According to a new study, people who are exposed to art on a weekly basis are about a year younger “biologically” than those exposed only once or twice per year A museum-goer looks at a Vincent van Gogh painting Thomas Lohnes / Getty Images If you actively listen to music, read a book or look at art at least once per week, you may live longer than those who don’t. That’s according to a new study published in the journal Innovation in Aging by researchers from the University College of London . The scientists analyzed blood samples and survey data from around 3,500 adults in the United Kingdom, and they found a correlation between arts and cultural engagement and slower epigenetic aging. “We found in this study that ‘arts engagement’ was related to 4 percent slower aging rates, meaning people were about a year younger, biologically, if they were regularly engaged in the arts,” lead study author Daisy Fancourt , a psychobiologist at the college, tells Morning Edition ’s Allison Aubrey.…