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# Not Exactly Role Models
- URL: https://birchtree.me/blog/not-exactly-role-models/
- Published: 2023-01-17T17:12:43.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-17T17:12:43.000Z
- Author: Matt Birchler
- Tags: Links, #Import 2023-06-01 22:41, #Import 2025-03-29 19:29

[Charles McGrath: Good Art, Bad People](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/opinion/global-agenda-magazine-good-art-bad-people.html?ref=birchtree.me)

> Can bad people create good art? If that question pops up on an exam or at a dinner party, you might want to be wary. The obvious answer — so obvious that it practically goes without saying, and ought to make the examinee suspicious — is that bad people, or at least people who think and behave in ways most of us find abhorrent, make good art all the time.

I came across this article from 2012 while working on my [365 Albums project](https://birchtree.me/blog/the-365-albums-project/), and started to queue up some posts from artists who are not exactly people I would call role models.