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Painters & sculptors

Faith Ringgold’s exuberant pragmatism
Portable paintings—and a very expensive mistake for artists
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Mason Currey
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Melly Shum Forever
“Every city needs a monument to the problem of hating one’s job.”
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Mason Currey
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Living with art stops one wilting!
Letters from the late Austrian artist Maria Lassnig
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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.”
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Mason Currey
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The mantra issue
Smooth as butter
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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"
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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
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Mason Currey
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Three tales of creative slowness
“A week is nothing, one thinks one can do so much in a week”
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Mason Currey
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“Think today, done tomorrow”
Martin Kippenberger’s extravagant life
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Mason Currey
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Claes Oldenburg was always starting from scratch
“It’s terrifying to do it this way, but it’s always a great pleasure if it works.”
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Mason Currey
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Seven lessons in being an artist from Duncan Hannah
From the late painter’s irresistible journals of 1970s New York
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Mason Currey
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The artist Charles Ray walks to Burger King every day
“Not to eat but to think.”
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Mason Currey
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