Best Photos of the Day

Albert Frey’s Aluminaire House, one of the earliest and edgiest examples of the International Style of modernist architecture in America, being reconstructed on the grounds of the Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Springs, Calif. on Jan. 16, 2024. The Aluminaire House drew crowds, and ridicule, in 1931. After several moves and a brush with demolition, it has found a home in Southern California. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times).

Azuma Tokuyo, center, as an innkeeper’s daughter in “Boléro — The Legend of Anchin and Kiyohime,” at Japan Society in New York, Jan. 24, 2024. At Japan Society, “Nihon Buyo in the 21st Century,” a rare showcase in New York of this style of Japanese dance, forges a link between the past and present. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times).

The “Artland” show at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Jan. 24, 2024. “Artland,” an ever-expanding fantasy world designed and molded by children, inaugurates the newly renovated 9,500-square-foot wing. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times).

In a photo provided by Romain Ricard shows, inside Maxim are bronze elements, velvet upholstery, stained glass and other details characteristic of the Art Nouveau style that became popular after Maxim’s first opened in the late 1800s. That’s the hope at the restaurant Maxim’s in Paris, which recently started a new chapter after 130 years in business. (Romain Ricard via The New York Times).

Daniel Paiser, a ghostwriter, in New York on Jan. 22, 2024, who has collaborated on books with Serena Williams, John Kasich and Whoopi Goldberg, among others. Practitioners of the solitary and highly secretive profession got together to compare notes and celebrate their work. (Sinna Nasseri/The New York Times).

A full house on Saturday night for a Chinese-produced film, at a theater in Beijing on Jan. 13, 2024. Hollywood has come to rely on China for growth and profitability, but audiences there are turning away; no American films ranked among the 10 highest grossing in China last year. (Gilles Sabrie/The New York Times).

A bathroom, clad in 18th-century blue-and-white tiles, in the Palacio de Monterrey in Salamanca, Spain, on Jan. 5, 2024. The storied Alba family has thrown open the doors of its art-filled homes in Madrid, Seville and Salamanca, inviting visitors inside for a taste of a bygone era. (Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times).

Phillida Reid gallery in London’s Bloomsbury neighborhood on Sunday, Jan 21, 2024. After a four-year break, the collaborative exhibition Condo is again luring international dealers to the city, where contemporary art is buoyant, against the odds. (Jeremie Souteyrat/The New York Times).

An image from Emmie America shows from left: Tré Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of Green Day. The band’s 14th studio album, “Saviors,” trumpets its connections to the band’s past. (Emmie America via The New York Times).

An image from Mary Miss, via The Cultural Landscape Foundation shows an overview of Mary Miss’s installation in 1996. A multi-level path system and a series of structures comprising wood, steel, cement, and granite provide visitors with several ways to explore the site. (Mary Miss, via The Cultural Landscape Foundation via The New York Times).