Photo Credit:RKO Radio Pictures, still photographer Alexander Kahle, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Charlton Allen Orson Welles’s film may no longer shock us the way it shocked audiences in 1941—but only because so much of modern cinema learned to speak its language.
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Culture What Makes a Monet a Monet? Artificial intelligence forces us to rethink artistic authenticity. To mark the centenary of Claude Monet’s death, the auction house Sotheby’s sold Les Îles de Port-Villez and Vétheuil, effet du matin, two Monets that had gone unseen by the public for a century, hidden away in a private collection. The plein air works sold for a staggering $19.7 million in April, smashing pre-sale estimates. One hundred years after his death, Monet’s stature appears more secure than ever, even as the art world enters a new age of imitation and fakery. Far from the auction houses of Paris and the…Open