Best Photos of the Day

Artist Johnny McEwen works at his studio in East Belfast, Northern Ireland, on March 30, 2023. Deprived areas have been used to help bolster the Belfast art scene. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times).

The performance artist Karen Finley in “Covid Vortex Anxiety Opera Kitty Kaleidoscope Disco.” The veteran performance artist leads the audience through the troubles that plagued New York City at the peak of the pandemic. (Max Ruby via The New York Times).

Angélla Christie, right, performs at “Glory to Glory (A Revival for Devotional Art)” at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House in New York, April 7, 2023. Through Saint Heron, Solange brought Angélla Christie and the Clark Sisters for a night exploring Black religious music, and Linda Sharrock and Archie Shepp for a show that felt anything but safe. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

A rehearsal for Terence Blanchard’s opera “Champion,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, March 9, 2023. Performers in “Champion” evoke the world of boxing in choreography by Camille A. Brown. (Ike Edeani/The New York Times).

Marilyn Minter drinks from her multimedia sculpture, “Thirsty (Drinking Fountain)” (2022–23), at her studio in New York, March 2, 2023. In her most ambitious show to date, the 74-year-old artist is continuing to push the envelope with a new body of work. (Thea Traff/The New York Times).

An article by Arturo Alfonso Schomburg’s article “In Quest of Juan de Pareja,” in a 1927 issue of The Crisis, published by the NAACP, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, April 4, 2023. Pareja was immortalized in a portrait by Velázquez, his enslaver for two decades. At this exhibit, his own art and history take center stage. (Lila Barth/The New York Times).

The musician Thomas Bangalter, best known as half of the duo Daft Punk, at home in Paris, March 14, 2023. After more than two decades at the forefront of electronic dance music (while in a robot-style helmet), the French artist is releasing “Mythologies,” a score for traditional symphony orchestra. (Sam Hellmann/The New York Times).

Declan Meade, a founding editor of The Stinging Fly, at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin, March 22, 2023. In its 25 years, the magazine has become a source of community and a launchpad for Irish writers. (Ellius Grace/The New York Times).

Students relax near Elyn Zimmerman’s sculpture “Sudama” at its new home on the campus of American University in Washington, March 30, 2023. University officials said students began to see the sculpture site as a good place to relax once the construction fencing came down. (Justin T. Gellerson/The New York Times).

A sculpture on the Keyes Art Mile, where several museums are located, in Rosebank, an arts district in Johannesburg, South Africa, March 21, 2023. Partly spurred by the city’s strict pandemic lockdowns, many Joburgers are now rediscovering the outdoors and the city’s Goldilocks weather (not too hot, not too cold) to dine and dance under the open sky. (Joao Silva/The New York Times).