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On the Left Bank of the River Seine, directly across from the Louvre museum, a crowded little shop has provided supplies to artists for more than 100 years. Cezanne bought oil paints there. Picasso liked their gray pastels. The shop, Sennelier, is a Paris repository of art history and commerce.

The latest issue of The Paris Review is the first for a new editor, Philip Gourevitch. Some former editors say the quarterly is no longer loyal to the vision of its founder, the late George Plimpton.

A British artist named Banksy has been able to sneak his work into some of New York's top museums over the past month. He tells Michele Norris what he does and why.

Thomas Mayne is the first American to win the Pritzker Prize in 14 years. Taipei, Madrid and cities in New York and California have embraced his bold style.

Generations of children have grown up singing the music and lyrics of Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman. Their hugely popular film musicals, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang have now been adapted for the stage.

From 1950 to 1956, the team of Martin and Lewis were America's favorite entertainers. A new memoir from Jerry Lewis details how their 10-year partnership was destroyed. Dean and Me: A Love Story details life behind the scenes of 16 films and numerous TV and club shows.

English playwright Harold Pinter is awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is the author of plays such as The Birthday Party and The Caretaker. Pinter has earned his own adjective, "Pinteresque," which refers to his use of spare dialogue and banal settings to create a sense of dread and implied violence in everyday relationships.

British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as The Caretaker and The Birthday Party and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

At Sunday night's Emmy awards, the retired sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond won for best comedy series and new hit Lost won for best drama.

We spotlight three more young people with promising futures: Jamail Larkins, one of the youngest U.S. pilots ever to fly solo; filmmaker Alrick Brown; and 14-year-old model Gerren Taylor.