by their sources, i mean gauguin and even van gogh.nd yet, when one looks at a derain like this, i think it's very obvious that the discord, the tension that came with the sexual subject matter of kirchner in germany and of schiele in austria just isn't there. the fauves used their wild way with color-- it was actually much less wild than it seems. they knew exactly how to use a blue against a green, an orange or red against a yellow-- they used their way with color to ravish the eye. they produced versions not only of a golden age, bu also what one might call a tourist's world, a world where the sun is always out. in the early years of this century, modernism came in a tremendous variety of forms in many different places. but one city was viewed as the center of modernism and acted as a magnet to a motley army of artists who came from everywhere-- russians, rumanians, germans, british, americans-- all drawn by what became a sort of bohemian finishing school for modern artists. despite the reputation of schiele, klimt, and matisse, one

van gogh called it still life based with daisy and poppy. of the if you work the artist sold during his life time. buyer name not disclosed. record for van gogh is 82.5 million dollars. >> now the mystery in the sky over america. it appeared to be a fire ball with sightings reported in more than a dozen states. tonight major reveal about at least one of those sightings. was it a stunt? clayton has more. >> the celestial firework lit up the sky last tonight. captured by the dash camera of west virginia police sergeant. >> it just kind of blows up a little bit and catches more on fire. >>reporter: hundreds of reports of mysterious fir ball came in from 14 states. including illinois. where witness saw this slow moving stream. that one turned out to be sky divers carrying flares. hurdling toward the chicago sky line. part of a publicity stunt for energy drink. but this one over japan was the real thing. >> more than likely this is natural debris from an asteroi asteroid. >> nasa believes the flashes of light were caused by different meteor. this

it's inspired by vincent van gogh's painting 'starry night.'the path is just over a half- mile long -- and uses special stones and solar-powered lights to mimic the famous artwork. it's part of "van gogh 20-15" -- a year of events commemorating the artist. we're about two weeks away from one of the biggest shopping days of the year. and major retailers are pulling out all the stops -- to get your hard-earned dollar on black friday. cristina alesci explains. stores make up 40 percent of their profits and just last six week of the year in 2004 sales grew nearly 7% in 2013 this sales increase was less than half that this year to retailers have a unique opportunity low gas prices with a little more spending money with billions of dollars stake this is what store's undoing one retailers are rolling out promotions early even before black friday including target and kmart and radio shack to minimize way time stores are increasing staff at mobil check out that is shoppers are more valuable than ever before three focus on online sales expect more specia

this one kilometer path is in the netherlands not far from where van gogh lived. artist used thousands of solar powered l.e.d. lights imbedded in the concrete. here's a look at the bike path and the painting. you can see them side by side. really neat. you can see they share the same swirling pattern, the lights imitate the painting style. nice. >>> a home invasion in the south bay in the middle of the night while a family is sleeping ends with a teenaged son becoming a hero. >> abc 7 news reporter matt keller with the story. >> reporter: the 18-year-old is a techie working in applied materials. it's not his brain but his brawn that would be any prowler's worst nightmare. >> i play football, wrestlers baseball, basketball, ju-jitsu. >> reporter: the 6'2" 250 pound athlete woke up early this morning to screams inside the townhome near the great mall he shares with his two sisters, mom and her fiance. a man somehow got up to the second story balcony and entered the sliding glass door to his mom's bedroom. >> i seen the shadow pop up. >> reporter: mom and her fiance

one chinese buyer paid $62 million for this van gogh still life that was well above the $50 million high estimate. sotheby's saying buyers from 44 countries participated in last night's auction either by phone or in person. the market gets another test tonight as christies holds its impressionist sale. this manet cos fetch up to $35 million. and la jair's construction workers with tree could go for over $20 million. the big auction houses expect to sell close to $2 billion worth of art over the next week. the focus will be on the blockbuster post-war and contemporary sales next tuesday and wednesday. we'll see if these surreal prices are brief abstractions or the new reality. for "nightly business report," i'm robert frank. >> and finally tonight, forbes magazine is out with its ranking of the most powerful people in the world. in third place is the general secretary of the communist chinese communist party she the jinping. in second place our own president and commander in chief barack obama and topping the list for the second year in a row russian president vladimir putin who flexed hi

