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.

Anthony Browne, British author and illustrator of children’s books, stresses that a picture book is often a child’s introduction to visual art. Browne, who was awarded the Children’s ...

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.

Not long after a hospitalization in Mexico City in the late-1950s, Robert McCloskey stopped writing books. He made puppets — “stop gap motion picture stuff,” his daughter explained.

Australian picture books, for example, remain predominately white in representation, with people of colour making up approximately 12% of characters. Unlike Horman, I view this as a problem.

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.