Gallery 625 in the newly reopened European Paintings wing at the Met, which features new skylights and highlights of Spain’s Golden Age, including a portrait by Velázquez of Juan de Pareja, a man of African descent.

Nairy Baghramian in her Berlin studio. “A vertical swimming pool doesn’t exist, but I would like to swim in it,” she said. “There’s no such thing as a horizontal staircase — but I would like to imagine it.”