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Still Life Sells

Home furnishings catalogs have evolved over the past couple of decades into glossy, sumptuous celebrations of domestic life (minus the mess). They're a far cry from the fuzzy line drawings of a Sears catalog at the turn of the last century. But Judith Kampfner says that some of the eye popping splendor in current catalogs begins much longer ago than that: with the 17th century paintings of Dutch Still Life masters.

James Rosenquist

The Pop artist James Rosenquist captures the hyperbright, supersaturated colors of commercial culture in his paintings. No surprise, then, that he started his career as a billboard painter. Kurt and Rosenquist tour a retrospective of his work at the Guggenheim Museum in New York -- the paintings date back to the 1960's and contain a surreal montage of lipsticks and bleaches and dishes and fighter jets and car parts and cola labels. Produced by David Krasnow.

• SLIDESHOW: Paintings by Rosenquist

Jingle All the Way

Advertising jingles used to be all over radio and television, but they seem to have gone into hiding lately. Richard Paul has created a celebration -- and an explanation -- of the nearly-lost art of writing a song to sell a product.

Dinah Shore sings "See the USA in Your Chevrolet," 1952:

Weigh in: What’s the best jingle of all time?