The delicate craft of wood carver David Esterly
The sculptor's finely-detailed, expressive works are conjured from the subtle neurological connections between the artist's brain and hands, now afflicted with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease
Arts
Teddy Abrams, the Louisville Orchestra's rock star
At 32 he is the youngest conductor of a major orchestra in the United States, and he's done what most orchestras are desperate to do: increased the audience, young and old
Trafficking in art
In Florence the hottest new art pieces are Clet Abraham's doctored street signs – playful, funny and irreverent
Florentine artisans: Preserving the traditions of Medici taste
The Italian city still has a thriving culture of artisanship, with historic roots that go back 600 years
David, the quintessence of Renaissance art
Michelangelo's 17-foot-tall masterpiece stands front-and-center at the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence
Street art: Japanese manhole covers
Colorful designs adorn the lids to the sewers in towns across the country, inspiring flocks of fans, called "manholers," to engage in manhole tourism
J.R.R. Tolkien's creation of Middle-earth, on display in New York City
An exhibition at the Morgan Library and Museum explores the fantasy author's creative process
Playwright Taylor Mac on "Gary": Following in Shakespeare's bloody footsteps
The performance artist and author, who's made a career of challenging audience expectations, has written the unlikeliest of black comedies as a sequel to the Bard's most violent play
Frida Kahlo: The unapologetic artist
As evident in a new exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, there is so much more to the famed painter than meets the eye
Notre Dame, the world's church
It had withstood a war, a revolution, neglect, and the impact of up to 40,000 tourists a day. But there is so much more than stone to the Parisian cathedral damaged by fire this week
Bill Traylor: The imaginative art of a freed slave
A Smithsonian retrospective brings together the whimsical works of an Alabama sharecropper who, at age 86, began a new career as a self-taught artist
Rock relics at New York's Metropolitan Museum
The exhibition "Play It Loud" features instruments that were played by some of the most artful and timeless musicians, now given a stage all their own
Hudson Yards' Vessel: Like a park, but vertical
Designer Thomas Heatherwick's 150-foot-tall, $150 million three-dimensional public space is the centerpiece of New York's newest neighborhood
Handcrafting books: Labors of love
In an age of mass-produced titles, the care with which artisans create beautiful books by hand speaks volumes
Harvesting chairs: How an English craftsman shapes furniture from the ground up
Gavin Munro gently and lovingly bends Mother Nature into shape – growing, grafting and pruning trees into chairs and other decorative pieces
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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.