You can hear live music from award-winning saxophonist Ole Mathisen at the Bollinger Forum tonight!

Happening off-Campus: Yesterday, Frida Kahlo’s painting “El Sueno (La cama)” [“The Dream (The bed)”] set the record for the top sale price of a work by any female artist, as well as the top sale price of a work by any Latin American artist. Sold at Sotheby’s for $54.7 million, the painting of an asleep Kahlo dethrones Georgia O’Keeffe’s “Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1,” which sold for $44.4 million in 2014, and Kahlo’s own “Diego and I,” which sold for $34.9 million in 2021. The sale is a source of debate among art historians, some fearing that the painting–last exhibited publicly in the late 1990s–could again disappear from the public eye. (NBC)

Happening near Campus:  President Donald Trump plans to meet with NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in D.C. this afternoon to discuss “public safety, economic security, and the affordability agenda.” Trump, who has labeled Mamdani a communist and threatened to cut off federal funding to NYC, says, “We’ll work something out.” (The Gothamist)

Happening on Campus: Today from 7:30 to 9 pm, the Lee C. Bollinger Forum will welcome award-winning Jazz saxophonist and Director of the Louis Armstrong Jazz Program Ole Mathisen for a free, public concert. Register here. 

Song of the Day: Creature of Habit by Ole Mathisen  

Saxophonist from Bwog Archives