5 Classic Hollywood Movies That Sculpted Our Image of Artists as Tragic, Irrepressible, Erotic Heroes

Ben Davis

National Art Critic

Ben Davis has been Artnet News's National Art Critic since 2016. He is the author of '9.5 Theses on Art and Class' (Haymarket, 2013), and ‘Art in the After-Culture’ (Haymarket, 2022).

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5 Classic Hollywood Movies That Sculpted Our Image of Artists as Tragic, Irrepressible, Erotic Heroes

How Did the Heart Become a Symbol of Love? The Clues Lie in This Medieval French Illustration

Review: ‘Velvet Buzzsaw’ Probably Won’t Scare the Horror Fans, But It May Terrify the Art World

Bruno Latour, the Philosopher of Science Who Changed Art Theory, Explains His New Book on Climate Change

What Is Democracy? An Experimental New Documentary Looks at the History of an Idea—and Offers a Ray of Hope

The World’s Most-Liked Instagram Post Is a Picture of an Egg—and It Hatches a New Age of Conceptual Art for the People

Why Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick’s ‘Labor Studies’ Is One of the Best Shows I’ve Seen in a Long Time

The New Museum’s Staff Is Pushing to Unionize—and Top Leadership Is Not at All Happy About It

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The Perplexingly Popular Conspiracy Theory That ‘Salvator Mundi’ Is Connected to #Russiagate, Explained

Here Are 6 Big Ideas That Gripped the Art World in 2018, From ‘Platform Capitalism’ to ‘Chthulucene’

From Malibu in Flames to Families Separated at the Border, Here Are the 10 Most Memorable News Photographs of 2018

The Whitney’s Warhol Show Strives to Spotlight His Human Side. But It’s His Cynicism That Remains Most Surprising

After an International Outcry From Activists and Artists, Photographer Shahidul Alam Is Finally Granted Bail in Bangladesh

Excited for Amazon’s Arrival in Long Island City? The Results for New York’s Art Community Won’t Be Pretty

The Museum of Voting Shows What Everyone Gets Wrong About Youth and Politics. Here’s Why

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