James Franco, ‘New Film Still #58,’ 2013. (Courtesy Pace Gallery) On Saturday morning, at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on Lafayette Street, renowned art writer Calvin Tomkins celebrated ...

Cindy Sherman on James Franco's Pace Exhibition: "I Don't Know That I Can Say It's Art" Does Cindy Sherman's opinion of James Franco's work matter more since she inspired his art?

Art critic Roberta Smith (my wife) wrote a damning review of James Franco’s 65 silly self-obsessed demi-drag re-creations of Cindy Sherman’s 1977-80 “Film Stills,” now being shown at Pace ...

James Sherman: Well, ... That all great art, if it’s done well, looks easy, and it surely is not. Chagall [at the time of this play] was no longer in fashion.