Best Photos of the Day

An undated photo provided via Sotheby’s shows the rediscovered Keith Haring mural that was auctioned on Nov. 17, 2022, at Sotheby’s. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of the mural, rediscovered after 30 years, will return to Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, where the mural was originally housed. (via Sotheby’s via The New York Times).

Depictions of the night sky made by patients in a workshop at Springfield University Hospital in London, Oct. 19, 2022. The nonprofit Hospital Rooms has commissioned leading artists to make work for British psychiatric hospitals, turning them into spaces that could rival some museums. (Suzie Howell/The New York Times).

Renowned advertising executive George Lois at his home in New York on April 17, 2008. Lois, Madison Avenue’s best-known 20th-century art director, who put the counterculture of the 1960s and ’70s into postwar advertising and created stunning covers for Esquire magazine that rebuked American racism and involvement in the Vietnam War, died on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022 at his home in Manhattan. He was 91. (Michael Nagle/The New York Times).

Panels of Sonia Delaunay’s entrance archway await assembly from the original Luna Luna carnival in Los Angeles, Oct. 7, 2022. In 1987, the Austrian artist André Heller debuted an avant-garde amusement park. — Its disappearance was a winding tale, but its return is even more bizarre. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times).

In an undated image provided via OMA New York, a rendering of the new Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building opening in May at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The former Albright-Knox Art Gallery, now named the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, will reopen to the public on May 25, 2023, with a vastly renovated and expanded campus designed by the OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu. (via OMA New York via The New York Times).

“Ra, ” a 2018 work by Anselm Kiefer, on a hill overlooking La Ribaute, the artist’s estate in Barjac, France, Sept. 30, 2022. On his vast estate in southern France and in two new U.S. exhibitions, the German-born artist conjures a world that hovers in the penumbra between life and death. (Anselm Kiefer; Julien Mignot/The New York Times).

One of Thomas McKean’s 3-D pieces, made by gluing MetroCards together, on display at Fishs Eddy, a home goods store in New York, Nov. 3, 2022. For more than 20 years, McKean has turned the New York City fare card into art — his supplies may run out as the city upgrades its payment system. (Audrey Melton/The New York Times).

Jefferson Mays in a one-man production of “A Christmas Carol” at the Nederlander Theater in New York, Nov. 6, 2022. Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic that was originally live-captured for streaming. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times).

From left: William Burden, Renee Fleming and Kyle Ketelsen in a rehearsal of "The Hours" at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Nov. 11, 2022. (Dina Litovsky/The New York Times).

Jeremy Pope in Los Angeles, Oct. 16, 2022. As the Tony-nominated actor segues to the big screen in the gay military drama “The Inspection,” he reflects on years of shame and learning to accept himself. (Erik Carter/The New York Times).