Best Photos of the Day

During Asia Week New York (March 16-24) Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd. presents An assembly of Mughal Emperors and Rajput rulers visiting two holy men, from Mewar, circa 1695-1705. Photo: Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, Ltd.

Unfinished gardens and parks outside the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which were conceived by the landscape architect Mia Lehrer, in Los Angeles on Jan. 31, 2023. George Lucas’s billion-dollar museum, which has faced delays, is finally coming into focus in Los Angeles. Officials say it should be fully operational by 2025. (Adam Amengual/The New York Times)

The conductor Mary-Mitchell Campbell, the new music director of New York City Center’s Encores!, leads the orchestra through a rehearsal of Jerry Herman’s 1969 show “Dear World,” in New York, March 10, 2023. Her break conducting musicals came when she worked on a benefit concert of “Sweet Charity” with its composer, Cy Coleman. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

Installers hang “Untitled (Boxer),” a work said to be by Jean-Michel Basquiat for the exhibit “Heroes & Monsters,” at the Orlando Museum of Art in Orlando, Fla., Feb. 2, 2022. The Art Crime Unit has received more public attention after its Orlando raid, in which agents seized works the museum had said were created by Jean-Michel Basquiat, a popular artist whose work routinely fetches millions of dollars at auction. (Melanie Metz/The New York Times)

Ke Huy Quan accepts the award for best actor in a supporting role for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” at the 95th Academy Awards at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, March 12, 2023. (Todd Heisler/The New York Times)

A crow puppet is carried by members of the feminist group Rosies during a demonstration against the government’s pension reform, in Paris, March 7, 2023. The country has a long history of demonstrations, which often feature overtly theatrical elements. (Elliott Verdier/The New York Times)

A photograph published in “Uncrating the Japanese House: Junzo Yoshimura, Antonin and Noémi Raymond and George Nakashima,” which details how in the 1950s, Japanese officials exported a teahouse for display in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art. (August Editions/Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia via The New York Times)

Frederic Church's “Mountain Landscape”, on display in the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus, in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the collection of its Brauer Museum of Art to raise $10 million for the renovation of two freshman dormitories, which it sees as key to securing its future. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)

Questions are asked at Bridge Live Arts’s retreat in Northern California, Jan. 21, 2023. Several nonprofit dance groups have embraced collective leadership. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)

“The Smallest Sea With the Largest Heart,” by Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, on display above a motel swimming pool at the Desert X biennial in Palm Springs, Calif., March 2, 2023. Almost all the artworks in the Coachella Valley biennial are socially engaged and site-specific. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)