Best Photos of the Day

A detail from the interior of “Align” (2022), the centerpiece of Xaviera Simmons’s exhibition at the Queens Museum in New York, Sept. 29, 2022. In contrast to the blunt message on the structure’s exterior, the interior is a place for visitors to watch videos and images of landscapes and an opportunity for respite and contemplation. (Jasmine Clarke/The New York Times).

Members of the Paul Taylor Dance Company, from left, front, Christina Lynch Markham and Eran Bugge, and, back, Madelyn Ho and Devon Louis, in the premiere of “Solitaire,” by the company’s resident choreographer, Lauren Lovette, at the David H. Koch Theater at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York, Nov. 1, 2022. For its Lincoln Center season, the Paul Taylor Dance Company presents premieres by Lovette and Amy Hall Garner, along with the classics. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times).

Members of the Sol Azteca dance company perform on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022, at a church fund-raising festival at San Judas Tadeo Catholic Church in San Luis, Arizona. San Luis, a small farming outpost on the border, played a key role in the movie “2,000 Mules.” (Caitlin O'Hara/The New York Times).

A scene from the Broadway version of the musical “KPOP,” in previews at Circle in the Square Theater, in New York, Oct. 12, 2022. The creative team revamped the off-Broadway hit so that the show, now a mockumentary about a U.S. tour for a K-pop entertainment roster, moves “around the audience” at Circle in the Square. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Subhash Kapoor is escorted to court by police in Jeyamkondam, India, July 8, 2015. Kapoor, a former Madison Avenue art dealer whom investigators had identified as a major antiquities smuggler, has been convicted and sentenced to prison in India on burglary and illegal export charges in November 2022. (Amirtharaj Stephen/The New York Times).

“Fortune Teller,” 1995, by Rigoberto Torres, with Maribel Echevarria, the model and subject of the piece, 27 years later, from the “Swagger and Tenderness” show at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, in New York, Oct. 29, 2022. Torres and John Ahearn spent decades capturing the verve and scruff of Bronx residents in plaster and paint, but now a new survey at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the artists’ first in 30 years, brings their vision home. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times).

Photographs of a clinic opened in Hempstead, N.Y., by Bill Baird in 1965 at “The Age of Roe” exhibition at Harvard’s Schlesinger Library for the History of Women, in Cambridge, Mass. on Oct. 28, 2022. The photographs show a restoration following a 1979 firebombing. The new exhibition looks at how the 1973 Supreme Court decision reshaped American culture and politics. (Vanessa Leroy/The New York Times).

The classroom of Jerry Walther, a natural resources teacher on the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, Wash., Oct. 27, 2022. Walther trains other teachers about how he teaches climate change, he tells them how he regularly takes his students outside. “Each community has its own climate and culture,” he said. “And that culture is interesting to its students.” (Chona Kasinger/The New York Times).

The choreographer George Balanchine backstage with one of his dancers during New York City Ballet’s Stravinsky Festival in 1972. “Mr. B,” by Jennifer Homans, explores the life of the Russian-born choreographer, as well as the beauty and pains of his art. (Jack Manning/The New York Times).

The studio of Roman and Williams founders Stephen Alesch and Robin Standefer at their home in Montauk, N.Y., Oct. 10, 2022. For two decades, they have designed homes, hotels, restaurants, clubs, galleries, stores, furniture — even birdhouses — bathed in a luxe patina. (Landon Speers/The New York Times).