Never-before-seen photographs by Ray Johnson—the famously unfamous artist known for Neo-Dada collages, prankster performances, and inventive mail artworks—made in the final years before his death will ...
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Some exhibitions are really just about the art — the bold painting, the clever sculpture, the mind-bending installation — and you needn’t really think too much about the artist who made the work or ...
Ray Johnson in his Suffolk Street apartment, 1965 (photo by William S. Wilson. Courtesy Ray Johnson Estate. Courtesy Richard L. Feigen & Co.) As a result, the very name “Ray” — as he was ...
The artist you meet in a small, revelatory show is quite different from the one known for mail art and his later gritty samplings of popular culture. By Roberta Smith In 1949, a young American artist ...
The works on view were donated to the Morgan Library & Museum in 2019. Ray Johnson with his work Please Send To Real Life and camera in mirror, 23 December 1994. The Morgan Library& Museum, Gift of ...
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 ...
Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art. Always one to throw sand in the gears of art-world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either ...
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 ...