EditorialThe five-story townhouse, with around 11,600 square feet of space, at 8 East 75th Street, pictured on Jan. 28, 2020, that Mortimer D.A. Sackler, of the Sackler pharmaceutical family, sold in that month for $38 million. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Just a day after British artist Pete Doherty was released following a cocaine bust, French police arrested him again after a drunken brawl in Paris.
EditorialStele of Ushumgal, Early Dynastic I, 2900?2700 B.C., Mesopotamia, probably from Umma (modern Jokha), Sumerian, Gypsum alabaster, H. 22.4 x W. 14.7 x D. 9.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.), Stone-Reliefs-Inscribed, Among the earliest written documents fr...
EditorialThe Annunciation, Oil and gold on linden, 6 5/16 x 4 1/8 in. (16 x 10.5 cm), Paintings, South German (Bavarian?) Painter (1440?50), Locating the Annunciation in a private chamber, this small southern German panel is strongly influenced by early Netherl...
EditorialNear East. Mesopotamia. Sumer. Bulla (seal). Inscribed pieces of clay by used by the Sumerians in 8th millennia BC. Used for agricultural transaction as a form of identification and for tamper-proofing. Bullae with seal impressions. Lagash. Presargonic...