Today is Blue Monday, the day which is thought to be the most depressing of the whole year, as January struggles along and the Northern Hemisphere at remains shrouded in wintry darkness and cold. Today we’re thinking of a new show at Bethlem Museum of the Mind, entitled The Anatomy of Melancholy, which takes its cue from a seventeenth-century best-selling book of the same name which explores the impact of nature versus nurture on human mental health. The London exhibition furthers these enquiries with the work of artists spanning the 1600s to the present day—including this 2010 work by George Harding.
