Arshile Gorky - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • Kurt Vonnegut's novel Bluebeard (1987) briefly mentions Gorky.
  • Gorky appears in Atom Egoyan's 2002 movie Ararat as a child in Van and later as an adult survivor of the Armenian Genocide living in New York.
  • Stephen Watts's poem The Verb "To Be" (Gramsci & Caruso, Periplum 2003) is dedicated to Gorky's memory.
  • Gorky appears as a character in Charles L. Mee's play about Joseph Cornell, Hotel Cassiopeia (2006).

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