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“Mobituaries”: Thomas Paine, the forgotten founding father – CBS News Watch CBS News Mo Rocca pulled out all the stops to honor the Revolutionary author whose pamphlets lit the fuse for American independence but whose passing in 1809 drew indifference and even scorn. To hear the “Mobituaries” podcast on the life and death of Thomas…
The genius of Leonardo da Vinci – CBS News Watch CBS News Artist Leonardo da Vinci produced two of the most famous paintings in history, “The Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa.” But he was also passionate about medical discoveries and military inventions, some of which were centuries ahead of their time. Walter Isaacson, author…
Black models in modern art – CBS News Watch CBS News A recent New York City art 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, through their representations by French and American artists (including Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas,…
The Hague, Netherlands — The Netherlands’ national museum has a new object on display that merges art with Amsterdam’s infamous Red Light District: a nearly 200-year-old condom, emblazoned with erotic art. The Rijksmuseum said in a statement that the playful prophylactic, believed to be made around 1830 from a sheep’s appendix, “depicts both the playful and…
Chandelier bidding. Quiet phone banks. Executives wiping their brows. One of the most anticipated auctions of the season proved to be anticlimactic on Monday evening at Christie’s in New York, where many objects were presold to guaranteed bids and there was little evidence of the enthusiastic buyers who defined the market’s peak in 2022. Experts…
Chandelier bidding. Quiet phone banks. Executives wiping their brows. One of the most anticipated auctions of the season proved to be anticlimactic on Monday evening at Christie’s in New York, where many objects were pre-sold to guaranteed bids and there was little evidence of the enthusiastic buyers who defined the market’s peak in 2022. Experts…
This week, the actress Brooke Shields posted an image of an action-figure version of herself that came with a needlepoint kit and a pet terrier. Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, Republican of Georgia, imagined her own figurine accompanied by a gavel and a Bible. These hyper-realistic dolls are nowhere to be found in toy stores, at…
Sales in the international art market declined 12 percent in 2024, according to the Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report published on Tuesday. The annual report, seen as the most reliable indicator of the art market’s size and health, said that sales had fallen for the second year in a row. “Decline in…