EditorialMary Beth Edelson, right, with the curator Olga M. Viso, left, and the artist Linda Cunningham at a Whitney Museum of American Art event in New York in 2004. (Bill Cunningham/The New York Times)
Editorial?? ??????, Handle-Shaped Blade, Western Zhou dynasty (1046?771 B.C.), 10th?9th century B.C., China, Jade (nephrite), L. 10 15/16 in. (26.1 cm), Jade, Throughout the Shang and Zhou dynasties, jade continued to be used in the creation of ritualistic obje...
EditorialHuman hands in red and black. Imprints on the walls of the Cave de Gargas, France. No such imprints have been found elsewhere, nor is it known why some fingers are of rather different shape or whether the imprints have a ritualistic or mythological mea...