Mailing a letter has taken on a certain charm in an era of instant communication, and so Performa’s revival of underground Pop artist Ray Johnson’s mail art project, called the “New York ...

He corresponded at length with the Pop artist James Rosenquist and with Karl Wirsum, ... “Rimbaud,” 1957–60, from “Ray Johnson c/o” at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Active from the late 1940s up until his death in 1995, Johnson provoked Pop Art into being and followed the Dada tradition of using collage and cutouts as a satirical force to poke fun at society ...

In January 1995, Johnson killed himself by jumping off a bridge in Sag Harbor, drowning in the water below. “I think Ray will become famous after his death, because he won’t be around to ...

His reworking of pop icons like Elvis Presley anticipates pop art. He beat Warhol to that punch. Yet Johnson stubbornly refused to be pegged to any one impulse, philosophy, or movement.

The Pop artist spent his final years taking pictures and kept them a secret. Dozens are on view in a revelatory show at the Morgan Library & Museum. By Martha Schwendener The American artist and ...

Ray Johnson's “Untitled (Ray Johnson’s Silhouette and Wood, Stehli Beach)” (Autumn 1992). ... Pop Art and other macho midcentury movements, he offered something much humbler: ...

Suicide is always a tragedy. Yet in the mysterious case of artist Ray Johnson, who jumped off a bridge into Long Island’s Sag Harbor on Friday the 13th in January 1995, the act also was a final ...

Alex Sainsbury has made an astute choice, opening his beautiful, not-for-profit gallery in Spitalfields with the first British exhibition of the important but overlooked American pop artist Ray ...

You don't just learn how to draw a bunny in "How to Draw a Bunny," the delightful, unabashedly celebratory documentary about the life and times of the late artist Ray Johnson, you learn a few ...

The reclusive Pop-era collagist, who committed suicide in 1995, felt a deep kinship with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Andy Warhol, among others. (Johnson was mugged in ...