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The truest thing I've ever read about making art
From the British painter and sculptor Maggi Hambling
Mason Currey
May 15
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Three tales of creative slowness
“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”
Mason Currey
Apr 3
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“Think today, done tomorrow”
Martin Kippenberger’s extravagant life
Mason Currey
Sep 19, 2022
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Seven lessons in being an artist from Duncan Hannah
From the late painter’s irresistible journals of 1970s New York
Mason Currey
Jun 27, 2022
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Wayne Thiebaud on finding “charm and freedom” in your work
The late American painter on a delicious artistic breakthrough
Mason Currey
Feb 21, 2022
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Lawrence Weiner’s “very primitive existence”
The late artist on his daily routine circa 2010
Mason Currey
Dec 6, 2021
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“If work comes easily, it is suspect”
On David Salle, Janet Malcolm, and feeling like you’re doing everything wrong
Mason Currey
Jul 12, 2021
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Subtle inspiration: a grab bag
Kubrick’s willpower, Nicole Eisenman’s mantra, Baldessari’s “Johnisms,” and other nuggets from my move-scattered brain
Mason Currey
Jun 14, 2021
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Cézanne on the artistic temperament
“With only a little temperament, one can be a lot of painter.”
Mason Currey
Jun 7, 2021
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Niki de Saint Phalle’s secret jealous lover (her work)
"He is tall, elegant, and like Count Dracula wears a black cloak."
Mason Currey
Apr 19, 2021
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Alice Neel on painting, money, and Russian caviar
Notes on the brilliant and idiosyncratic American artist
Mason Currey
Apr 12, 2021
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The art life has always been a struggle
Fifteenth-century artist hijinks via Vasari’s Lives
Mason Currey
Mar 15, 2021
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