Best Photos of the Day

Raiko Conquering the Shuten Doji Demon of Oe Mountain, by Sugioka Yoshitoshi 1864, is an outstanding action-packed woodblock triptych in Supernatural: Cat Demons, Ogres and Shapeshifters, the exhibition at Egenolf Gallery Japanese Prints. 37.1 x 77.7 cm. Asia Week New York.

The gallerist Andrew Crispo, at a space he was planning to open in the meatpacking district of Manhattan in August 1998. Crispo, a once high-flying art gallerist brought low by a long series of tabloid-worthy scandals, including tax evasion, extortion and implication in the grisly 1985 murder of a Norwegian art student, died in Brooklyn on Feb. 8, 2024. He was 78. (Andrea Mohin/The New York Times)

A photo provided by the FBI shows a hand-drawn map of Okinawa dates back to the 19th century, one of 22 historic artifacts that were looted following the Battle of Okinawa, Japan, during World War II. The cache of artifacts was discovered in the attic of a veteran’s home after he died; the items were turned over to the FBI, which arranged for their return eight decades after the war. (FBI via The New York Times)

The Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colo., March 10, 2024. The museum was designed by the star Japanese architect Shigeru Ban. (Matthew DeFeo/The New York Times)

A vacant frame where Johannes Vermeer’s “The Concert” (1663-1666) was once displayed at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston in March 2024. After 34 years, not one of the 13 works stolen during the largest art theft in history has surfaced but the puzzling peculiarities of the case still draw interest. (Tony Luong/The New York Times)

Jeremy Strong as Dr. Thomas Stockmann in “An Enemy of the People” at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York, Feb. 25, 2024. The “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

Anthony Boyle in London, March 5, 2024. The actor has broken out on TV this year in the historical series “Masters of the Air” and “Manhunt.” (Max Miechowski/The New York Times)

Esa-Pekka Salonen in San Francisco, Oct. 11, 2022. Salonen, the music director of the San Francisco Symphony since 2020, announced on Thursday, March 14, 2024, that he would step down when his contract expires next year, citing differences with the orchestra’s board. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)

An undated photo provided by the director Herbert Danska shows the Original Last Poets, as they were billed, in the 1970 film “Right On!”: from left, Gylan Kain, Felipe Luciano and David Nelson. Kain, a Harlem-born poet and performance artist who was a founder of the Last Poets, the spoken-word collective that laid a foundation for rap music starting in the late 1960s, died on Feb. 7, 2024, in Lelystad, the Netherlands. He was 81. (Herbert Danska, via Museum of Modern Art via The New York Times)

Michelle B. Larson, president and chief executive of Adler Planetarium, left, and Ytasha Womack, a screenwriter on “Niyah and the Multiverse,” speak to the audience after a screening of the show at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago, March 7, 2024. The writer and filmmaker discussed the blend of theoretical cosmology and Black culture in Chicago’s newest planetarium show. (Akilah Townsend/The New York Times).