Best Photos of the Day

Jochen Sandig, a co-founder of the Tacheles squat who now runs two art spaces, in Berlin, Sept. 7, 2023. The new branch of a Stockholm-based center for photography exhibitions anchors a complex with luxury apartments, high-end office spaces and a shopping plaza where a post-reunification utopian squat for artists and anarchists once thrived. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times)

Marylouise Burke, left, and Christina Kirk in Annie Baker's "Infinite Life," at the Linda Gross Theater in New York, Aug. 17, 2023. Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker's weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)

Oscar L. Tang and Agnes Hsu-Tang with Deborah Borda, the New York Philharmonic's former president and chief executive, at a New York Philharmonic gala in New York, Dec. 2, 2021. The Philharmonic announced on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, that it had secured a $40 million donation from the financier Oscar L. Tang, a co-chairman of its board, and his wife, Agnes Hsu-Tang, an archaeologist and art historian, the largest contribution to the endowment in the ensemble's 181-year history. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)

Tarell Alvin McCraney in New York, Dec. 2, 2019. McCraney, an acclaimed playwright who won an Oscar for writing the story that became the 2016 film "Moonlight," has been named the next artistic director of the Geffen Playhouse, a prominent nonprofit theater in Los Angeles. (Krista Schlueter/The New York Times)

The pianist Aaron Diehl in New York, Aug. 31, 2023. Diehl, a pianist admired in both jazz and classical circles, recorded Mary Lou Williams's "Zodiac Suite" with the adventurous chamber orchestra the Knights. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

An undated photo provided by the Hammer Museum of Chiffon Thomas's "Untitled" (2021), which includes wood pieces salvaged from colonial and Victorian houses --- materials he associates with the legacy of racism. The Hammer Museum's biennial exhibition, "Made in L.A.," showcases several artists steeped in the assemblage art form, which is now flourishing in the city. (Hammer Museum via The New York Times)

Zakiya Dalila Harris, who helped to adapt her novel "The Other Black Girl" into a Hulu series, in New York, Aug. 30, 2023. This satirical workplace thriller tracks the plight of an assistant as she endures terrors both mysterious and banal. (Mark Elzey/The New York Times)

Felix G. Rohatyn, who helped rescue New York City from insolvency in the 1970s, in 1981. A documentary about the city's fiscal crisis of the 1970s, co-directed by the son of one of its saviors, won the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film. (Larry C. Morris/The New York Times)

Lauren Groff, a three-time National Book Award finalist, in Gainesville, Fla., Sept. 28, 2023. Groff's most recent book is "The Vaster Wilds," about a young woman who escapes from Jamestown, Va., in the 17th century. (Zack Wittman/The New York Times)

An infrared photograph of the people sitting at tables outside the courts during the U.S. Open at the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, Sept. 3, 2023. Discovered by the astronomer William Herschel in 1800, infrared resides beyond the visible spectrum of humans and has been used for numerous scientific and industrial purposes since the early 1900s --- and for art photography since the mid-1900s. (Karsten Moran/The New York Times)