Best Photos of the Day

A detail of “Saint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books,” a tapestry designed by the Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst in the 1530s at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. “The Tudors” shows how the English Renaissance was the work of wily leaders and enterprising foreigners. No dynasty has better captured the modern imagination. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times).

A view of Downing Park in Newburgh, N.Y., Oct. 24, 2022. A controversy over an African American burial ground is pitted against the desire to preserve an Olmsted landscape. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times).

Francois Battiste as Walter Lee, right, with his son Toussaint Battiste as Travis, in a revival of Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun,” at the Public Theater in New York, on Sept. 29, 2022. Battiste has no difficulty filling the additional space created by Robert O’Hara’s interpretation of the role, our critic writes. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Kanye West, now known as Ye, in New York, Sept. 12 2022. The German sportswear giant Adidas has become is the latest company to cut ties with the rapper and designer over his antisemitic outbursts and other provocations. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times).

Paul Mescal in London, Oct. 13, 2022. The actor, who became a sudden sex symbol with Hulu’s “Normal People,” stars as another psychologically complex character in the A24 feature “Aftersun.” (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times).

Seats made by Kirwin & Simpson in the auditorium of the Theater Royal in London’s West End, Oct. 23, 2022. One family firm supplies seating for most of the West End’s theaters, from flexible new spaces to Victorian treasures. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times).

Robin Skinner, the musician who records and performs as Cavetown, in London, Oct. 7, 2022. The 23-year-old British singer-songwriter has a listenership devoted to his sensitive (but not despairing) music. (Guy Bolongaro/The New York Times).

The choreographer Emily Johnson in her “Being Future Being” at New York Live Arts, in which she asks what would happen if “every one of us turned every one of our cells toward justice?,” Oct. 20, 2022. In her latest dance project, Johnson tackles seemingly immovable problems from the ground up. (Caitlin Ochs/The New York Times).

Katy Sullivan and David Zayas in a performance of the play “Cost of Living” at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater in New York, Sept. 15, 2022. The playwright Martyna Majok dedicated the Pulitzer Prize-winning play, about the precarity of life, to her departed grandfather. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Sondra Radvanovsky in the title role in “Medea,” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Sept. 20, 2022. Radvanovsky, 53, has approached Medea — one of the most demanding in opera — with focus and purpose, including boxing sessions with a personal trainer to build stamina and strength. “You can’t just act it,” she said. “You really have to live it.” (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).