Best Photos of the Day

Lyndon Barrois Sr. with his sculpture of Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes at his home studio in Los Angeles, Feb. 7, 2024. Barrois, whose day job is high-tech animation, uses gum wrappers to create detailed portraits of historical figures and athletes in flight. .CREDIT: (Jessica Lehrman/The New York Times).

Dev Patel in New York, March 29, 2024. With his feature filmmaking debut, “Monkey Man,” Dev Patel joins a list of performers known for dramas taking on unlikely parts. (Justin J Wee/The New York Times).

Robert Smithson’s “Spiral Jetty” on the shores of Great Salt Lake, in Utah, Feb. 27, 2008. Singer, a sculptor whose work, beginning in beaver bogs and pine forests and proceeding at an increasingly grander scale, eventually blurring the lines of art, landscaping, architecture and urban planning, died on March 14, 2024, at his home in Delray Beach, Fla. He was 78. (Tom Smart/The New York Times).

South Korean luthier Ayoung An, a rising star in the violin-making world, works at her studio in Cremona, Italy, on Feb. 26, 2024. As a teenager, An decided to become a violin maker. Her journey eventually took her to Cremona, Italy, a famed hub for masters like Antonio Stradivari. (Sasha Arutyunova/The New York Times).

Alice Randall at home in Nashville, Tenn., March 22, 2024. In “My Black Country,” the musician and author who cracked a Nashville color barrier is telling her story — and hearing her songs reimagined. (Arielle Gray/The New York Times).

Judith Godrèche in Paris, March 25, 2024. “I don’t see myself as the messiah. I didn’t invent #MeToo. There were women who talked here before me,” Godrèche said. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times).

Rebel Wilson in New York, March 29, 2024. The actress, known for roles in the “Pitch Perfect” movies, gets vulnerable about her weight loss, sexuality and money in her new memoir, “Rebel Rising.” (Amir Hamja/The New York Times).

Visitors view films of interiors and some of the objects shown in them on display in “Crafting Modernity,” a new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, March 28, 2024. The new MoMA exhibition looks at design from six countries, spanning 1940 to 1980. (Clement Pascal/The New York Times).

The pianist Alice Sara Ott at Steinway Hall in New York, April 1, 2024. Ott, who makes her New York Philharmonic debut this week, is upending concert culture — and defying stereotypes about multiple sclerosis. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times).

The New York Mets team store at Citi Field, on Opening Day, March 29, 2024. At 10,000 square feet, the store is twice the size of its previous iteration and filled with new technology, art and merchandise. (Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet/The New York Times).