Best Photos of the Day

Attentiveness to Nature: New Works by Jim Schantz opens on October 17 at Pucker Gallery, Boston. For Jim Schantz, moments of change are moments of celebration. Our forests, waters, and skies shift and renew in ways that we may take for granted, or simply fail to remember. Sunrises melt into sunsets; sunsets swell into sunrises. Within these transitions, at their peak, is when Jim paints many of his landscapes, invoking the dazzling allure of nature’s complex transformations all within a single painted moment. An online WebinART with the artist will be held on October 17 at 1PM EST

A picture taken on October 8, 2020 in Sion shows the hand of Pierre Yves Nicod, curator at the archaeological department of the history museum of Canton of Valais holding a pendant from the 17th century found in a glacier in the Southern Swiss Canton of Valais. While archaeologists lament the devastating toll of climate change, many acknowledge that it has created "an opportunity" to dramatically expand understanding of mountain life millennia ago. Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP

This picture taken on October 16, 2020, in Paris shows the presentation of late French actress Jeanne Moreau Collection before online auctions at the Artcurial auction house. ALAIN JOCARD / AFP

A demonstrator sprays in red the General Baquedano monument during a protest against Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government at Plaza Italia square, in Santiago on October 16, 2020. Martin BERNETTI / AFP

Lebanese activists erect a metalic monument on October 16, 2020, with 'October 17' written on it in Arabic, a day ahead of the one year anniversary of the beginning of a nationwide anti-government protest movement, in front of the devastated port of the capital Beirut where a massive explosion took place more than two months ago. JOSEPH EID / AFP

Damage is seen inside Yemen's Seiyun Palace, one of the world's largest mud-brick structures, on October 15, 2020 in the city of Seiyun in central Hadramawt province. The palace has become the war-torn country's latest heritage site facing collapse as heavy rain and years of neglect take their toll. The deterioration of the bright white building, reminiscent of a giant sandcastle with rounded turrets on its corners, reflects Yemen's downward spiral since 2014, when Iran-backed Huthi rebels began battling the government. A Saudi-led coalition intervened in support of the government in 2015. AFP

This photograph taken on October 14, 2020 shows a sign reminding sanitary measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 next to the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Mona Lisa" also known as La Gioconda in the Louvre Museum, deserted by tourists due to the Covid-19 pandemic, in Paris on October 14, 2020. Ludovic MARIN / AFP

Palestinian artist Khulud al-Desouki hangs her paintings as she works during lockdown at home in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip, on October 12, 2020, amid strict restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. MOHAMMED ABED / AFP

This picture shows a portrait of the french painter and writer Henri Cueco displayed in the workshop of French author, visual artist and draftsman Ernest Pignon-Ernest in Ivry-sur-Seine, near Paris, on October 7, 2020. JOEL SAGET / AFP

A painting off the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel, a historic luxury hotel in Midtown Manhattan, is seen in New York on October 12, 2020. The Roosevelt Hotel announced the hotel would permanently close due to continued financial losses associated with the COVID-19 pandemic. The final day of operation will be October 31, 2020. The hotel, named in honor of President Theodore Roosevelt, opened on September 22, 1924. TIMOTHY A. CLARY / AFP