EditorialThe United Palace Theater in Washington Heights, the venue for the 2023 Tony Awards, seen on May 26, 2023. (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times)
EditorialA rose in front of Blair Simmons’s “Please Take My Baggage,” at the one-night-only event “Why Is Everyone Breaking Up Right Now?,” in Brooklyn, Feb. 14, 2023. (Ali Cherkis/The New York Times)
EditorialMyrlande Constant in front of one her intricate tapestries at Fort Gansevoort gallery in Manhattan, Jan. 12, 2023. (Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times)
EditorialAshley Valentine, co-founder of the national advocacy group?Sick Cells, who cared for her brother, Marqus, pictured above her, before he died from a stroke caused by sickle cell disease, at her parents’ home in Lisle, Ill., Dec. 26, 2022. (Mustafa Hussain/The New York Times)