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Did it just happen that as Jodie Foster's "Contact" is revving to open, a mission to Mars is grabbing the headlines?
Just as the art world is revving up for the Jackson Pollock extravaganza at the Museum of Modern Art in November, it's good to be reminded just how far along the line of abstraction and monumentality Monet had traveled by the end of his long life.