Best Photos of the Day

Gina Lollobrigida in New York on Nov. 10, 2010. Lollobrigida, the Italian movie actress who became one of the post-World War II era’s first major European sex symbols, has died. She was 95. Her death was confirmed on social media by Gennaro Sangiuliano, Italy’s culture minister, on Monday, Jan. 16, 2023. (Keith Bedford/The New York Times.

Dr. Etienne-Emile Baulieu, the inventor of the abortion pill RU-486, in his office in Paris with documents explaining how the pill works, which he put this way, “RU-486’s action is like jamming a radio signal,” Oct. 11, 2022. Baulieu, the scientist who came up with an idea for an “unpregnancy pill” decades ago, has led an eventful life, from his teenage days in the French Resistance to his friendships with famous artists. (Julie Glassberg/The New York Times)

In an undated image provided by Knoll Textiles, a fabric called Vert from Nick Cave’s collaboration with KnollTextiles. The politically engaged artist, whose work is now on display at the Guggenheim Museum, has a new line of fabrics. (Knoll Textiles via The New York Times)

The saxophonist Billy Harper in New York, Jan. 10, 2023. Harper said his mission as he turns 80 hasn’t changed: “I just want to be a pure musician.” (Scott Rossi/The New York Times)

One of the few remaining sculptures at the Kherson Regional Art Museum, that curators said Russian forces spent several days looting in 2021, in Kherson, Ukraine, November, 22, 2022. Invading Russian forces have looted tens of thousands of artworks and antiquities, everything from Scythian gold to avant-garde oil paintings — experts say it’s the biggest art heist since the Nazis in World War II. (Finbarr O’Reilly/The New York Times)

A woman looks at art at the Steamboat Art Museum in Steamboat Springs, Colo., December 2022. Winter sports enthusiasts flock to this northwestern Colorado resort town in the Yampa Valley, a spot that is typically blessed with an abundant blanketing of low-moisture snow. (Andrew Miller/The New York Times)

A detail of William Christenberry’s “Klan Tableau” installation at Pace Gallery in New York on Jan. 10, 2023. Inspired by the pioneering photographer Christenberry, RaMell Ross moved to the Deep South and found fertile terrain. — Now Pace sheds light on their distinct visions of a place. (Ike Edeani/The New York Times)

Inaugural installation of Adrián Villar Rojas’s “The End of Imagination” from 2022 in the Tank at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, in Sydney, Australia on Dec. 19, 2022. An extension to the Art Gallery of New South Wales brings 21st-century design to a city that has often had a love-hate relationship with future-forward art. (Petrina Tinslay/The New York Times)

Skaters at the state-of-the-art skatepark built for a one-off competition last summer but left for Romans to enjoy, near the Colosseum in Rome, Dec. 30, 2022. The ancient city’s leaders hope the recreation area, which they say has the best view in the world, will lure more visitors from abroad, but the park has already impressed the talent at home. (Stephanie Gengotti/The New York Times)

Jungmin Cho, director of White Noise, a basement gallery in Seoul, South Korea, Dec. 20, 2022. New museums are opening, foreign galleries are alighting and corporations are plowing money into Seoul’s ascending contemporary art scene. (Jun Michael Park/The New York Times)