Best Photos of the Day

The artist Alina Zamanova, whose work explores themes related to the war, in her studio in Kyiv on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. (Laetitia Vancon/The New York Times)

In an image provided by her firm, the model apartment of an Art Deco office building now converted to condos, on Wall Street in Manhattan, decorated by Elizabeth Graziolo. In the three years since she started Yellow House Architects, Graziolo has developed a busy practice devoted to high-end residential design in a style she calls “clean classicism” — buildings that take traditional forms but eschew excessive ornamentation. (Evan Joseph/Yellow House Architects via The New York Times)

Lauren MacDonald’s “In Pursuit of Color.” Gathering ingredients for textile dyes can be brutal, lethal work, documented by McDonald, who analyzes practices dating from thousands of years for pulverizing flora, fauna, fungi, fossils and fuels into potions for saturated hues. (Handout via The New York Times)

Erick Espinoza, the 32-year-old creative director at the Hamptons design studio founded by Anthony Baratta, in the bedroom of his home in Danbury, Conn. on Aug. 14, 2023. For a growing number of designers, dealers and collectors in their thirties, American antiques are hot; Espinoza’s own home is a kaleidoscopic ode to a style he calls “Pop Art country.” (Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times)

A home built in 1933 and now designated as a historical landmark, on Puget Sound in Seattle’s Ballard neighborhood, on Aug. 3. 2023. New owners found a way to marry a contemporary kitchen extension to the Scandinavian vernacular architecture of the house, built by a Norwegian sea captain as a replica of his childhood home. (Brooke Fitts/The New York Times)

The Forest Lawn Museum, right, and the adjoining Hall of Crucifixion-Resurrection, left, part of the 300-acre Forest Lawn Memorial-Park in Glendale, Calif., June 29, 2023. Forest Lawn’s museum director and resident art historian, James Fishburne, has re-envisioned a storied panorama painting, with a theatrical show and slick animations. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)

In an image provided by the museum Poster House, a poster for Osaka Railways designed by Toyonosuke Kurozumi, circa 1935. Poster House in New York City is hosting a show of commercial Art Deco posters from around the globe. (William W. Crouse and Poster House via New York Times)

Lee Kang-So with a taxidermy chicken in one of his studio buildings in Anseong, South Korea, Aug. 27, 2023. Passing a market in the 1970s, seeing deer bones and hens, he wondered, “Can this be art?” (Jean Chung/The New York Times)

Dancers in M.A.D.D. Rhythms, one of the dance companies in the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project’s 2023 cohort, from left: William Wems, Caleb Jackson and Case Prime rehearse for Ravinia, in Chicago, Aug. 16, 2023. An initiative started in 2019 helps to address funding disparities and offers a vision of Black dance as a form whose categories refuse to be static. (Mustafa Hussain/The New York Times)

In a photo provided by Museum of Romani Culture, Brno shows, Vlasta Danielová, top right, with her parents and some of her siblings. As many as a half million Romani people were killed by the Nazis, according to one estimate. A new database tells the story of that genocide and its impact on individual lives. (Museum of Romani Culture, Brno via The New York Times)