"I have been a full-time, professional art critic for most of my adult life. I spend my days in galleries, surrounded by art, reading about it, absorbing it. I like art a lot, but I am also cynical about its supposed benefits beyond the merely aesthetic. But just as a new study by the Art Fund finds that art isn't just good for our mental wellbeing but our physical health,"
"Top of the pile of new releases is the latest from Katy Hessel, celebrity art historian, podcast host and the author of mainstream art bestseller The Story of Art Without Men. Her new book, How to Live an Artful Life is like a self-help guide littered with quotes from YBAs one for every day of the year. If you can't learn something from the person who sold their dirty bed for 150,000, you're a lost cause."
An Art Fund study links art to improved mental wellbeing and physical health. Three recent popular works argue that art also offers practical life lessons and personal-improvement strategies. A calendar-style collection uses daily aphorisms and contemporary-artist quotes, urging directives such as 'Be porous', embrace selective inaction, and perform small bold acts like 'smash it'. A veteran art critic experiments with these prescriptions while facing unemployment, reduced exercise, and uncertainty to observe whether art-infused practices produce meaningful emotional or behavioral change.
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