. >> reporter: ...to faraway van goghs. >> guess who that is? the person over there?er: i have no idea. >> me, either. >> reporter: the kid is nine, which is also reflected in the list itself. >> we tried to stay very true to exactly what he said, and some of it was weird. he wanted to see the inside of a water tower. he wanted to see the inside of the apple store. and his enthusiasm about seeing these things, his... his joy is contagious. >> reporter: today, it's chalk under a microscope. >> there we go. >> reporter: yes, that was actually on the list. >> and that's your chalk dust. >> reporter: his parents really are trying to cram in as many different visuals as they can. >> he'll be able to talk about what the ocean is like with his kids. >> and he will remember in his mind what that looks like because he was there before. >> reporter: it's a gift he may never be able to fully appreciate. at least, so i thought. you realize how lucky you are that your parents are helping make all this happen? he considered that for quite a while, then asked me a question. >> do yo

the solar wrote a dutch artists has installed his goal of the dock by pathe inspired by vincent van gogh'snting starry night is use it uses special stalls and solar power lights to mimic the famous art work. >> gary: good evening about 40 niners in new york as we speak harbaugh and company are getting ready for the new york giants. 5 and 4 record. after a night game suspension and all this mess of very little room for error they will have to come out and beat the giants and get ready for thanksgiving night against seattle they have to win. >> gary: good news on the beat chris moreland is the rookie of the scud have to take over for patrick well as well as the season is over because of injury. chris >> gary: more land is the nfl's top rookie. meanwhile we quiberon and the raiders their zero and nine they're all 1/6 things in the detroit lions on his arrival is alright though. with the play as a whole team will open the 49ers are 49 a crowd of be out there allowed. >> gary: saddam on sunday from san diego you'll hear more raiders fan for whatever reasons as they travel well down there southe

recreating vincent van gogh's starry, starry night. this kicks off a year of cultural event honouring the 125th anniversary of the artists' death >>> a collector in south korea spent $2.4 million for a hat. not just any hat, obviously, this was worn in battle by napoleon bonaparte >>> knapp olion bonaparte was a great military general if history. he con kerred much of europe and did so wearing one of these. it was sold outside paris to a collector tore $2.2 million, four times more than its estimate. the black felt is a little weathered by age and use. no one has worn the had since napoleon's vet received it from the leader as a gift. >> translation: we know there's few of napoleon's hats left. 120 approximately. we can document 19 of them. 17 of those are in museums. this is unique. it is completely symbolic. >> reporter: it's part of a napolionic collection belonging to the royal family, they are having a clear out. and wanted to make sure the its were not locked behind closed doors. >> he understood at the time that a symbol was pow

catfish that not too much away from completion first if >> reporter: fact is all part of van gogh 2015 and year-end demand will commemorate the artist. >> reporter: was alive metallicized is a beautiful view from mt. tam. will be right back. >> reporter: the flight was scheduled to land in seattle but the play had to go around the east bay surely after takeoff when it landed despite the sound of plane sustained some damage this data on for repairs. >> reporter: a history reconed space probe and is mentioned early the european space agency is there there are no longer receiving transmission. it landed on the dark side of the comment in the solar panels cannot keep the battery charge. >> erica: lots of sunshine for most of was to have little fog hangs and out in the north. we're in the affected for a downtown san francisco. to much of our pretty close to the southern the seventh round before cast for and steady conditions into early next week. >> catherin >> here is stanley roberts who found some people behaving badly! >>stanley: the owner claims this purely economic the dollar, wrote a

