EditorialFour “Inflated Aluminum Chairs” (2021) by Zachary Besner on display at International Objects, a new art and design gallery in Bushwick, Brooklyn, April 8, 2023. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)
EditorialAssyrian soldiers assault a fortified city by swimming across a river on inflated animal skins. Detail from Ashurnazirpal's siege of a city. Stone bas-relief (9th BCE) from the palace of Ashurnazirpal II in Nimrud, Mesopotamia.
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialThomas Barrack, an informal adviser to former President Donald Trump, arrives at federal court in Brooklyn for jury selection in his trial on Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. (Jefferson Siegel/The New York Times)
EditorialDonald Trump Jr. and Ivanka Trump look on as their father, then-President Donald Trump, speaks at a rally in Dalton, Ga., on Jan. 4, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialMichael Cohen testifies before the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Feb. 27, 2019. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialGene Freidman leaves a courthouse in Albany, N.Y., in 2019. He avoided prison by cooperating with a federal investigation into one of his partners, the lawyer Michael Cohen. Evgeny Alender Freidman, known as Gene, a cabdriver’s son who schemed his way to become the nation’s biggest taxi mogul and came to personify both the inflated ascent of the industry in New York City and its crushing financial collapse, died on Sunday, Oct. 24, 2021 in Manhattan. He was 50. His death, in a Manhattan hospital, apparently from complications of a heart attack, was confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel funeral home. (Patrick Dodson/The New York Times)