MGM/Photofest

From left: George Segal, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (1966).Courtesy of the Everett Collection

Michael Wadleigh’s “Wolfen” (1981).Orion/Courtesy of the Everett Collection

Satoshi Kon’s “Papurika” (“Paprika,” 2006).© Sony Pictures

Mary Evans/All Film Archive/Everett Collection

David Bornfriend, © A24/Courtesy of the Everett Collection

Chibesa Mulumba/© A24/Courtesy of the Everett Collection

Babek Ahmed Poor in “Khane-ye doust kodjast?” (“Where Is the Friend’s House?,” 1987).DreamLab Films

Bridgeman Images

Lucille Clifton in 1995.Afro American Newspapers/Gado/Getty Images

“Rendezvous in the Milky Way,” a late 19th- or early 20th-century hand-painted woodblock print, depicts a scene from “The Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.”© The State Hermitage Museum. Photo: Vladimir Terebenin

© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation/Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of Holt/Smithson Foundation. Photo: Nancy Holt

On loan from His Majesty the King, Royal Collection Trust/© 2023 His Majesty King Charles III

Roberto Montenegro, “The Double” (1938).Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection

Robert Barry’s “Inert Gas Series: Helium” (1969).Courtesy of Robert Barry and Galerie Greta Meert

Collection of the National Palace Museum

Pierre Huyghe, “Untilled (Liegender Frauenakt)” (2012).© 2026 Pierre Huyghe/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, courtesy of Art Gallery of Ontario. Photo: AGO

Marina Abramović performing “The Artist Is Present” at the Museum of Modern Art in 2010.Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, N.Y.

Robert Mapplethorpe, “Joe, NYC, 1978” © Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, used with permission

Courtesy of the brand

Halwah.Stock Image Factory/Adobe Stock

The actress Toni Collette as Queenie in a 2000 production of “The Wild Party.”© Carol Rosegg, Billy Rose Theatre Division, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Records/Alamy

Alondra de la Parra.Peter Rigaud

Anthony Roth Costanzo in the Metropolitan Opera’s 2022 production of “Akhnaten.”Ken Howard/Met Opera

Unseen Records

© NPL-DeA Picture Library/Bridgeman Images

Chic in 1981.Lynn Goldsmith/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

Madonna performing at Wembley Stadium in London on her Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990.Duncan Raban/Popperfoto via Getty Images

The 2006 New York City premiere of “Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven.”Carl Skutsch

Stephen Spinella (front) and Ellen McLaughlin in a 1993 production of “Angels of America.”Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the Everett Collection

© Agency for Cultural Affairs

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Scroll-shaped carvings at the top.

The Breuer Building (1966) in New York by Marcel Breuer, originally designed for the Whitney Museum of American Art.Colin Miller

Donald Judd Furniture © Judd Foundation

Rainer Hackenberg/Visum/Redux

Heritage Images/Hulton Fine Art Collection/Getty Images

Anne Hathaway’s cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.David Jones/Alamy

London Stereoscopic Company/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

Steve Granitz/A.P.