Mason Currey

Bio

Mason Currey is the author of the Daily Rituals books—Daily Rituals: How Artists Work (2013) and Daily Rituals: Women at Work (2019)—featuring brief profiles of the day-to-day work lives of more than 300 brilliant minds. His new book, Making Art and Making a Living, looks at how anyone ever afforded to be an artist, with stories of day jobs, patronage arrangements, get-rich-quick schemes, and other artistic-financial misadventures through the ages. Currey lives in Los Angeles and writes Subtle Maneuvers, a twice-monthly newsletter on the creative process.