A trigger warning on art? A daft idea – but a back-handed compliment | Jonathan Jones

Stephen Fry was wrong to criticise the use of trigger warnings. Great works of art, like those of Caravaggio, can be frightening, grotesque and extremeTrigger warnings are a modern folktale, surely? The idea that a generation of students are demanding – in between marching against statues and banning Germaine Greer – to be warned about violent, sexual or otherwise threatening content in great works of art has, to someone who has not been on campus for years, a fictional quality.When