This is the paradox of sad music: We generally don’t enjoy being sad in real life, but we do enjoy art that makes us feel that way. Countless scholars since Aristotle have tried to account for it. – The New York Times Source link
In a telephone interview, Wolfgang Böhler’s son, Florian, said his father never sold or possessed the Tiepolo painting and that his father’s gallery was unrelated to other art businesses with the name Böhler, including the one in Munich. Julius Böhler’s name appears several times in a 1946 report by the Art Looting Investigation Unit, a…
The 11th edition of Frieze New York returned to the Shed in Hudson Yards this week, opening on Wednesday for VIP fairgoers and running until Sunday. Hosting 68 galleries this year, the fair’s opening hours were buzzing, likely a showing of strength for New York’s art market over that of London and Hong Kong. On…
There’s an outsized emphasis on newness during Frieze week. Dealers dish about emergent trends and brag about recent work from their rosters. Articles—including some on this site, probably—will spotlight first-time participants and crown future market stars. Everyone wants to know: What’s the next big thing? But this week, 21 dealers will ignore the new and…
Non-writing staff members on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” will not be paid after this Friday and are being put on an “unpaid leave of absence” as the writers strike continues, a source close to NBC told HuffPost. The source, who requested anonymity out of concern about potential reprisal, said the staff abruptly received…