Photos of the Week: Mud Race, Met Gala, New Pope

The Atlantic

09-05-2025

Artistic swimming in Ontario, a bun-scrambling competition in Hong Kong, the Devils and Congos Festival in Panama, and much more Angela Weiss / AFP / Getty Janelle Monáe arrives for the 2025 Met Gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 5, 2025, in New York City. This year's gala was themed "Tailored for You," aligning with the Costume Institute's exhibition "Superfine: Tailoring Black Style." Dimitar Dilkoff / AFP / Getty Visitors walk down the Bramante Staircase at the Vatican Museums, during a press tour at the Vatican on May 2, 2025. Emanuele Cremaschi / Getty Rows of human skulls and bones are pictured at the ossuary, a side chapel of the church of San Bernardino alle Ossa, whose walls are almost entirely covered in human skulls and bones from the patients of the nearby ancient Ospedale del Brolo, seen on May 3, 2025, in Milan, Italy. Tourists take photos of the illuminated Chaoran Tower on the first day of the May Day holiday in Jinan, Shandong province, China, on May 1, 2025. Displays show Lady Gaga performing at an open concert on Copacabana beach as seen from Leme fort, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on May 3, 2025. Isabel Infantes / Reuters A display of 30,000 ceramic poppies, taken from the artwork Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red , is seen before its opening on May 6 at the Tower of London, commemorating the 80th anniversary of Victory in Europe (V-E) Day, on May 5, 2025. Hamit Yalcin / Anadolu / Getty Flamingos gather in Lake Mogan in the Gölbaşı district of Ankara, Turkey, on May 4, 2025. Ulises Ruiz / AFP / Getty An aerial view of an anglerfish made out of balloons during 'An Aquatic World' balloon parade in Guadalajara, Mexico, on May 4, 2025. Swifty Swine Racing Pigs compete prior to the NASCAR Cup Series Würth 400 at Texas Motor Speedway on May 4, 2025, in Fort Worth, Texas. Guillaume Souvant / AFP / Getty Golden snub-nosed monkeys sit in their enclosure after quarantine during the first presentation at the Beauval Zoopark in Saint-Aignan, France, on May 7, 2025. Matthias Rier's daughter plays with a cow that has just arrived in an alpine pasture after wintering at low altitude on May 3, 2025, in Alpe of Siusi, Castelrotto, Italy. Matthias Rier is the third in lineage of the Rier family; together with his wife and their children, he runs a herd of alpine cows for milk production on the Seiser Alm. Revelers take part in the Devils and Congos Festival in Portobelo, Panama, on May 3, 2025. Mariana Maytorena / ObturadorMX / Getty A man detonates gunpowder from a rifle as part of the May 5 commemoration at Peñón de Los Baños, in Mexico City, Mexico, on May 5, 2025. Ismail Aslandag / Anadolu / Getty Special forces team members perform an evacuation demonstration during Turkey's Teknofest event in Lefkosia, on May 3, 2025. Anindito Mukherjee / Getty Children take shelter under their desk inside a classroom at Vidya Bal Bhawan Sr. Sec. School on May 7, 2025, in New Delhi, India. India's Ministry of Home Affairs ordered nationwide civil-defense mock drills on May 7 across more than 240 districts to test and enhance emergency preparedness in light of rising security concerns after the recent Pahalgam terror attack. An aerial view of the River Wharfe and Bolton Priory on the Bolton Abbey Estate, at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, near Skipton, England, on May 6, 2025 A car and a motorbike navigate a twisty road at Pir Chinasi, a tourist attraction in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, on May 4, 2025. A street musician plays a violin outside the Sant'Angelo castle as the sun sets in Rome, on May 4, 2025. Runners dressed as characters from Star Wars participate in the Star Wars Run event in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on May 4, 2025. People take part in a bun-scrambling competition during the Bun Festival on Cheung Chau island in Hong Kong, China, on May 6, 2025. Firefighters install a temporary chimney, used to communicate the choosing of a new Pope, on the roof of the Sistine Chapel on May 2, 2025, in Vatican City. Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Getty Newly elected Pope Leo XIV, Robert Prevost, addresses the crowd from the main central loggia balcony of St. Peter's Basilica for the first time, after the cardinals ended the conclave, in the Vatican, on May 8, 2025. Prevost is the first pope from the United States, the Vatican announced. A moderate who was close to Pope Francis and spent years as a missionary in Peru, he becomes the Catholic Church's 267th pontiff. The Frecce Tricolori, the Italian Air Force's aerobatic team, flies in formation during an air show on May 4, 2025, in Catania, Italy. Karina Magrupova of Team Kazakhstan competes in the women's solo free final during the World Aquatics Artistic Swimming World Cup 2025 in Markham, Ontario, on May 2, 2025. A humpback whale, dolphins, and sea birds feed on a school of fish off the Channel Islands in California, on May 1, 2025. A competitor takes part in the annual Maldon Mud Race on May 4, 2025, in Maldon, England. Originating in 1973, the mud race consists of a 500-meter dash across the River Blackwater at low tide, often in fancy dress. Alan Taylor is a senior editor at The Atlantic.