EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialAlicia Graf Mack, center, the dean and director of Juilliard’s dance division, with Griffin Massey, left, and Rachel Lockhart after their final ballet class together at the school in New York, May 15, 2023. (Elliott Jerome Brown Jr./The New York Times)
EditorialBill Graf, a teacher at the National Art League, outside the new district office of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) in New York, Jan. 26, 2023. (Dave Sanders/The New York Times)
EditorialBeethoven’s fortepiano, made by Conrad Graf in Vienna in the 1820’s, at Beethoven-Haus in Bonn, Germany on Feb. 6, 2020. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)