Best Photos of the Day

A musician makes notes during a rehearsal of Ivo van Hove's production of "Dead Man Walking" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York on Sept. 15, 2023. "Dead Man Walking" is among the contemporary works that make up about a third of the Met's season. (Lila Barth/The New York Times).

Players pick up their game shirts before a "Drunk vs. Stoned" soccer game in Montauk, N.Y., Sept. 17, 2023. In Montauk, an end-of-summer art show and sporting event served as a kind of referendum on two altered states. (Johnny Milano/The New York Times).

Elucid, left, and Billy Woods in Brooklyn, Sept. 22, 2023. The New York rap duo tackle inequality, aging and anxiety on their sixth album, "We Buy Diabetic Test Strips." (Amir Hamja/The New York Times).

A performance of "Black Sabbath: The Ballet," at The Hippodrome in Birmingham, England, Sept. 23, 2023. Carlos Acosta's first major commission as the leader of Birmingham Royal Ballet celebrates a local band and the hard-rocking genre it invented. (Ellie Smith/The New York Times).

Tangerine Dream performs at Mohawk Austin in Austin, Texas, Sept. 14, 2023. The group founded in 1967 has carried on after the death of its longtime leader, Edgar Froese, but his impact on its music is still resonating. (Ilana Panich-Linsman/The New York Times).

Julia Fox in New York, Nov. 17, 2019. The mischief and mayhem of her life are on display in a new memoir, and no one emerges spotless. (Daniel Arnold/The New York Times).

From left, Prin, SEN and jiGook of QI.X on a rooftop in Seoul, South Korea, July 21, 2023. In conservative South Korea, few LGBTQ entertainers have ever come out — the young members of QI.X don't see the point of staying in. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times).

The director Darren Lee leads a rehearsal of "Tiananmen: A New Musical," at The Phoenix Theatre Company in Phoenix, Sept. 12, 2023. The original lead actor and director withdrew from the Phoenix production of a show about the 1989 pro-democracy protests, a topic that China aggressively censors. (Adriana Zehbrauskas/The New York Times).

In an undated image provided by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at Columbia University, John Zorn. Zorn is being celebrated in a series of concerts at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. (Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at Columbia University via The New York Times).

The window display at Cardews of Oxford in Oxford, England on Sept. 1, 2023. At Cardews, which boasts that it is the "oldest established supplier of fresh roasted coffees and fine teas in Oxford," staff members agreed that people were increasingly seeking coffee. (Gabriella Demczuk/The New York Times).