Best Photos of the Day

Some of the structures featured at the Art Shanty Projects on frozen Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. The Art Shanty Projects, in which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats recreate traditional ice fishing huts in their own eccentric style, was closed days later due to rising temperatures. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times).

In an undated image provided by Kinmoku, a screenshot from Videoverse, a visual novel that follows the final days of the online social network for a fictional gaming system in 2003. Developers have created nostalgic experiences recalling online life before homogenized websites and algorithmic social media feeds. (Kinmoku via The New York Times).

The author R.F. Kuang at the Boston Public Library in Boston, May 2, 2023. Kuang, a Chinese American fantasy writer, has said she is weary of the literary world’s tendency to promote her and her work as “diverse.” (Sophie Park/The New York Times).

The composer Oliver Leith in Los Angeles, Jan. 23, 2024. Leith’s opera, based on the Gus Van Sant film that fictionalized the end of Kurt Cobain’s life, has its U.S. premiere in Los Angeles. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times).

Taylor Mac, center, during a rehearsal of the musical-opera-variety show “Bark of Millions” at the BAM rehearsal studios in Brooklyn, Jan. 30, 2024. Matt Ray’s score of 55 original songs that add up to four hours of performance. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Jesse L. Martin, second from left, with the original Broadway company of “Rent” at the New York Theater Workshop in New York in 1996. The classically trained actor taps into his powers of observation to play a behavioral science professor in the NBC series “The Irrational.” (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Himalayan art on display at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York on Feb. 3, 2006. The museum has repatriated several religious artworks that were smuggled out of Nepal. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times).

Multimedia artist Paul Pfeiffer in his studio in East Harlem with part of the series “Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (#32)” in which he altered photos of basketball stars, in New York on Jan. 22, 2024. Pfeiffer’s transcendent manipulations of broadcast footage are intimate confrontations with spectacles meant for millions. (Victor Llorente/The New York Times).

Maya Erskine in Los Angeles, Jan. 23, 2024. The actor and writer is staring alongside Donald Glover in a series reboot of the 2005 action comedy “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” (Chantal Anderson/The New York Times).

The artist Sunday Nobody with an aluminum mold he used to make hot dog sculptures out of frozen hot dog water at his studio in Seattle, Jan. 25, 2024. The artist has found millions of viewers with his elaborate, absurdist projects — they are not, he insists, “a waste of a human life.” (Meron Tekie Menghistab/The New York Times).