Best Photos of the Day

A rehearsal of Komische Oper's staging of Hans Werner Henze's "The Raft of the Medusa," in a hangar at Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, Sept. 13, 2023. The show received a monumental staging by Tobias Kratzer for the Komische Oper in Berlin, set around and within a pool in a Tempelhof hangar. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times).

President Joe Biden with first lady Jill Biden at a leaders' reception at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (Doug Mills/The New York Times).

Behind the scenes at a taping of "Live With Kelly and Mark," in New York, Sept. 6, 2023. "We know how to compartmentalize," Kelly Ripa said of keeping certain elements of her and her husband's personal and professional lives separate. (Philip Montgomery/The New York Times).

From left, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Kara Young, Leslie Odom Jr. and Heather Alicia Simms during a rehearsal of a revival of "Purlie Victorious," in New York, Aug. 29, 2023. Set in the late 1950s on a plantation in the segregated South, the story follows a preacher's return home to Georgia to claim a $500 inheritance, which he wants to use to buy and integrate the local church. (Elias Williams/The New York Times).

The eagle-shaped entryway to the "World's UnFair" experience, in the Queens borough of New York on Sept. 14, 2023. In "The World's UnFair," a Creative Time project in Queens in the form of a wry carnival, a collective redirects the resources of the art world toward returning Indigenous land. (Dina Litovsky/The New York Times).

Zoe Aurora Grimes, the librarian at Lizard Tree Library, at the library in Slab City, Calif., Aug. 14, 2023. The Salvation Mountain sculpture there stands resolute, a reminder of one man's ceaseless vision, and the care others have taken to try to stop it from succumbing to the harshness of the environment. (Kitra Cahana/The New York Times).

A of leisure activities, which reflects the city's postwar prosperity, on display at the Brooklyn Public Library's Center for Brooklyn History, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society, in New York in September 2023. The Center for Brooklyn History has reopened after a three-year renovation, with free admission and an emphasis on outreach. (Sarah Shatz/The New York Times).

Dancers dressed as poisonous plants in "Heart of Brick," at the Joyce Theater in New York, Sept. 15, 2023. The production, about the slow rewards of romance, starring the musician serpentwithfeet, premiered at the Joyce Theater in Manhattan on Friday. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times).

Patricia McBride coaches one of the lead dancers in the New York City Ballet's "Rubies," in New York, Sept. 7, 2018. "The off-balance stuff is tricky," McBride said, "but if you got the musicality, that would help you." (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times).

A demonstration against the soprano Anna Netrebko takes place outside the Berlin State Opera, where she was appearing for the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, in Berlin, Sept. 15, 2023. The Russian star soprano appeared in her first staged opera in Germany since the Ukraine invasion, still under fire for her past support for President Vladimir Putin. (Lena Mucha/The New York Times).