Reflections on art and architecture by TIME critic Richard Lacayo.

Heeere's Johnny!

I paid a revisit Thursday to the Courbet retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum in Manhattan. I'll have more to say later, but for now I just want to offer this to Hollywood. If you ever make a Courbet bio-pic....

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Self-Portrait (The Desperate Man), Courbet, 1844-45/ Image: COURTESY CONSEIL INVESTISSEMENT ART, BNP PARIBAS

...I know who should play him.

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