Ordinarily, people seek to avoid sadness, he says. "But in aesthetics and in art we actively seek it out." Artists have exploited this seemingly paradoxical behavior for centuries. In the 1800s ...

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This year’s Palme d’Or winner, Triangle of Sadness, is a class satire ... saw a room of wealthy art patrons willingly terrorised by a man pretending to be a chimpanzee. Östlund views these ...

Recently, while browsing in the Museum of Modern Art store in New York ... I’d argue that we have become so sad, lonely, angry and mean as a society in part because so many people have not ...