Best Photos of the Day

Salvador Dali and Gallerist Phyllis Lucas (forefront) at a packed Phyllis Lucas Gallery exhibit circa 1968 in NYC. Roland Auctions NY has announced its new collaboration with the iconic Phyllis Lucas Gallery in NYC, kicking off with The Phyllis Lucas Gallery Collection - Part I on Friday, March 3rd at 11am. Previews will be held on Wednesday, March 1st and Thursday, March 2nd, 10am - 6pm.

The sculptor Thaddeus Mosley surrounded by his sculptures at his studio in Pittsburgh, Jan. 11, 2023. Mosley, who started carving wood in the early 1950s, is enjoying a long-overdue moment in the sun. (Ross Mantle/The New York Times)

Marcela Guerrero, an associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, in the museum’s library, Nov. 3, 2022. In a strong indication it is taking Latino art more seriously, the Whitney has named Guerrero a senior curator, a significant promotion for the museum’s first curator to specialize in work by artists from places like Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico. (Sabrina Santiago/The New York Times)

Theodore Kuchar, the Ukrainian American conductor of the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, at Carnegie Hall in New York, Feb. 14, 2023. Members of the touring Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra of Ukraine have watched the devastation of war from a distance. (Lila Barth/The New York Times)

The Humboldt Forum, a Berlin museum that has begun to repatriate some of the artifacts to Nigeria, Jan. 31, 2023. The Humboldt Forum, which opened in 2021, occupies a reconstruction of the Royal Palace in Berlin. (Andreas Meichsner/The New York Times)

A BB-8 figure on display with other Star Wars items as part of the "Disney100" exhibition at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, Jan. 9, 2023. The Walt Disney Company is opening two exhibitions that will tour the globe until 2028. It comes at a moment when its formidable stature in the culture has shown a few cracks. (Hannah Yoon/The New York Times)

The band Young Fathers, from left, Alloysious Massaquoi, Graham Hastings, known as G, and Kayus Bankole, backstage before their show at Chalk, a club in Brighton, England, Feb. 6, 2023. The Scottish trio has been making political, genre-blending songs for a decade, but on their new album, the group embraces the elation of community. (Jeremie Souteyrat/The New York Times)

Eugene Lee, a set designer, at his home studio in Providence, R.I., March 21, 2014. Lee, who won Tony Awards for “Wicked” and other shows while also overseeing the sets "Saturday Night Life," died on Monday, Feb. 6, 2023, in Providence, R.I. He was 83. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)

In a photo provided by the U.S. Navy, sailors recover the downed Chinese surveillance balloon off the coast of South Carolina on Feb. 5, 2023. Documenting the recovery of a Chinese spy balloon off South Carolina, a Navy photographer produced some spectacular images with surprising art-historical undercurrents. (Tyler Thompson/U.S. Navy via The New York Times)

Karla Ortiz, an illustrator and artist, in her studio in San Francisco on Feb. 7, 2023. Ortiz and two other artists have filed a class-action lawsuit against companies with art-generating services. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)