Best Photos of the Day

India and Iran: Works on Paper at the London-based, Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch Ltd., includes a striking image of the Hindu God Vishnu as Venkateshvara, dated to the late 18th century. This gouache heightened with gold on paper, depicts the four-armed Hindu god Vishnu in his human avatar as Venkateshvara or forgiver of sins. It was painted in Andhra Pradesh in south India, probably at Tirupati, north-west of Madras (Chennai), where a school of painting flourished in the eighteenth century. The style of painting, with lavish use of gold, is distinctly south Indian.

Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum, and Daniel Radcliffe, the stars of "Lost City," in Los Angeles, Jan. 22, 2022. The new film comes with stakes specific to Hollywood’s post-pandemic future: will people still go see an old-fashioned comic adventure where the actors lack any superpowers besides A-list charisma? (Amy Harrity/The New York Times.

The composer Heather Christian, at home in Beacon, N.Y., March 6, 2022. The composer’s "Oratorio for Living Things," forced to shut down because of the pandemic, returns to the Ars Nova stage in Manhattan. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times.

Antwayn Hopper, left, and Alexandra Grey in the Encores production of "The Life," at New York City Center in March 2022. Billy Porter brings a heavy-handed touch as the director and adapter of this 1997 musical about prostitutes and pimps in Manhattan’s bad old days. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.

Isaiah Collier on saxophone gives out a fist bump at the Arts for Art On_Line Salon in Manhattan, March 1, 2022. The jazz club, with its dim lighting and closely packed tables, looms large in our collective imagination. But today, the music is thriving in a host of different spaces. (Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times.

NASA’s Space Launch Syste rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher in High Bay 3 of the Vehicle Assembly Building. Image: NASA/Joel Kowsky.

David Godine among the books at his home in Milton, Mass., March 10, 2022. The last book that will ever bear the David R. Godine imprint is, fittingly, by David Godine himself — it’s called "Godine at Fifty: A Retrospective of Five Decades in the Life of an Independent Publisher." (Tony Luong/The New York Times

The Spanish pop singer Rosalía in Los Angeles, Feb. 27, 2022. Rosalía, known for her reinvention of flamenco, has smashed together new sounds from the Latin world and beyond on her latest album, "Motomami." (Carlos Jaramillo/The New York Times

Sandra Bullock at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles on Sunday night, Jan. 5, 2020. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)

The director Kristjan Thor, left, and the playwright Tracy Weller on the set of "Hart Island" at the Gym at Judson in New York, March 12, 2022. Weller’s new multimedia theater piece focuses on those buried in New York City’s potter’s field and the inmates who dug the graves there. (Timothy O'Connell/The New York Times.