Best Photos of the Day

In an undated image provided via Christie's, Christie's control room in New York. As Sotheby's and Christie's prepare for the start this week of the major New York auctions of Impressionist, modern and contemporary art, teams of tech experts, producers and show directors are readying their salesrooms. (via Christie's via The New York Times)

Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art, which currently includes an exhibition curated by ChatGPT, in Durham, N.C., Oct. 23, 2023. The city's downtown, long a transitional neighborhood with pockets of progress, is now brimming with new restaurants, boutiques, bars and breweries. Nearby hotspots are emerging, in East Durham and the Old Five Points neighborhood. (Kate Medley/The New York Times)

Work by Emmanuel Unaji, left, and Lindsey Jean Mclean at the Euston Tower exhibition in London on Oct. 11, 2023. A London-based nonprofit takes empty commercial spaces and offers them as studios. Artists get a free place to work, and landlords save some money, too. (Jane Stockdale/The New York Times)

In an undated image provided by Starward Industries/11 Bit Studios, a screenshot from the upcoming video game "The Invincible," based on Stanislaw Lem's 1964 science fiction novel. Video games rarely adapt books, but a Polish studio is embracing a science fiction story by Stanislaw Lem. (Starward Industries/11 Bit Studios via The New York Times)

Some works of Michael Whelan's, who has made a career painting aliens, dragons, robots and other fantastical creatures for book covers, at his home in Danbury, Conn., Sept. 24, 2023. Users working with artificial intelligence art generators have created hundreds of images in Whelan's style that were slightly altered knockoffs of his work, he says, forcing him to devote considerable time and resources to getting the images removed from the web. (Frances F. Denny/The New York Times)

Sean Young, left, and her castmates during a rehearsal of "Ode to the Wasp Woman," at the Actors Temple Theater in New York, Oct. 19, 2023. Young said her character in the play has "some damage to deal with. But it is also an opportunity to purge whatever's there of your own." (Ye Fan/The New York Times)

From left, Ray Anthony Thomas, Lucy DeVito and Danny DeVito in Theresa Rebeck's Broadway comedy "I Need That," at the American Airlines Theater in Manhattan, Oct. 12, 2023. DeVito returns to Broadway in a Theresa Rebeck comedy about a lonely old man lost in a houseful of junk. (OK McCausland/The New York Times)

The French director Justine Triet in New York, Oct. 10, 2023. Triet's movies explore the anxieties of women who work and play hard — her latest, "Anatomy of a Fall," won the Palme d'Or. (George Etheredge/The New York Times)

Michael, who now lives in Australia, outside Roddy's Bar as he visits family in the western Irish town of Glenties, Oct. 19, 2023. Irish Repertory Theater's season-long survey of Brian Friel's work prompted a reporter to seek out the Irish town that inspired the imaginary site of so many of his plays. (Finbarr O'Reilly/The New York Times)

A wall along the entrance ramp presents documentation of Michael Richards' installations from the early 1990s dealing with blackface and the Middle Passage, on display in his retrospective "Are You Down?" at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, Oct. 25, 2023. Richards, who died on 9/11, expanded the political possibilities of art — his sculptures embodied suffering and hope in a way that now seems prescient. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)