Art is good for your health? Allow me a quick eyeroll | Emma Brockes

Some now suggest a monthly dose of art can boost wellbeing. But the last thing we need is another item on our to-do lists As the long autumn subsides and we finally head into winter, so we hit that point in the calendar when two rival theories of seasonal survival play out: one, the permission-giving invitation to give up and power down, encapsulated by Scandinavian hygge and Katherine May’s 2020 blockbuster Wintering ; and two, the exhortation to push through the discomfort and get out there.