Best Photos of the Day

The Perspective Gallery, Evanston, IL is presenting “Through A New Lens”, an exhibition of photographs by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers. The exhibition, curated by museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. In this image: Gina Costa and Stephen Murphy.

In a photo from Benedict J. Fernandez, via Museum of the City of New York, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. at the center of a crowd of supporters following a march from Central Park to the United Nations in New York, April 15, 1967. From in-person and virtual performances to exhibitions and tours, the city offers plenty of options for honoring the civil rights leader this year. Benedict J. Fernandez, via Museum of the City of New York via The New York Times.

An undated photo provided by the Rubin Museum of Art of a 14th-century carving of a garland-bearing apsara, or spirit, that was originally part of an ornamental window in a Kathmandu monastery. The Rubin Museum of Art announced on Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, that it would return two sculptures to Nepal after researchers working for the museum concluded that smugglers had stolen the carved wooden artifacts from religious sites. Rubin Museum of Art via The New York Times.

The “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds” exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles on Dec. 8, 2021. An exhibition at a Jewish cultural center has plenty of artifacts to delight Trekkies — but it also notes the Jewish origins of the Vulcan salute. Alex Welsh/The New York Times.

In an image provided by the Australian Museum, Matthew McCurry, a paleontology curator, at an excavation site at McGraths Flat. Fossil finds show that Australia’s Central Tablelands, today a land of grasses and spindly trees, was a lush rainforest some 15 million years ago. Salty Dingo/Australian Museum via The New York Times.

From left, a pair of artworks in the Greek and Roman Galleries, a marble statue of a kouros; Greek, ca. 590–580 B.C., and “Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi),” 19th century, by a Kongo artist, Democratic Republic of Congo, on display in “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dec. 28, 2021. Holdings from Ancient Egypt and sub-Saharan Africa come together in a masterpiece show — now the Met should make clear how the wondrous works got here. Seth Caplan/The New York Times.

A video installation about sharks at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Dec. 10, 2021. The holidays are over but the unmerry part of the winter season doesn’t have to be a drag. An Rong Xu/The New York Times.

“Superstition and the Enchanted Garden” features dresses at center by Maria Grazia Chiuri, Dior's creative director, in the central atrium at the Brooklyn Museum in New York, Sept. 9, 2021. The holidays are over but the unmerry part of the winter season doesn’t have to be a drag. Mohamed Sadek/The New York Times.

A provided image shows the installation “The Hare with Amber Eyes,” at the Jewish Museum in New York. Lovers of Edmund de Waal’s book can get close to that netsuke in a compelling show of objects that endured across a century of violence, discrimination and dispossession. Iwan Baan via The New York Times.

Visitors show their vaccine cards before entering the Natural History Museum in New York on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. As coronavirus cases — and breakthrough infections — surge in the city because of the Omicron variant, some employers said a sweeping new vaccine mandate was the least of their concerns. Gabby Jones/The New York Times.