EditorialJohn Ruff, left, a museum gallery attendant and former English professor, and Richard Brauer, a retired art professor for whom the school’s art museum is named after, sit in front of Frederic Church's “Mountain Landscape”, at the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, Roslyn Ruff, James Vincent Meredith and Paige Gilbert as the Antrobus family during a rehearsal of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth,” directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, at Lincoln Center’s Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York on March 31, 2022. (Richard Termine/The New York Times)
EditorialA photo from the Library of Congress of Frances B. Johnston setting up a camera alongside her assistant Huntley Ruff in 1938. (Library of Congress via The New York Times)
EditorialFamily of DMX give emotional speechs along with Ruff Ryderz on stage and are spotted in the hallways inside family memorial for the late rapper in Brooklyn
EditorialMore than 1,000 people, largely members of the Ruff Ryders motorcycle club, form a procession in Yonkers, N.Y., on Saturday, April 24, 2021. (Simbarashe Cha/The New York Times)
EditorialRoslyn Ruff and fellow actors perform a preview of Claudia Rankine’s “Help,” which was canceled by the pandemic, at the Shed in New York, March 8, 2020. (Rachel Papo/The New York Times)
EditorialRoslyn Ruff and fellow actors play a scene from Claudia Rankine’s “Help” at the Shed, in New York, March 8, 2020. (Rachel Papo/The New York Times)