Best Photos of the Day

Scholten Japanese Art participated in Contemporary Art Week 2017 with The Body Illustrated: Woodblock Prints, Paintings & Drawings by Paul Binnie. On Saturday May 6, the gallery held a woodblock printing demonstration by Paul Binnie. The exhibition remains on view by appointment through Saturday, July 15th.

The Broad, a contemporary art museum, is lit up in the colors of Los Angeles sunsets to support the bid to host the 2024 Olympic games as the International Olympic Committee's Evaluation Commission arrived for three days of meetings and visits to potential venues May 9, 2017, in Los Angeles, California. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images/AFP

View of the cupola taken from the roof as work continues on the Humboldt Forum, housed in the Berlin palace on May 9, 2017. The large scale museum project and new building, named after Alexander von Humboldt, aims to be a world centre for culture, and is expected to be completed in 2019. John MACDOUGALL / AFP

Two girls attend festivities as Latvia's large Russian minority gathers at the Victory Monument to mark 72 years since the end of World War II and to commemorate the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany in Riga, Latvia on May 9, 2017. Known as Victory Day to Russians, May 9 remains a divisive date in the Baltic state. A quarter of the two million population, ethnic Russians see it as a celebration of the 1945 Nazi surrender to the Red Army in Berlin, but most ethnic Latvians see it as the start of a harsh 50-year Soviet occupation. Ilmars ZNOTINS / afp

An Indian child dives into the waters of a baoli or a step-well at Nizamuddin Dargah in New Delhi on April 30, 2017. SAJJAD HUSSAIN / AFP

Kyrgyz honour guard soldiers lay a wreath at the Eternal Flame monument during Victory Day celebrations in Bishkek on May 9, 2017. Kyrgyzstan and other ex-Soviet republics mark the 72nd anniversary of the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two. Vyacheslav OSELEDKO / AFP

Men holding portraits of late Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin gather at the Victory Monument to celebrate the 72nd anniversary of Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany in Minsk on May 9, 2017. MAXIM MALINOVSKY / AFP

A follower of Bhuddism uses an umbrella during light rain as he and others walk around the giant statue of Lord Bhudda at the Phutthamonthon in Nakhon Pathom near Bangkok to celebrate Vesak day, the holiday that marks the birth of Gautama Buddha, the father of Buddhism, on May 10, 2017. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

French President Francois Hollande looks on after placing a wreath at the statue of French General and former President Charles de Gaulle during a ceremony marking the 72nd anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany during World War II on May 8, 2017 in Paris. JULIEN DE ROSA / POOL / AFP

Spanish fashion designer and founder of the eponymous high-end shoe brand Manolo Blahnik is pictured during the exhibition "The Art of Shoes" displaying his artworks at the Hermitage State museum in Saint Petersburg on May 10, 2017. About 200 shoes created by Manolo Blahnik over a period of 45 years as a stylist will be on display. OLGA MALTSEVA / AFP