38 h. ago The Guardian view on living more creatively: a daily dose of art | Editorial

It can make us healthier, happier and live longer. Engaging in culture should be encouraged like good diet and exerciseThe second Friday in January has been dubbed “Quitter’s Day”, when we are most likely to give up our new year resolutions. Instead of denying ourselves pleasures, suggests a new batch of books, a more successful route may be adding to them – nourishing our minds and souls by making creativity as much a daily habit as eating vegetables and exercising. Rather than the familiar exhortations to stop drinking, diet, take up yoga or running, there is an overwhelming body of evidence to suggest that joining a choir, going to an art gallery or learning to dance should be added to the new year list.Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt, professor of psychobiology and epidemiology at University College London, brings together numerous research projects confirming what we have always suspected – art is good for us. It helps us enjoy happier, healthier and longer lives. One study fou...

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68 h. ago Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life | Hayward Gallery | Art in London

Chiharu Shiota: Threads of Life | Hayward Gallery | Art in London  Time Out Worldwide

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4 d. ago Artists decry dismantling of Belgium’s oldest contemporary art museum

Cost-saving plan to transfer Antwerp museum’s entire collection to another city described as ‘simply insane’Prominent artists have spoken out against an “arbitrary reshaping” of Belgium’s museum landscape, as the Flanders region seeks to cut public spending by dismantling the country’s oldest contemporary art gallery and transplanting its entire collection to another city.At a press conference in Antwerp on Tuesday, the directors of the city’s Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), which was founded in 1985, decried what they called the “flagrant illegalities” of the museum sector shake-up, which is due to be debated in Belgium’s parliament on Friday. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Ted Williamson, stage lighting designer turned TV producer and director

Edmund Clynes Williamson, senior television producer-director. Born: 9 August 1933 in Sheffield. Died: 14 November 2025, aged 92

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5 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Alison Auldjo, art gallery curator and talented artist in her own right

Alison Auldjo, art gallery director and artist. Born: 2 February 1978 in Falkirk. Died: 16 September 2025, aged 47

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5 d. ago Scotsman Obituaries: Jimmy Lees, Scottish journalist who covered some of the biggest stories of the last century

James Melville Lees, journalist. Born: 12 March,1923 in Stonehaven. Died: 24 November, 2025 in Aberdeen, aged 102

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5 d. ago Paris court finds 10 guilty of harassing Brigitte Macron online

Teacher and publicist among those convicted of maliciously posting or sharing false claims French first lady is a manEurope live – latest updatesA Paris court has found 10 people guilty of online harassment of the French first lady, Brigitte Macron, by posting or reposting malicious comments on social media that falsely claimed she was a man.Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, including a school sports teacher, an art gallery owner and a publicist, were on Monday given sentences ranging from a compulsory course in understanding online harassment to an eight-month suspended prison sentence. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Scotsman Obituaries: Jonathan Smallwood, psychology professor fascinated by the wandering mind

Jonathan Mark Smallwood, Professor of Psychology. Born: 13 October 1975 in Wolverhampton. Died: 24 October 2025 in West Kilbride, aged 50

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3 w. ago New Melania film features a 'priceless' Renoir painting on the wall of her office... but the actual artwork is in a gallery in London

In the past two years it has been loaned to the Musee d'Orsay in Paris and The National Gallery of Art in Washington - but has never graced the President's New York home.

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3 w. ago Mayfair art gallery linked to Princess Eugenie faces trial for breaching Russian sanctions 'after supplying luxury goods to Moscow collector'

Princess Eugenie is an associate director at the Hauser & Wirth gallery, which has been accused of breaching Russian sanctions over a painting. There is no suggestion the princess is involved.

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3 w. ago This iconic London art gallery will soon shut for an entire year

This iconic London art gallery will soon shut for an entire year  Time Out Worldwide

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Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait | National Portrait Gallery | Art in London  Time Out Worldwide

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