Artistíque

<n>Rock Solid</n> by <n>Michael Oliver Love</n> for <n>The Lake Magazine</n>, styled by <n>Peter Georgiades</n>.

<n>Eris</n> the <n>Borzoi</n>, owned by <n>Lily Kambourian</n>.

Jewelry by designer <n>Olivia Cummings</n> of <n>Cleopatra's Bling</n>.

Photo by <n>Thomas Ekstrøm</n> for the book <n>Vanlige potteplanter</n>, published by <n>Ljå Forlag</n>.

<n>Dog, Washington Square Park, NYC, 1983</n> by photographer <n>Thomas Hoepker</n>.

A Saluki named <n>Smile</n> wearing a decorative snood.

The <n>Gold Cosmetic Shell of King Sekhemkhet</n>, discovered by archaeologist <n>Zakaria Goneim</n> in 1954.

<n>Who are you when nobody's watching?</n> by artist <n>SAVAGEwav</n>.

<n>David Bowie</n> in the <n>Tokyo Pop Jumpsuit</n> by <n>Kansai Yamamoto</n>. Photo by <n>Masayoshi Sukita</n>, 1973.

A <n>Yoruba Sculpture</n> from <n>Carl Kjersmeier</n>'s 1935 book <n>African Negro sculpture</n>.

<n>Lee Krasner</n>'s collage painting, <n>Imperfect Indicative</n>, from 1976.

A still of <n>Sharon Tate</n> in the 1969 film <n>12 + 1</n>.

A hand-carved shell pendant in Labradorite, diamond, and 18k gold by <n>Laguna Agate</n>.

Artist <n>Pablo Picasso</n> in his Cannes studio, 1957. Photo by <n>Edward Quinn</n>.

<n>Bugne vases</n> designed by <n>Carlo Scarpa</n> for <n>Venini</n> in 1940.

<n>Etruscan</n> <n>gold earrings</n>, 4th–early 3rd century B.C. From the collection of <n>The Metropolitan Museum of Art</n>.

Actor <n>Jack Nicholson</n> photographed by <n>Annie Leibovitz</n> for <n>Vanity Fair</n> in 1992.

A 17th-century nautilus shell carved with floral scrolls by Dutch artist <n>Cornelis Bellekin</n>.

Abstract Expressionist artist <n>Willem de Kooning</n> in his studio.

Multiverse: Hiroshi Kondo's Dizzying Documentation of Taiwan's Busy Streets

Photograph by <n>Hans Namuth</n> of artist <n>Jackson Pollock</n> creating an <n>Abstract Expressionist</n> painting, 1950.

A tourist copies hieroglyphs at the <n>Karnak Temple Complex</n> in Egypt, 1927.

A composition of seashells, including a <n>Nautilus shell</n>, by <n>Karolina Grabowska</n>.

A 1949 portrait of <n>Jean Cocteau</n> by <n>Philippe Halsman</n> for the <n>Peggy Guggenheim Collection</n> exhibition.

<n>Warts and All</n>, a stone sculpture by <n>Peter Randall-Page</n>.

Seashell clutch purse by <n>David Webb</n>, circa 1965. From the <n>Museum of Fine Arts, Houston</n> collection.