Amy Sherald's "everyday people"
A New York City exhibition by the artist whose painting of Michelle Obama became a sensation features portraits of everyday models
Arts
Almanac: America's first aerial photograph
On October 13, 1860, James Wallace Black took a picture of Boston from a balloon 1,200 feet in the air
NYC's Museum of Modern Art gets a makeover
After a $450 million renovation, the "New MoMA" will reopen this month with nearly 30% more gallery space, and room for an additional 1,000 one pieces of art
John Williams on reworking the classics – his own
The composer collaborates with Anne-Sophie Mutter on "Across the Stars," featuring works for violin and orchestra adapted from his classic film scores, including "Star Wars," "Harry Potter" and "Schindler's List"
"Upholstery CSI": Preserving antique furniture at Colonial Williamsburg
Getting the period details just right is a mission for furniture conservator Leroy Graves, a detective of sorts who has revolutionized how museums preserve and protect upholstered antiques
ParaPivot: The Met's Roof Garden hosts the planets
Art Under the Sun: Artist Alicja Kwade's nine massive carved and polished stone spheres, representing the planets, appear to float among intersecting steel frames amid the skyline of Manhattan
A good yarn: Colorful art on the Asbury Park Boardwalk
Art Under the Sun: The street artist known as HotTea changed his medium of choice from spray paint to yarn
Water towers as art: Iconic urban fixtures decorate a Chicago park
Art Under the Sun: Iván Navarro's neon-decorated sculptures speak of a society chasing dreams of economic advancement, social mobility, and home
Cowgirl photographer Barbara Van Cleve
Born and bred in Montana, at 84 she still runs cattle with the best – and is celebrated for chronicling the lives of ranch women with her evocative images of the American West
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater at 60
Founded by the groundbreaking dancer-choreographer, one of the world's preeminent modern dance companies continues his legacy with a new generation
How the Peanuts character Woodstock got his name
The Charles M. Schulz Museum, in Santa Rosa, Calif., is celebrating one of the comic strip's most popular characters: the little "hippie bird" who became a devoted friend of Snoopy's
Face value: Portraits on money
Seth Dickerman's portraits of presidents that appear on our currency, magnified up to 10,000%, make the stoic profiles that are so familiar look strangely new
Black models in modern art
A recent NYC exhibition, now at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, explores the importance of black models as key to the development of 19th and 20th century art
Graffiti beyond the streets
What was once a symbol of New York's 'bad old days' is now being celebrated. Serena Altschul reports on "Beyond the Streets," the largest exhibition of graffiti and street art ever produced
Surrealist art and war
The exhibition "Monsters & Myths" explores how war's real-life monstrosities bred metaphorical monsters in mid-20th century paintings and sculptures by such artists as Dalí, Ernst, Masson and Miró
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A pilgrimage to the desk with the greatest view
In the late 1970s, a group of university students in West Texas, wanting a place to study with a view, hauled a desk to the top of Hancock Hill in the town of Alpine. Today, the desk is a pilgrimage for hikers seeking a meditative place.
"Severance" star Adam Scott
The former "Parks and Recreation" star heads the surreal, critically-acclaimed series about workers at a mysterious corporation whose brains are altered to create distinctly separate personalities in and out of the office.
Laufey on creating her own sound
Whimsical and romantic, the music of Icelandic singer and cellist Laufey Lín Bing Jónsdóttir blends pop, jazz, classical and bossa nova – a "mishmash," she calls it. Her latest album is "A Matter of Time."
Capturing the melting of glaciers, with data and art
For more than 40 years, glaciologist Mauri Pelto has been measuring shrinking glaciers in Washington State. He's been joined by his daughter, artist-scientist Jill Pelto, whose watercolors provide another view of the drastically-changing landscape.
This week on "Sunday Morning" (August 17)
A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the Emmy-winning program, hosted by Jane Pauley.
To tip or not to tip: That is David Sedaris' question
The humorist has some thoughts about gratuities, especially when they're pre-programmed onto a screen.
The JFK Files
More than six decades after the Kennedy assassination, the existence of unreleased documents from the investigation has continued to fuel questions - and conspiracy theories - in search for a "smoking gun." What did the recent release of thousands of documents reveal?
At 75, "Sunset Boulevard" is ready again for its closeup
Billy Wilder's caustic tale of Hollywood, obsession and murder, in which a fading star of silent pictures tries to recreate her fame, is back in its full dark glory.
Steve Wozniak on fighting internet scams
The computer inventor and co-founder of Apple is sounding the alarm about one of the great threats of this new Information Age: internet fraud. He talks about how he is fighting for the victims of online scams involving AI, cryptocurrency and faked messages.
The crypto craze sweeping Washington and Wall Street
While many Americans are still baffled by cryptocurrency, enthusiasm for these digital assets is growing - despite the potential risks of integrating digital currencies with the mainstream economy - in part due to support coming from the White House.