vincent van gogh, pablo picasso, leonardo da vinci all great artists and all dead.ht we have with us the greatest living painter, please welcome sherman williams. [ laughter ] thank you, mr. williams. i thank you, our living room thanks you. folks i'm humbled by the presence of our next guest. dirk callahan is here. dirk was the first man to clench his fist, look up at the sky, and scream "why" in anger. dirk, could you look up now and shout the line that made you famous? >> hello. [ laughter ] [ cheers & applause ] >> seth: dirk has gone through some tough times since he first screamed "why" in anger. and often he forgets what his famous line is. his famous line of course being "why" screamed in anger up to the ceiling. dirk, do you want to give it one more shot? dirk, scream your famous line. [ cheers & applause ] >> why. >> seth: i think we're all asking ourselves why, dirk. and finally -- oh, no. the devil has returned. oh, no, ladies and gentlemen the devil is inside of me, seth meyers. devil we must end this now. by the power of nbc's holy trinity brian willia

one person made a bike path out of it, thousands of light recreate vincent van gogh's starry nights. designed by dan rows guard, it kicks off a year of cultural event honouring the 100nth anrersry of the artist's death. $2.4 million was spent for a hat. it's not any hat, it was warn in battle by napoleon bona part. we have this report >> reporter: knapp olian bona -- napoleon bona part was a great general. he concurred much of europe and did so wearing one of these, his famous hat. it was sold outside paris to a sean collector for $2.2 million. four times more than the estimate. the black felt is a little weathered by age and use. no one wore the hat since the vet received it. >> we know that there are few of napoleon's hats left. it's approximately 120 of them today. 17 of those are in museums. this is you meek. it's completely symbolic. snow it's part of a napoleonic collection belonging to monaco's royal family, they are having a clean out, and wanted to make sure the its didn't stay locked behind closed doors. >> he understood at that time that the symbol was powerful, and under

followed orders and had to shoot over the heads to get out so resisted we're the people to the team van gogh and not long after militia members walk did butchering everyone inside. that was then now we have the mission in south sudan with the people at a time of great meet at the same time south sudan today demonstrates the challenge of rapidly deploying peacekeepers and the equipment that they need. at the outset of this conflict the council swiftly authorized an emergency search of 520-0500 troops on the ground but one year later initiative in today's more than 2,000 troops short severely restricting the ability to provide security for those outside the camp. also a chronic shortage of helicopters and he made no shortfall of more than 30 helicopters consistently restricting the ability and effectiveness often in life or death situations. in the democratic republic of condo, there is similar good news/bad news after years of stagnant see the mission has played an important role in the last year to defeat powerful rebel groups alongside forces is led by a special mission known as the informa

and the passionate cypress trees of the master van gogh, 1889. text, here at the met we have artworks that could # #breaktheinternet too. i did sort of love that they were also -- they were being citational of her citation of the the feminist fertility -- the feminine fertility figure. >> first of all, it's about time we got to the white guy talking about this issue. >> yeah. >> what's going on? yeah, i love the idea of the met being like we have to get in on this. i have so much stuff to say. everything you said was really interesting. i want to say something about the eloquent thing. i feel like at this point everyone has a different definition. if that's what she considers eloquent, if that's what she wants to do with her body, that's fine. i would rather see her break the internet than some of these intellectual female politicians who support war crimes. you know what i mean? >> interesting. >> kind of, right? >> i don't know what her politics are, but we don't know if she's progressive? >> she identifies as a liberal republican. >> ew. all r

we will at the van gogh home.we'll see what they do. >> or people watching this interview thinking if they are a death row, they probably deserve to be, or there's, or there something better. >> actually, i wish that were the case. the truth is we've now got close to 150 nsm people that have been proved innocent. it's really hard to prove somebody hard to person by the msm. not because they are innocent, but we have a system we don't enable ear. you don't get the resources. we are very cynical and dismissive. in this case, they are quite dramatic and quite overwhelming. i wish i could tell people this really isn't as bad as i am saying it is. i actually think it is much worse. because the prison population has gone adult think there's a time in american history where we had more innocent people in jail and prison, including on death row, that we do today. the procedures and they hate in the regard that we have for fair and reliable process is actually lower than it was in my opinion then when i started my career 3