A pig, a bowl of food, and other visions for 2012

Wiener Werkstatte New Years card by Mela Koehler, c. 1908-1914

New Years Eve, c 1935-43, Albert Abramowitz

Bowl of New Years Food, Teisai Hokuba, 1808

Times Square, New Years Eve (detail), c 1945, International News photo; MCNY

from “284 views of a party, New Year's Eve party at home of Robert Penn Warren" by Walker Evans,December 31, 1960

7am (New Years Day) c1930, Moholy-Nagy

All images except noted Metropolitan Museum of Art.