James Franco Is, Actually, an Artist. So Why Won't the Art World Take Him Seriously?

James Franco has famously resisted being identified as merely an actor, pursuing a simultaneous life in the art world -- making videos of dollhouses split in half, painting fat pets, and restaging Cindy Sherman's iconic 1977-1980 "Untitled Film Stills," with Franco himself standing in for Sherman, who was (in her ... More