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Map Quest

“Cartographies of Time,” published by Princeton Architectural Press, is an eye-popping record of the ways that mapmakers, chronologists, artists and other infographics geeks have tried to convey the passage of time visually. “What does history look like?” the coauthors Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton write in their introduction. “How do you draw time?”

All of us are familiar with the old-fashioned timelines showing the march from antiquity to the industrial age, and Rosenberg and Grafton include some gorgeous examples. 

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Tales of the Night

  

Tales of the Night , Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur & Asmar)'s film extends the earlier shadow puppet style of Ocelot’s Princes and Princesses, with black silhouetted characters set off against exquisitely detailed Day-Glo backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns.

The film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead.

Is the U.S. Still a ‘Land of Opportunity’?

Room for Debate

Ringing in 2012

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"I've got the bowl, the bone, the big yard. I know I should be happy."

New Yorker Cartoon by Mike Twohy

'The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats'

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, at The Jewish Museum, is the first major exhibition in this country to pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983), whose beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie, Peter’s Chair, and The Snowy Day—the first modern full-color picture book to feature an African-American protagonist.Published in 1962, at the height of the civil rights movement in America, the book went on to become an inspiration for generations of readers, transforming children’s literature forever. 

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Gustafson’s studio, next to the living room.

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Black Hole

Roy Lichtenstein

"But then the demon, much too soon, returned one Sunday afternoon."

Edward Gorey