For those of us who are inveterate lovers of the fine arts , this recent article in The NY Times will add some uplift to the start of the New Year - https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/22/us/arts-health-effects-ucl-study.html?searchResultPosition=1
Posted by
Seattle, WA
17564 posts
Thanks, Steven!
We have tickets for two London plays in March, and will be visiting lots of museums there and in Italy. But we will have to find some options here in Seattle for January and February. ( We did go to the theatre in December, an excellent production of Cabaret! by the Gilbert and Sullivan Society. And my husband watches Metropolitan Opera on demand at home; does that count? (Probably not, as the study attributes part of the benefit to the social aspect of attending plays and concerts),
Posted by
Niagara, Ontario
1682 posts
I agree wholeheartedly, and hope to die peacefully in my sleep when I'm one hundred and thirty-three with Suo Gân playing in the background.
I don't know if all 'fine art' works for everyone the same way. While the Brueghel Boys and Ennio Morricone might extend my life another twenty years, there's a good chance that Pollock and LLoyd Webber would have the opposite effect.
Posted by
Berlin
3093 posts
Berlin has around 170 museums plus over 400 galleries - so you can live so much longer :-)
Posted by
L'Occitanie, France
10678 posts
Steve will give Methuselah some competition.
Posted by
Paris
10303 posts
While the Brueghel Boys and Ennio Morricone might extend my life another twenty years, there's a good chance that Pollock and LLoyd Webber would have the opposite effect.
Ha!! Excellent, Gundersen!