The picture book is a relatively new art form. For my money, the first true picture book is Wanda Gág’s “Millions of Cats,” published in 1928.

Critics’ Picks Best Art Books of 2024 The art critics of The Times select their favorites, from the biography of a “famously unknown” artist to an ode to the Louvre from 100 poets.

In Barnett's view, if we are to really respect the taste and intelligence of kids, we should also be venerating their art as highly as any other literature. He'd put books such as Frog and Toad ...

Picture books can do anything. Today they take on subjects that were largely ignored during my childhood, such as socioemotional awareness. When I was young, we had Alexander and his “terrible ...

Judging from “ Get the Picture,” Bianca Bosker’s mesmerizing new book about New York’s contemporary art scene, Lebowitz might as well have been talking about cultural capital.

With Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See, Bosker explores the art scene by throwing herself in head first.

The picture book is a powerful, flexible art form whose audience — children — are keen and sensitive observers, new to our world and alert to its beauty and strangeness.