EditorialArtist Zachary Ginsberg sits in front of his painting “Party in the Reading Room” inside 345 Gallery, in New York on Feb. 22, 2023. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialArtist Zachary Ginsberg sits in front of his painting “Party in the Reading Room” inside 345 Gallery, in New York on Feb. 22, 2023. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Reading Room at the British Museum. Victorian gentlemen in top hats reading leather bound books in the library. Steel engraving by Henry Melville after an illustration by Thomas Hosmer Shepherd from London Interiors, Their Costumes and Ceremonies, ...