Best Photos of the Day

Deborah Borda, the president of the New York Philharmonic, and Henry Timms, the president of Lincoln Center, in New York, Dec. 1, 2019. Borda led the orchestra in the 1990s, and was frustrated by its subpar hall. After a 17-year run in Los Angeles, she “finally saw a path forward,” she said. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).

Wendell Pierce at the Civilian Hotel in New York on Sept.15, 2022. A Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was “born to play.”(Nate Palmer/The New York Times).

Kalush Orchestra, Ukraine’s entry to the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest, in Turin, Italy, April 12, 2022. Kalush won the Eurovision 2022 contest. (Alessandro Grassani/The New York Times).

The folk singer Ramblin’ Jack Elliott in Marin, Calif., Sept. 15, 2022. The 91-year-old singer and expert flatpicker is one of the last of the ’50s era folk music revivalists still on the road today. (Aubrey Trinnaman/The New York Times).

The solo bass-baritone Davóne Tines sings in front of an enlarged reproduction of a painting by Julie Mehretu, with the flex dancer Jeremy “Opt” Perez laying on the gangway below, in Tyshawn Sorey’s “Monochromatic Light (Afterlife)” at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, Sept. 26, 2022. The production, by the avant-garde journeyman Peter Sellars, has been souped up for the Armory’s cavernous drill hall and augmented with young dancers. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times).

From left, Janai Brugger, Michele Pertusi and Matthew Polenzani in Luigi Cherubini’s 1797 opera “Medea,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Sept. 20, 2022. Behind the singers is a reflection of a dinner table and guests. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Liu Jingyao, a University of Minnesota student who accused the Chinese billionaire Richard Liu of rape, in Minneapolis, Aug. 4, 2019. Liu Jingyao is not the first young woman to accuse a powerful Chinese businessman of rape. But she is one of the first to pursue her case in an American courtroom. (Caroline Yang/The New York Times).

Anthony Bourdain on Pier 57, where he was planning to open Bourdain Market, in New York, Sept. 20, 2015. A new, unauthorized biography reveals intimate, often raw, details of the TV star’s life and death — and it’s drawing criticism from many of his friends and family. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times).

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, May 6, 2021. The Academy Museum attracted about 20% more people than it expected since opening in September 2021. (Alex Welsh/The New York Time).

Andres Valencia at the Chase Contemporary Gallery in the SoHo neighborhood of New York, where his art was exhibited this summer, Aug. 1, 2022. “I’m glad I can make people happy with my art and they can hang it in their homes,” Andres said. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times.).