Best Photos of the Day

Sara Menegazzo, a gold leaf artisan, demonstrates her craft at the Art of Craftsmanship, a celebration of Venetian master craftspeople hosted by Tod's in Venice, Italy, April 19, 2024. For the Venice Biennale, the Italian leather goods and fashion company assembled 11 Venetian craftsmen — glassblowers, mask makers and other artisans — to interpret their Gommino driving shoe. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

A view of the Arsenale, Venice's historic shipyard, during opening week of the 2024 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

An installation by Precious Okoyomon, integrating living plants with sensors and speakers, in an outdoor space of the Nigerian pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on April 12, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Matteo de Mayda/The New York Times).

A view of the "historical core" of the 60th Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

Yuko Mohri constructs wry and precarious assemblages from living and industrial materials in the Japanese pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

A densely hung central pavilion of Adriano Pedrosa's "Foreigners Everywhere," at the Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy, on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

Paintings by 20th-century artists hang cheek by jowl in the Central Pavilion of the 2024 Venice Biennale in Venice, Italy on Thursday, April 18, 2024. Every art institution now speaks of progress, justice, transformation. What if all those words hide a more old-fashioned aim? (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

A work by Ersan Mondtag paying homage to his father, who died prematurely from the toxic effects of asbestos, at "Thresholds," the massive exhibition at the German Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale on April 18, 2024. The world's longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

The Jean Cocteau exhibition at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, at the Venice Biennale on April 18, 2024. The world's longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).

A work by Yael Bartana at "Thresholds," the massive exhibition at the German Pavilion at the 2024 Venice Biennale on April 18, 2024. The world's longest-running and most extravagant festival of contemporary art opens to the public on Saturday after a preview biathlon of fine art and financial profligacy that has grown more hectic than ever. (Casey Kelbaugh/The New York Times).