Best Photos of the Day

Among the works in their Asia Week New York exhibition (March 16-24) Japanese Paintings and Prints: 1800-1860-at Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Art is South Wind, Clear Dawn, the iconic woodblock print by Katsushika Hokusai, (1760-1849), South Wind, Clear Dawn (Gaifu kaisei), Series: Thirty-six Views of Fuji (Fūgaku sanjūrokkei), ca. 1831-33, color woodblock print; ōban yoko-e, 10¼ x 15 in. (26 x 38.1 cm.),Signed: Hokusai aratame Iitsu hitsu, Publisher: Eijudō (Nishimuraya Yohachi II)Photo: Sebastian Izzard LLC Asian Ar.

A market-fresh copy of the first world atlas compiled by an Englishman sold at Chiswick Auctions earlier today for £33,750 (including buyer’s premium). John Speed’s A Prospect of the most famous Parts of the World bound together with The Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine came for sale by family descent.

Natey Jones as Ivan and Meecah as Elsa in the musical "The Harder They Come" at the Public Theater in New York, March 3, 2023. A stage adaptation of the 1972 movie about a Jamaican singer turned outlaw hero sounds great but falls hard at the Public Theater. (Sara Krulwich/The New York Times)

The singer Marilyn Maye watches a student, Susie Clausen, perform at a club in New York, Feb. 24, 2023. Nearing 95, the inimitable singer is about to make her Carnegie Hall solo debut. In an eight-decade career, it’s a crowning moment -- and just another gig. (Clark Hodgin/The New York Times)

Special Agent Allen Grove, who helps lead the FBI’s art crime unit that is based out of Los Angeles, at the Federal Building in Los Angeles, March 9, 2023. The agents who specialize in art crime cases are seeing increased interest in their work. (Jake Michaels/The New York Times)

A photograph published in "Uncrating the Japanese House: Junzo Yoshimura, Antonin and Noémi Raymond and George Nakashima," which details how in the 1950s, Japanese officials exported a teahouse for display in the courtyard of the Museum of Modern Art. (August Editions/Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia via The New York Times)

Georgia O'Keeffe's "Rust Red Hills", on display in the Brauer Museum of Art on the Valparaiso University campus, in Valparaiso, Ind. on March 1, 2023. Valparaiso, a Lutheran university in northwestern Indiana that is struggling with the declining enrollment seen at many schools, is planning to sell several works from the collection of its Brauer Museum of Art, including O'Keeffe's "Rust Red Hills", to raise $10 million for the renovation of two freshman dormitories, which it sees as key to securing its future. (Taylor Glascock/The New York Times)

The Bay Bridge illuminated by LED lights, in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2013. The artwork created by Leo Villareal, known as the Bay Lights, was turned off on March 5, 2023 after its creators said it could no longer endure the region’s harsh conditions. They hope to raise $11 million to refurbish it. (Jim Wilson/The New York Times)

"Sleeping Figure," by the artist Matt Johnson, made of decommissioned shipping containers, at the Desert X biennial in Palm Springs, Calif., March 2, 2023. Almost all the artworks in the Coachella Valley biennial are socially engaged and site-specific. (Coley Brown/The New York Times)

SZA performs at Madison Square Garden in New York, March 4, 2023. The R&B star’s first New York arena show supporting her blockbuster album "SOS" was a deft mix of styles and sounds, with guests Cardi B and Phoebe Bridgers. (Nina Westervelt/The New York Times)