Absconded Art

Just in time for the dawn of corporate plagiarism being craftily branded as AI “art,” a series about forgers, fakers, and canvas takers, featuring a taut recreation of the heist of the century high-wire walk between the Twin Towers (Man on Wire), Orson Welles’s puckish contemplation of fraudulent Old Masters and cinematic prestidigitation (F for Fake), the battle to repatriate the archives of Mexico’s most famous architect (The Proposal), and other ruminations on originality, public domain usage and the art of stealing art.