Best Photos of the Day

Sandra Mujinga’s “Spectral Keepers,” 2020, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Oct. 24, 2023. In “Going Dark” at the Guggenheim, 28 artists explore urgent questions around what it means to be seen, and to see each other. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)

The cloisters at the entrance to the Hunterian Museum, which is crammed to rafters with historical curios, and is Scotland’s oldest public museum, in Glasgow, Scotland, Oct. 11, 2023. The country’s largest city, which crackles with character and cultural hotspots that have sprung up in outlying neighborhoods, is a hub of grass-roots energy where art shows, plant sales and film screenings pop up in tenement flats, railway waiting rooms and disused buildings. (Robert Ormerod/The New York Times)

Leicester Square in London’s West End on Wednesday night, Oct. 25, 2023. British actors have spoken out about soaring ticket costs, noting that the prohibitive expense is limiting theater’s reach. (Jane Stockdale/The New York Times)

Details from some of the drawings on the walls of the stanza segreta, or secret room, in the Medici Chapels Museum in Florence, Italy, on Oct. 23, 2023. Some scholars have suggested that Michelangelo could have drawn the sketches of a falling man that resemble the central figure of his “The Fall of Phaeton.” (Clara Vannucci/The New York Times)

Françoise Schein’s 90-by-12-foot stylized replica of a subway map embedded in a sidewalk in SoHo, Oct. 1, 2023. There’s a variety of art hidden in plain sight in New York. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

John Turturro in the New Group production of “Sabbath’s Theater,” at the Pershing Square Signature Center in New York, Oct. 8, 2023. For their adaptation of “Sabbath’s Theater,” John Turturro and Ariel Levy sought to preserve “the nasty side of existence” evoked in the book. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)

Metropolitan Epiphanius, Primate of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, leads the Christmas liturgy service at the Holy Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra, in Kyiv on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023. The U.S. State Department’s Global Engagement Center has disclosed a Russian disinformation campaign to spread false claims that the West was looting religious relics and art from here (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)

Robert Irwin, a California installation artist, during an interview in New York on May 20, 2013. Robert Irwin, a Southern California artist associated with the Light and Space movement of the 1960s, who early on stopped making paintings in favor of creating ephemeral and sometimes intangible art environments, died on Wednesday in the La Jolla section of San Diego. He was 95. (Chester Higgins Jr/The New York Times).

A pavilion features an art installation representing the issue of sexual abuse of girls, during Durga Puja, the Bengal region’s biggest religious festival, in Kolkata, India, Oct. 23, 2023. Many of the festival pavilions represent socially and politically progressive ideas. (Atul Loke/The New York Times)

Jasmine Batchelor, left, and Keilly McQuail in Renae Simone Jarrett’s new play, “Daphne,” at LCT3’s Claire Tow Theater in New York, Oct. 6, 2023. The playwright makes her professional stage debut with a surreal reworking of a Greek myth about a river nymph. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)