EditorialCharles Smith, the visionary artist and creator of the African-American Heritage Museum and Black Veterans Archive, at his trailer-house studio in Hammond, La., on June 10, 2022. (Annie Flanagan/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)
EditorialA woman watching a projected image. The text below is a translated explanation: "The Kinetograph record the movement of man and reproduce exactly as phonograph records and reproduces his voice. In five or six years, you will enjoy this wonderful compos...
EditorialSukkah, a room or building in which the Jewish Thanksgiving festival is celebrated. This painted sukkah is from Fischach, Germany, and depicts daily life in the village, interspersed with pictures of a visionary Jerusalem. Early 19th.
EditorialThe Visionary, Print made by Samuel Cousins, 18011887, British, after Henry Liverseege, 18031832, British, Published by Moon, Boys & Graves, ca. 18121892, British, and John Clowes Grundy, 18061867, British, 1833, Mezzotint, stipple engraving, and line ...
EditorialRodolphe Bresdin, The Bather and Time, 1856, pen and black ink on tan tracing paper, mounted on cream wove paper, 4 in. x 2 13/16 in. (10.2 cm x 7.1 cm), Rodolphe Bresdin, one of the most visionary and eccentric graphic artists of the nineteenth centur...
EditorialEugenio Lucas Velazquez, Mancha, ca. 1840-1870, ink wash on paper, 6 1/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (15.56 cm x 23.5 cm), Lucas engaged in two distinct categories of artistic production. One of these was a self- conscious emulation of the work of Goya, in both pa...
EditorialEurope. Work project to connect the ports of Calais (France) and Dover (England), through the English Channel. Engraving depicting the longitudinal section of the underwater tunnel. Visionary project of the French engineer Aime Thome de Gamond (1807-18...
EditorialA Thephilanthropist, religious sect founded by the visionary Catherine Theot, Directory era, 1795-1799. Handcoloured lithograph from Le Bibliophile Jacob aka Paul Lacroix's Costumes Historiques de la France (Historical Costumes of France), Administrati...
EditorialPrinces blue electric guitar, Madonnas Vogue outfit and Michael Jacksons loafers among memorabilia going under the hammer in huge music icons auction
EditorialEurope. Work project to connect the ports of Calais (France) and Dover (England), through the English Channel. Engraving depicting the longitudinal section of the underwater tunnel. Visionary project of the French engineer Aime Thome de Gamond (1807-18...
EditorialIncipit to St John's Gospel. The Ascension; below, St John enthroned between two visionary events of the Old Testament, and figures of the prophets commenting upon them. Bible ('The Floreffe Bible'), vol. II (Job - Revelation). Meuse Valley; circa 1155...