Best Photos of the Day

Prince Albert of Monaco with Baroness Gabriele Langer von Langendorff, wearing some of her famous emeralds in the early 2000's. Known for her jewelry, many of the pieces will be auctioned along with other items in her collection at Roland Auctions NY on May 4th.

An undated historical photo provided by London Tunnels, a new venture that owns the Kingsway Exchange tunnels, which sprawl beneath the city Underground’s Central Line. The new owner wants to invest about $275 million in the semi-secret tunnels, built but never completed for use as bomb shelters, to restore them and add technology for art installations and other attractions. (London Tunnels via The New York Times)

Four works by Eric Manuel Santoscoy-Mckillip at the El Paso Museum of Art in this year’s Border Biennial, in El Paso, Texas, March 26, 2024. The collaborative exhibition is organized by two museums on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border: The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) and the Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ). (Justin Hamel/The New York Times)

An undated photo courtesy of David Heald/Grey Art Museum, New York University that shows Japanese American artist Shinkichi Tajiri’s sculpture “Wounded Knee” on display for “Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946-1962” at the Grey Art Museum, NYU. The show explores the fervid postwar scene in Paris, where Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell and others learned lessons America couldn’t teach them. (David Heald/Grey Art Museum, New York University via The New York Times).

Tremaine Emory at the opening party for his Denim Tears store in New York, April 14, 2024. Denim Tears, which began in 2019 as a fashion-art hybrid project, is at the forefront of a handful of rising post-Supreme streetwear concerns — Awake NY, Barriers and Born X Raised among them — not owned and operated by white people. (Amir Hamja/The New York Times)

Taking Aim at Bullets.CAPTION: The artist Maurizio Cattelan at the Gagosian gallery in New York with his new work, “Sunday,” on April 23, 2024. One of today’s foremost artists, with a reputation that pervades well beyond the art world, Cattelan, 63, has a new bullet-riddled exhibition in New York that is bound to raise even more questions — and some eyebrows. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)

Jessica Lange, center, as the titular mother in “Mother Play,” with Celia Keenan-Bolger, left, and Jim Parsons playing her children, at the Hayes Theater in New York, April 17, 2024. Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch in Paula Vogel’s latest family drama. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

From left: Steve Carell, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose in “Uncle Vanya” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater in New York, April 2, 2024. Sleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

Cole Escola, left, as Mary Todd Lincoln and Conrad Ricamora as Abraham Lincoln in the play “Oh, Mary!” at the Lucille Lortel Theater in New York, Feb. 22, 2024. Cole Escola’s madcap comedy about the former first lady will begin performances in June. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

J’Nai Bridges, left, and Julia Bullock in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of “El Niño,” directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, in New York, April 17, 2024. The opera-oratorio, an alternate Nativity story, featured a flurry of Met debuts, including the director Lileana Blain-Cruz and the conductor Marin Alsop. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)