Best Photos of the Day

La Belle Epoque Auction House in NYC will present a bronze by sculptor Lorenzo Quinn at their August 19th sale. The piece called "Trust" is a much smaller, earlier version of Quinn’s monumental bronze "Hand of God" now on open-air exhibit in Saint-Tropez.

Maria da Graca Xuxa Meneghel, 60, known widely as "Xuxa," at her home with two of her pets in Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 4, 2023. Xuxa was once Brazil’s biggest TV star. Now many are wondering whether a thin, blond, white woman was the right idol for such a diverse country. (Maria Magdalena Arrellaga/The New York Times).

A performance by SWR Experimentalstudio and Ensemble Experimental during the Time Spans Festival at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in New York, Aug. 12, 2023. The festival is a bright spot on the August calendar, with casual yet tightly plotted concerts of modern and contemporary music. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)

Inside the Indian Arts Research Center of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe, N.M., Aug. 7, 2023. It was there that the idea for “Grounded in Clay: The Spirit of Pueblo Pottery,” now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, originated. (Adria Malcolm/The New York Times)

Holly Lauren Riley at the grand opening of The Ripped Bodice, a shop devoted almost entirely to romance novels, in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Aug. 5, 2023. Born and raised in Brooklyn, Riley, a criminal defense lawyer, loves cowboy romances, which allow her to “disconnect from a lot of the pain and the sorrow that you see every day.” (Adrienne Grunwald/The New York Times)

A photo of O’Shae Sibley is surrounded by mourners during a memorial and vigil to honor Sibley, a 28-year-old gay man who was fatally stabbed after a dispute over his vogueing in a parking lot, in New York, Aug. 5, 2023. By vogueing, Sibley was using a gender-crossing idiom that has been appropriated by the cultural mainstream for decades. (David Dee Delgado/The New York Times)

Striking SAG-AFTRA and WGA members picket outside of Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, Calif., Aug. 3, 2023. Thanks to Hollywood’s labor disputes, this year’s Emmy Awards are moving to 2024. (Jenna Schoenefeld/The New York Times)

A mystery piece playfully titled “Withus Oragainstus,” on display at the Gottesman Research Library and Learning Center within the Gilder Center for Science, Innovation and Education at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, Aug. 8, 2023. The piece was left at the museum in 2005 and is believed to be Banksy’s work. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

Sam Lipman-Stern, left, and Patrick J. Pespas, who were telemarketers when they realized the company they worked for was defrauding people, in New Brusnwick, N.J., Aug. 2, 2023. In a rowdy new HBO docu-series, the two former telemarketers take on an industry they say was ripping people off in the name of charity. (Bryan Anselm/The New York Times)

Jeneen Frei Njoontli’s sculpture, “He coats the warp and weft until a field emerges (Orange upright bottle),” 2021, left, and a still from Asinnajaq’s 2015 film “Rock Piece,” at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., Aug. 8, 2023. A frisky group of Indigenous performers, videomakers and sculptors have a presence in the art world they haven’t had before. (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)