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February and March, with chilly temps and whipping winds, can often feel like an early-year lull. But extended daylight hours bring a spot of sunny hope for spring, as can a brand-new stack of the season's brightest art books. Peek into the visual records of Hollywood insiders, like iconic portraits by SNL's resident photographer Mary Ellen Matthews, eclectic ephemera owned by Paper magazine's former editor in chief Kim Hastreiter, and flashy party snaps by Vanity Fair's own contributor Dafydd Jones, alongside bodies of work more likely to be found in the world's white-cube galleries (a series of football-centric installations by Matthew Barney, a painterly survey of cargo ships by Richard Misrach, and a beguiling personal project by East Germany-born Anna Arendt). So grab your slippers, be they suede or fluffy, and curl up under your favorite reading lamp for an evening of cozy book bingeing.