Sunday Morning

Straight from the news, his subjects he’d choose: Martha Teichner shares an ode to CBS News’ resident wit and poet laureate, Charles Osgood, who died January 23, 2024 at age 91. (Portions of this story were originally broadcast September 25, 2016.) From down the hall, I decided to pay Charlie …

Welcome to the wacky and wonderful world of art collected by John Waters, on view now at the Baltimore Museum of Art – works like Richard Tuttle’s “Peace and Time”: “I love this piece, because it basically looks like I had a niece that failed shop class in summer camp,” …

In a town famous for make-believe, a fairy tale has come to life. Welcome to the Witch’s House, a medieval detour among the mansions of Beverly Hills. “It stands out like a sore thumb” – and happily so, says owner Michael J. Libow. Correspondent Lilia Luciano asked, “What is it …

The Greek and Roman Galleries at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are a wonder of white marble, an astonishing acre of it – world-famous, flooded with light, statues clean and gleaming. So, what’s wrong with this picture? “They would have all been painted,” said Marco Leona, the Met’s …

To the many sounds you’d expect to be produced by a forest, consider including this: the sound of the piano. The majestic “red spruce” growing in the Val di Fiemme of Italy’s Dolomites has been prized by instrument makers for centuries. To see why, “CBS Sunday Morning’s” Seth Doane followed …

This past fall’s annual gala at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was a star-studded event, with dozens of celebrities gathered to honor someone not often found on red carpets. John Legend called the focus of the event “an icon of the feminist and black arts movements.” But the …

When you win a Grammy, the judges tell you that your song or your album was the best of the year. But they don’t tell you why. They don’t tell you what they liked about it. But surely there’s a science to writing a hit song? David Pogue went on …

“And a one, and a two …” In 1971, after two decades on the air, ABC cancelled “The Lawrence Welk Show,” a musical variety series led by the German-accented bandleader and accordionist Lawrence Welk. Welk had become famous for his “champagne music,” so-called because fans likened it to drinking champagne …

Check out these art openings and events around the country this week: Denver: “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature” (through February 2, 2020) This Denver Art Museum exhibition features more than 120 paintings spanning Monet’s entire career and will focus on the celebrated French Impressionist’s enduring relationship with nature. Catalogue: …

“In every composition there’s always a moment of panic about three-quarters of the way through,” said the artist David Esterly. On a rainy day, in his barn in the rural hamlet of Barneveld in upstate New York, David Esterly is at work on one of his creations. When asked what …