EditorialMao. Andy Warhol; American, 1928-1987. Date: 1972. Dimensions: 448.3 ? 346.7 cm (176 1/2 ? 136 1/2 in.). Synthetic polymer paint and silkscreen ink on canvas. Origin: United States.
EditorialStill Life #41. Tom Wesselmann; American, 1931-2004. Date: 1964. Dimensions: 121.9 x 152.4 x 20.3 cm (48 x 60 x 8 in.). Synthetic polymer paint on wood and plastic. Origin: United States.
EditorialMold (Muffa). Alberto Burri; Italian, 1915-1995. Date: 1946-1956. Dimensions: 72.1 x 80 cm (28 3/8 x 31 1/2 in.), without frame. Oil, synthetic polymer, pumice, and metallic paint on canvas. Origin: Italy.
EditorialReplica of the lab worktable on which the Italian chemist Giulio Natta (1903-1979) worked and invented the first synthetic plastic of second generation: the isotactic polypropylene. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci. Milan. It...
EditorialA dirt field, site of a proposed sports complex with a synthetic turf, parking and locker rooms, in Livemmo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2022. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
EditorialA dirt field, site of a proposed sports complex with a synthetic turf, parking and locker rooms, in Livemmo, Italy, on Nov. 18, 2022. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times)
EditorialMarco Alverà’s synthetic substitute for fossil fuels “can go in the same ships, the same pipes, the same factories,” he says. (Patrick Junker/The New York Times)
EditorialMarco Alverà’s synthetic substitute for fossil fuels “can go in the same ships, the same pipes, the same factories,” he says. (Patrick Junker/The New York Times)
EditorialLeft, a reconstruction of the marble funerary stele of Paramythion and Pheidiades, 2008, by Vinzenz Brinkmann and Ulrike Koch-Brinkmann with synthetic marble, egg tempura and Right, a marble stele (grave marker) of Eukleia from Greece, ca. 380 B.C.–370 B.C. at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York on Aug. 11, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialArtist Tiona Nekkia McClodden holds a piece of Kydex, a synthetic material used for gun cases, in her studio in Philadelphia, Pa. on July 18, 2022. (Hannah Price/The New York Times)
EditorialLauren Halsey sits in front of her installation “My Hope” (2022), with “Untitled” (2022), made of synthetic hair on wood, hanging at right at David Kordansky Gallery in New York on May 4, 2022. (Naima Green/The New York Times)
EditorialLauren Halsey sits in front of her installation “My Hope” (2022), with “Untitled” (2022), made of synthetic hair on wood, hanging at right at David Kordansky Gallery in New York on May 4, 2022. (Naima Green/The New York Times)
EditorialRobert Clark, a homeless man, with food he received from a pop-up soup line near Sarah D. Roosevelt Park, which he says is known for sales of the synthetic cannabinoid K2, in Manhattan, Feb. 27, 2022. (Andrew Seng/The New York Times)
EditorialA variety of tobacco-free nicotine products at the home of Robert Jackler in Stanford, Calif., March 3, 2022. (Ian C. Bates/The New York Times)
EditorialOver 1,200 of Hollywoods biggest blockbuster film Artifacts and 20th and 21st century screen gems including John Travoltas Pulp Fiction suit and casino chips from James Bond film Casino Royale to dazzle the auction block