Best Photos of the Day

The first 50 lots in Roland Auction's February 20th Modern, Post-War & Contemporary Auction are featured pieces from the collection of notorious New York Art Dealer Ezra Chowaiki, who was convicted of wire fraud in 2018 and served 18 months in prison, including this Edwina Sandys: Cow Parade 2000 - Sculpture, A colorful book-covered painted fiberglass cow sculpture. Created for Cow Parade 2000, the world's largest public art event, by Winston Churchill's granddaughter, Edwina Sandys (English, b. 1938). [58" H x 90" W x 24" D]. Estimate $6,000-$8,000.

A statue of John Marshall is dusted with snow outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Feb. 13, 2024. A nor’easter dumping heavy snow on the country’s most populated region is disrupting daily life from Philadelphia to Boston and beyond. (Rachel Wisniewski/The New York Times).

Kali Malone in Paris in January 2024. The 29-year-old musician grew up in Colorado and ended up in Sweden, where she fell in love with the organ — her latest album, "All Life Long," is out now. (Sam Hellmann/The New York Times).

Mona Pirnot uses a computer in "I Love You So Much I Could Die" at the New York Theatre Workshop in New York, Feb. 6, 2024. The computer’s voice is male, robotic and unemotional; its cadence, and the length of pauses, varies based on the punctuated text. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

Usher performs during the Apple Music Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. (Bridget Bennett/The New York Times).

Bruno Isakovic, left, and Mia Zalukar in "Kill B," as part of the Queer New York International Arts Festival at NYU Skirball in New York, Feb. 8, 2024. In this work, inspired by Quentin Tarantino’s "Kill Bill" films, Croatian performers address the fraught director-actress relationship at its core. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times).

Some of the structures featured at the Art Shanty Projects on frozen Lake Harriet in Minneapolis on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2024. The Art Shanty Projects, in which intrepid Minnesota artists in insulated jumpsuits and ice cleats recreate traditional ice fishing huts in their own eccentric style, was closed days later due to rising temperatures. (Jenn Ackerman/The New York Times).

An installation devoted to the collectors Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys featuring a Yamaha CP-70 piano she used in her video and BMX bicycles at the Brooklyn Museum in New York on Feb. 6, 2024. The Brooklyn Museum exhibits art works collected by the musical superstars — and makes a show of the collectors, too. (Rebecca Smeyne/The New York Times).

Todd A. Kessler, the creator of the Apple TV+ show "The New Look," with Juliette Binoche, who plays Coco Chanel in the series, at the Hotel Regina Louvre in Paris, where several scenes were shot, Jan. 22, 2024. Kessler said it was essential for the show to be shot on location, "on the same streets that Christian Dior and Coco Chanel walked and lived, to be in the same cafes and hotels that the Nazis occupied." (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times).

Joan Lader, a vocal therapist and vocal coach, plays piano at her studio in New York, Dec. 29, 2023. "She saved my career," Patti LuPone said of the indispensable vocal therapist and coach whose clients include Madonna and Billy Porter. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times).