The letters were addressed to Margarita Konenkova and were written between 1945 and 1946. Linda talks with Paul Needham, the former director of Sotheby's department of books and manuscripts, about the collection and the expected price that the letters could bring at auction. Washington D-C 20001. Chuck Close is internationally famous for his very large portraits. He paints from photographs, but divides his canvas up into tiny squares and fills each with little squiggles that are analogous to pixels.
Viewers see the individual shapes up close, but as they back away, the image gels into a portrait.
Chuck Close was famous before he was struck with a collapsed spinal artery. It left him a partial quadraplegic, but he still paints from his wheelchair using a motorized canvas. A major retrospective is now touring the country. Karen Michel reports. NPR's Barbara Bradley reports on today's Supreme Court ruling that people infected with HIV, but showing no symptoms, are nevertheless considered disabled, and are therefore eligible for anti-discrimination protection.