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Power doesn’t answer to the will
#Blocktober returns
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Mason Currey
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September 2023
Making art is like setting a trap
Philip Larkin on constructing “the device”
Sep 18
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Mason Currey
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Clarice Lispector’s paradoxical certainties
“What gets in the way of writing is having to use words.”
Sep 5
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Mason Currey
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August 2023
Living with art stops one wilting!
Letters from the late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig
Aug 21
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Mason Currey
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Van Gogh’s advice to a young artist
“In order to write a book, do a deed, paint a picture with some life in it, one has to be alive oneself.”
Aug 7
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Mason Currey
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July 2023
The mantra issue
Smooth as butter
Jul 24
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Mason Currey
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The artist’s life is the hardest life of all?
“Everything up in the air and working hopeless"
Jul 10
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Mason Currey
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June 2023
On searching for your own idea of quality
And what if it keeps changing?
Jun 26
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Mason Currey
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Chantal Akerman’s methodology
“If you start with no ideas, something happens.”
Jun 12
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Mason Currey
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May 2023
Samuel Johnson and the art of procrastination
Or how to write 1,800 words an hour
May 30
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Mason Currey
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The truest thing I've ever read about making art
From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling
May 15
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Henri Cole on the enemies within
And why they’re a gift
May 1
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