)
EditorialAn undated image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions, shows an image depicting a dorsal view of a highly venomous brown recluse spider, Loxosceles reclusa, featuring a characteristic violin-shaped marking visible on its dorsal cephalothorax. (Margaret Parsons/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention via The New York Times)
EditorialTablecloth, Medium: silk, cotton Technique: embroidery and cutwork on plain weave, Round tablecloth has embroidery and cutwork in an elaborate design of irises and spider webs with spiders. Cutwork areas have spoked grey threads worked with thinner gre...
EditorialTextile, Medium: linen warp, wool weft Technique: plain weave with discontinuous weft (slit tapestry), Fragment of woven Coptic medallion showing the hind quarter of a lion, two spiders or crabs, and abstracted floral border., Egypt, 500600, woven text...
EditorialIllustration shows spiders. Arachnida. - Spinnentiere, 1 print : color lithograph ; sheet 36 x 26 cm., 1904. Ernst Haeckel 1834 ? 1919 German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor, and artist who discovered, described and named thous...
EditorialPinktoe tarantula, Avicularia avicularia 1,2, Italian species of tarantula wolf spiders, Lycosa tarantula 3-6, venomous spider from Curacao 7,8. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Christian Leinberger from Georg Wolfgang Knorr'...
EditorialStrip of bobbin lace with zigzag and fan blades, Strip of natural-colored bobbin lace, lace-up. Symmetrical and in coarse thread. Short and wide zigzags, half matte and half blocked, are filled towards with butterflies with fan blades and on the inside...
EditorialLeaf with various insects and spiders, bloodless animals. / insectae. / insectes (title on object), Leaf with various insects, spiders and an earthworm, numbered 1-20. Numbered top right: 16. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish, shells and in...