Best Photos of the Day

Ralph Augsburger, a conservator at ArtCare Conservation, with the long-missing Panel 28 from Jacob Lawrence's series "Struggle: From the History of the American People," in New York on Feb. 3, 2021. The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Amr Alfiky/The New York Times

Members of Carol Bove's team shape the steel beams of her sculptures, intended for the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the help of a hydraulic press at her studio in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Nov. 10, 2020. The American sculptor is the second artist invited to occupy the sculptural niches on Fifth Avenue. George Etheredge/The New York Times

The installation of the Frick Collection in the Breuer building in New York, Feb. 5, 2021. No barriers. No texts. No heavy gold fabric. At the museum’s two-year sublet of the Breuer building on Madison Avenue, it’s just you and the masters. Gus Powell/The New York Times

A preview of KAWS exhibition at Brooklyn Museum in New York, Feb. 23, 2021. The Simpsons, Snoopy and the Smurfs are all here in a survey of the artist Brian Donnelly’s 25-year career. Kirsten Luce/The New York Times.

Art at the Louvre Conservation Center, in Lievin, France, Feb. 9, 2021. The museum hopes the facility will become one of Europe’s largest art research centers. Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times

Nari Ward’s installation “Peace Keeper” (1995; recreated 2020), a hearse encased in tar and feathers, in “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America” at the New Museum in New York, Feb. 12, 2021. The urgent show — both a monument to a resilient culture and a memorial to what’s lost through racism — will surely rank as one of the most important of 2021. Gioncarlo Valentine/The New York Times

People visit China's lunar exploration program Chang'e-5 Mission during an exhibition at the National Museum of China in Beijing on March 4, 2021. WANG Zhao / AFP

In this picture taken on February 8, 2021, tsunami survivor Nayuta Ganbe shows the name of his friend who was killed during Japan's devastating 2011 tsunami, written on a memorial monument at the Disaster Recovery Memorial Museum in Higashimatsushima, Miyagi prefecture. The children of the tsunami lost family, homes, schools and entire communities, and for some the experience sparked a drive to work in disaster awareness, or help children like them who have lived with tragedy. Behrouz MEHRI / AFP

This picture taken on March 3, 2021, shows a breastplate and a ceremonial helmet during their official restitutions by the French Central Directorate of the Judicial Police (DCPJ) to the Louvre Museum, in Paris. A breastplate and a ceremonial helmet, two "exceptional" objects from the Italian Renaissance, were handed over by the police to the Louvre museum after being found in Bordeaux during an auction linked to an estate. These objects, which belonged to the collection of the Baroness de Rothschild, had been donated to the Louvre in 1922 and stolen in 1983. Estimates say they are worth around 500,000 euros. Thomas SAMSON / AFP

A file picture released as a handout by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) on March 27, 2016, shows destruction in the museum of the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra after government troops recaptured the city from Islamic State (IS) fighters the previous day. SANA / AFP