Best Photos of the Day

The headband worn by Ralph Macchio in “The Karate Kid Part II” at the Martial Arts History Museum in Burbank, Calif., Dec. 23, 2022. Shrines to skateboarding, bunnies, neon, aviation and citrus trees dot the sprawling region, highlighting its diversity. (Philip Cheung/The New York Times)

An undated photo by Iwan Baan of the SongEun Art Space at the new headquarters of ST International, designed by Herzog & de Meuron, in Seoul. New museums are opening, foreign galleries are alighting and corporations are plowing money into Seoul’s ascending contemporary art scene. (Iwan Baan via The New York Times)

Art by children from Ukraine, including images of battle drawn by children as young as 9, at an exhibition at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art in Chicago on Dec. 20, 2022. An artist from Lviv has brought works by young people affected by the Russian invasion to a museum in Chicago’s Ukrainian enclave. (Lyndon French/The New York Times)

An undated image provided by Takaaki Matsumoto of “Bunny Bangle” by the artist Daniel Brush, whose jewelry was often intended not so much to be worn as to be cherished. Brush, who worked in jewelry, sculpture and other genres, creating one-of-a-kind pieces and, for the most part, spurning the mainstream art world, died on Nov. 26, 2022 in Manhattan. He was 75. (Takaaki Matsumoto via The New York Times)

A nude of the writer Victor Hugo by Auguste Rodin, at the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology in Besançon, France on Dec. 7, 2022. The 19th-century author of “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” and “Les Misérables” was born in this city close to the Swiss border. (Andrea Mantovani/The New York Times)

Tate Britain’s The Procession, by Guyanese-British artist Hew Locke, in London, Dec. 13, 2022. This itinerary — which traverses an 1800s wine bar loved by a new generation, a night out in South London’s Caribbean heart, centuries of British art under one roof and riverside strolls — is here to help you unlock some of the city’s sprawling, youthful and diverse nature. (Tom Jamieson/The New York Times)

An undated photo provided by Jack Whitten Estate; Photo by Bill Jacobson/Dia Art Foundation shows an installation view of Jack Whitten’s “Greek Alphabet” series at Dia:Beacon in Beacon, N.Y. The painter’s “Greek Alphabet” series was a turning point in his career. — A new show provides the first chance to see the richness of his experimentation. (Jack Whitten Estate; Photo by Bill Jacobson/Dia Art Foundation via The New York Times)

From left, Lita Albuquerque with her daughters, Isabelle and Jasmine, in Isabelle’s studio in Los Angeles, Dec. 19, 2022. All three artists are interested in rituals embodying female power. (Magdalena Wosinska/The New York Times)

A worker sweeps the grounds of a museum on the outskirts of Chennai, India on Dec. 17, 2022. “The great mass of Indians are awakening to the fact that they don’t need the ideology of the West and that we can set our own path,” one retired businessman in the city said. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)

In front of the Museum of the History of Airborne Troops, in Ryazan, Russia, Dec. 18, 2022. Ryazan, not far from Moscow, regularly sends young men off to fight, and die, in the war in Ukraine, but there is no surge of outrage against Russian leaders. (Nanna Heitmann/The New York Times)