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Power doesn’t answer to the will
#Blocktober returns
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Mason Currey
10
September 2023
Making art is like setting a trap
Philip Larkin on constructing “the device”
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Mason Currey
37
Clarice Lispector’s paradoxical certainties
“What gets in the way of writing is having to use words.”
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Mason Currey
45
August 2023
Living with art stops one wilting!
Letters from the late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig
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Mason Currey
16
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.”
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Mason Currey
34
July 2023
The mantra issue
Smooth as butter
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Mason Currey
45
The artist’s life is the hardest life of all?
“Everything up in the air and working hopeless"
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Mason Currey
65
June 2023
On searching for your own idea of quality
And what if it keeps changing?
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Mason Currey
45
Chantal Akerman’s methodology
“If you start with no ideas, something happens.”
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Mason Currey
53
May 2023
Samuel Johnson and the art of procrastination
Or how to write 1,800 words an hour
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Mason Currey
77
The truest thing I've ever read about making art
From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling
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Mason Currey
77
Henri Cole on the enemies within
And why they’re a gift
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Mason Currey
26
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