Film noir did not arrive with a manifesto. It emerged gradually in the years surrounding World War II, as filmmakers struggled to give form to a world marked by economic collapse, global conflict, and institutional failure. From the early 1940s through the late 1950s, noir crystallized not as a genre, but as a style and...

For more than fifty years, Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano has defied and transcended expectations of genre, style, medium, audience, and geography. Propelled by an unyielding pursuit of creative evolution, Amano’s output forms a vast and intricate universe, one in which narratives and motifs interweave, converse, and come apart across a variety of media. To match...