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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 ...
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.
One could approach the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Ray Johnson c/o” in that way, but it would be a pity, because Johnson lived his entire life as an enormous artwork, encompassing all that ...
More than 200 never-before-seen photographs from Mail Art founder Ray Johnson are on view at the Morgan Library.
Robert Rauschenberg called his friend Ray Johnson an artist who existed in “the gap between art and life.” Doesn’t sound like the greatest of compliments coming from a best friend — but ...
When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.
Art review - an exhibition of collage and other work by the prolific artist Ray Johnson at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Johnson's most physically substantial works are the collages he made from the 1960s onward, as chunky as mosaics and clotted with visual and verbal information pulled from pop culture, advertising ...