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.

Mark Braude, Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris (2022). Courtesy of W.W. Norton. The incredible life story of Kiki de Montparnasse is so unlikely, it almost reads like fiction.

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.

The books behind 5 of the best picture Oscar nominees “Oppenheimer” is based on the novel “American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer.” ...

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.