Best Photos of the Day

A visitor to the “At Home in New York” section of the exhibition “This is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art and Pop Culture”, at the Museum of the City of New York on April 7, 2023. Occupying the entire third floor of the museum, the exhibition will be on display from May 26, 2023, through July 31, 2024. (James Estrin/The New York Times)

“Common Sky,” a canopy of glass and mirror triangles, at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. on April 16, 2023, covers the museum’s 6,000-square-foot courtyard. With a renowned collection of modern and contemporary art, the Buffalo AKG Art Museum has taken local concerns to heart in a $230 million transformation. (Malik Rainey/The New York Times)

John Quincy Adams Ward’s “The Freedman” (1863). The work prompted the exhibition “Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation,” at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art in Fort Worth. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art via The New York Times)

An undated photo provided by Judith Joy Ross and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne of Ross’s "Untitled, Eurana Park, Weatherly, Pennsylvania", 1982. The image is part of a large retrospective at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, with about 200 of her photographs on display until Aug. 6, 2023, almost all of them portraits. (Judith Joy Ross and Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne via The New York Times)

A photo provided by Chazen Museum of Art/Eric Baillies of the dancers Stacy Smith, left, and Amansu Eason performing a response piece in a gallery as part of the “re:mancipation” exhibition at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Chazen Museum of Art. Choreography is incorporated into the Chazen’s exhibition. (Chazen Museum of Art/Kirstin Pires via The New York Times)

In an image provided by the museum, An ofrenda, or altar, created by Norma Rios-Sierra, part of “Death: Life’s Greatest Mystery” at the Field Museum in Chicago. Across the globe, art museums are tackling the subject of death with results that are surprising, poignant and even comic. (Field Museum, Michelle Kuo via The New York Times)

“Komar and Melamid: A Lesson in History” at Rutgers University’s Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, N.J., March 27, 2023. The Soviet Pop Art pioneers Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, were once so close they presented themselves as a single entity, then fell out for decades. This retrospective brought them back together. (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times).

In an image provided by the artist, a detail of the work “Les Enfants d’Ouranos” by the French artist JR. JR’s photographic installation will illuminate the exterior of the Parrish Art Museum with an image of playful innocence. (Courtesy of the artist and Perrotin via The New York Times)

The sculpture “Dual Meridian” by the artist David Grigg sits between floors on Concourse A of the Denver International Airport on Feb. 24, 2023. This year, a claim gained traction on TikTok that the “new” art installation in the airport legitimizes the flat earth conspiracy theory. The art is almost 30 years old. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times)

A photo provided by the Amon Carter Museum of Art shows two of the portraits from the photographer Richard Avedon’s exhibition “In the American West,” which premiered in 1985 at the museum in Fort Worth, Texas. To honor the centennial of Avedon’s birth, 13 of his portraits from the 1985 exhibition, which took six years to complete and involved travel to 189 towns in 17 states, are back on view at the museum. (Amon Carter Museum of American Art via The New York Times)