Here is a great way to start what could be a difficult year off right: The 31-day art diet for January, 2024, courtesy of The Guardian . Being a teensy weensy bit hung over from New Year’s Eve but not wanting to waste an opportunity to share this positive vibe, I commend the article to your reading, as I quote shamelessly from it and then call it a day. J anuary is the cruellest month. TS Eliot was wrong. A full 31 days with the sad tinsel of Christmas a departing memory in the winter darkness and February stretching rigidly before you. Even willing yourself to go out for a walk can sometimes feel heroic. This year’s cultural diet, rapidly becoming a tradition for Observer readers , will speed you on your way. Here is a work of art for every day of the month – to lift your spirits, shift your mood, deepen your thinking. Everything here reaches the mind and heart through the eyes. And some of it does so with fast-acting effects. Painting , surely the most open and imme...