Picture Books

Between pauper's bibles and the modern graphic novel, there's Frans Masereel's My Book of Hours – a crucial example of the power of stories without words.

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Slipping Away

Portrait of Jennie is a small film, as far as history goes. But the dreamlike fantasy has much to say – about tomorrow, today, life, death, and New York.

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Boom & Bust

No one really thinks about busts anymore. But in the Victorian era, they were a way to rise from the corporeal to the ideal.

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