Best Photos of the Day

On July 8th, 2022, The Warehouse Art Museum in Milwaukee, WI hosted an opening reception for their newest exhibition, "William Kentridge: See for Yourself." This exhibition invites you to experience one of the largest private collections of South African artist William Kentridge's work in the U.S., featuring prints, drawings, films, and sculpture in a variety of media from throughout the artist’s career, and focusing on how meaning is constructed through processes of making and interactive looking.

Luke Treadaway in Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, July 12, 2022. After enduring illnesses and last-minute casting changes, two Icke productions have finally settled into a repertory groove. Jeenah Moon/The New York Times.

Paul Sorvino, center, as Tony in a rehearsal of the New York City Opera production of the musical "The Most Happy Fella" in New York, March 3, 2006. Sorvino, the tough-guy actor — and operatic tenor and figurative sculptor — known for his roles as calm and often courteously quiet but dangerous men in films like “Goodfellas” and television shows like “Law & Order,” died on Monday, July 25, 2022. He was 83. Sara Krulwich/The New York Times.

Maggie Rogers at the Met Cloisters in New York, June 28, 2022. Musicians often talk about seeking the divine in their work — the 28-year-old singer-songwriter went to Harvard to study it as she made her second major-label album, “Surrender.” OK McCausland/The New York Times.

Rows of film rentals behind the desk at Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn, June 4, 2022. Film Noir opened in 2005 as a walk-in closet of DVD rentals and expanded in 2017 to include a 54-seat cinema. Isaiah Winters/The New York Times.

The first floor entrance to “New York 1962-1964,” a survey of nearly 300 art works and archival objects at the Jewish Museum in Manhattan, July 19, 2022. Artists in the early 1960s drew from a heady mix: Mad Magazine and Marilyn; the civil rights movement and the death of a president; queer bodies and “Pieta” — it’s all at the Jewish Museum. Lila Barth/The New York Times.

Inside Smoke, a jazz club on the Upper West Side of New York, July 7, 2022. This storefront club that’s been mostly shuttered since spring 2020 has long been home to small-group jazz steeped in tradition — now, it reopens, with some renovations. Geoffrey Haggray/The New York Times.

In an image provided by Rosalie O’Connor, Daniel Camargo dances with Christine Shevchenko in “Don Quixote” for the American Ballet Theater. Camargo’s breakout first season at the ABT changed the Brazilian’s rank from guest artist to principal. Rosalie O’Connor via The New York Times.

Attendees watch a performance of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, during “Summer for the City” at Damrosch Park in Manhattan, July 19, 2022. The re-conceived festival is moving away from classical music, a genre that has been central to the Lincoln Center’s identity for decades. Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times.

The site of Mycologia, a weekend festival staged by DoubleBlind in Cuyama Valley, Calif., June 25, 2022. Sound baths, cannabis prayers and sunset howls: DoubleBlind, a California media company, tries to revive the psychedelic spirit for a new generation. Michael Tyrone Delaney/The New York Times.