CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/2/2025

Art and artists through the Hollywood lens

Featured spreads are from new release The Hollywood History of Art, the newest collaboration between renowned film historian Sir Christopher Frayling and publisher Reel Art Press. Examining artists and artworks represented in mainstream cinema, this is both a scholarly deep-dive and an accessible gift book for lovers of both art and film. Across these particular pages, you see, at top, a publicity photo of Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli’s 1956 feature, Lust for Life, clutching van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Straw Hat (1887), across from the real thing. At center, original artworks and archival photographs related to Julie Taymor’s 2002 Frida Kahlo biopic, Frida, alongside shots of Salma Hayek and Alfred Molina recreating these scenes as Kahlo and Diego Rivera. And at bottom, Martin Scorsese photographed on set with Nick Nolte, in character as painter Lionel Dobie, in Life Lessons, the opening segment of New York Stories (1989).