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How Painting Happens (and why it matters) – A Times Book of the Year 2024 OG25 humour and strangeness' ‘Highly recommended’Painting is an almost inconceivably ancient activity that remains vigorously alive in the twenty first century. Every successful painting creates a new world, which we inhabit for as long as we care to look at it. Paintings can incorporate profound ideas and paradoxes that can be grasped without words. For those who dedicate themselves to it, the art of painting can become an all consuming, lifelong obsession. It is a subject on which painters