Who You Calling Non-Essential?

Remember that Singapore Sunday Times poll asking its readers to rate how important certain professions are against each other? The one that rated artists the least important of all?

Over in Spain, they've been conducting a controlled experiment on what life would be without artists. Here's what you get when, to restore a classic painting, instead of an artist, you hire a more essential worker —

— in this case, a guy who varnishes furniture for a living.