Best Photos of the Day

During Asia Week New York 2017, Erik Thomsen Gallery is presenting three exhibitions of Japanese art, one of which, Post-War Japanese Calligraphy, features a group of avant-garde masters. In this image: Yuichi Inoue (1916-1985), En (Cycle/Eternity), 1977. Ink on Japanese paper. H 56-1/2 x W 74-1/2 in (144 x 189 cm)

This file photo taken on October 17, 2012 shows a shoe glued to a statue of late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad, at the museum of Maaret al-Numan, in the northwestern Idlib province, an area under the control of rebel fighters. Over 312,000 people have died and millions have been displaced since the start of the revolt against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad six years ago. BULENT KILIC / AFP

This photo shows the snow sculpture shaped of the Olympic rings at the town of Hoenggye, near the venue for the opening and closing ceremonies for the upcoming Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympic Games, in Pyeongchang. JUNG Yeon-Je / AFP

In this photograph taken on March 09, 2017, Thai sculpture artists work on figures that will serve as a mold where images just like it will be made to decorate the spectacular 50 metre (165 foot) wooden pyre that is set to provide a final stage for Bhumibol, who died last October of last year. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

A statue of Thomas Jefferson is seen in the Jefferson Memorial on the National Mall on March 13, 2017 in Washington, DC. Brendan Smialowski / AFP

Egyptian workers excavate the statue, recently discovered by a team of German-Egyptian archeologists, in Cairo's Mattarya district on March 13, 2017. Statues of the kings and queens of the nineteenth dynasty (1295 - 1185 BC) were unearthed in the vicinity of the Temple of Ramses II in what was the old Pharonic city. KHALED DESOUKI / AFP

Blowing snow falls on a statue outside of Trinity Church on Wall Street in New York March 10, 2017 . Snow and frigid temperatures are expected in New-York city on the weekend. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP

A member of the Iraqi forces inspects the damage inside the destroyed museum of Mosul on March 13, 2017 after they recaptured it from Islamic State (IS) group fighters the previous week. Iraqi forces seized the museum from IS on March 7 as they pushed into west Mosul as part of a vast offensive to oust the jihadists from the northern city. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE / AFP

Trisha Brown Dance Company performs as CAP UCLA teams with The Broad, J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, and Hauser Wirth & Schimmel to present Trisha Brown: In Plain Site Los Angeles on March 12, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. Rachel Murray/Getty Images for CAP UCLA/AFP

A man takes photos of the Eiffel tower on the Parvis des Droits de l'Homme square in Paris on March 13, 2017. LUDOVIC MARIN / AFP