If Barbara Stanwyck blew you away — as she did poor Fred MacMurray — in Double Indemnity, or if you just dig Veronica Lake's swell combover, you'll love the art of Rachel Bess. Her paintings ...

the Art Deco movement (which the skyscrapers of Gotham City are made in the visage of), and film noir. Noir is a film genre characterized by dark high-contrast shadows ("noir" means "black" in ...