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Ray Johnson

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A Portrait of Ray Johnson in His Own Words

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 27, 2018November 28, 2018

Soberscove Press has released nearly 200 pages of interviews with renowned mail artist Ray Johnson, and a preview excerpt can be found here.

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The Unknowable Ray Johnson

Avatar photo by Edward M. Gómez September 30, 2017September 30, 2017

When Ray Johnson killed himself at the age of 67, the air of mystery surrounding his personality, life, and art only thickened.

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The Tactile Temptation of Ray Johnson’s Assemblages

Avatar photo by Megan N. Liberty May 26, 2017May 26, 2017

Ray Johnson’s exhibition at Matthew Marks is proof that the eccentric collage and mail artist’s works were never meant for gallery walls.

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Blurred Boundaries and Other Connections

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli October 22, 2016October 21, 2016

A mix of blue-chip names and energetic younger artists on the Lower East Side is further evidence of the increasingly blurred boundaries among Manhattan’s art districts.

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See the Smithsonian Archive’s Collection of Artists’ Handwritten Letters

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne June 8, 2016June 9, 2016

Whatever skeptics may say about the pseudoscience of graphology (handwriting analysis), it’s hard to deny that handwriting expresses feeling and style — especially, in many cases, when it’s the handwriting of an artist. Georgia O’Keeffe’s bold, squiggly lines and lack of punctuation ignored conventions of grammar and penmanship.

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The Vast Possibilities of Tiny Collage and Assemblage

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern January 15, 2016January 19, 2016

You might want to bring your reading glasses to The Tiny Picture Show at Pavel Zoubok Gallery, because some of the suckers on view are really tiny.

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Cut, Paste, and Blossom

by Anthony Cudahy September 21, 2015September 21, 2015

In 1936, the Museum of Modern Art showcased a project by the famed photographer Edward Steichen that featured work not in his expected medium, but Delphiniums he had bred himself at Umpawaug, a farm he owned in Connecticut.

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I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson

Avatar photo by Tim Keane August 22, 2015August 27, 2015

Ray Johnson disappeared near Sag Harbor just over twenty years ago. But if we refer to the artist by the art, he’s still among us.

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Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli August 15, 2015August 18, 2015

There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.

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10 Stellar Culture Documentaries the Oscars Snubbed

Avatar photo by Melissa Stern February 19, 2015February 21, 2015

Here is my roundup, not only of films from the last year but of the past decade. These are films that you may have missed in theatres, never saw because they got a one week showing in NYC and LA and nowhere else, or that were simply too far below the radar.

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Man of Letters: Ray Johnson Art in Motion

by Frances Richard July 26, 2014July 30, 2014

While the increased availability of Ray Johnson’s letters, notes, and statements subtilizes our understanding of this legendarily well-connected yet enigmatic artist, his flattened logorrheia is also just fun to read.

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Underrecognized, Bowie’s Glam Drives a Retrospective of 1970s Art

by Mark Sheerin February 13, 2013February 17, 2013

BRIGHTON, UK — For several decades now we have been laboring under the impression David Bowie is a pop star. But a new show at Tate Liverpool puts Bowie where he firmly belongs, as a central figure in art. It proves the pioneering musician is also a muse, a performance artist, and a conceptualist all rolled into one.

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