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Please Return To: Mail Art from the Ray Johnson Archive

“Artist Ray Johnson’s  (1927-1995) body of work spans many media, but he is best known for his  intricate and complex collages. His mail art project, The New York Correspondance [sic] School, utilized the postal system as a means of   dissemination, circumventing the commercial art world. In his life,   Johnson was close to key figures including Andy Warhol, Chuck Close, Jim  Rosenquist and Jasper Johns, and he is associated with several   significant art movements. Johnson continued to produce work until his   suicide in 1995, and is the subject of the cult classic documentary film  How to Draw a Bunny. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions, and is held in major public and private collections. ��”

Prentice Art

NY Times - Review: Recalling Ray Johnson, a Pioneer of Mail Art

I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson

artnet

The Paris Review: Please Forward Contents

2011 January: Ray Johnson, 2014 May: The Sinking Bear & Ray Johnson’s A Book About Death

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“I just do art because I’m ugly and there’s nothing else for me to do.” ― Andy Warhol

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‘After the party’ by Andy Warhol, 1979

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Andy Warhol Skull, 1976 183 x 203 x 3,5 cm, Acryl

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Keith Haring and Andy Warhol, 1986 (x)

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Keith Haring (May 4, 1958 - February 16, 1990) “I don’t think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.”

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Keith Haring in front of his Collingwood Mural (1984).

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Untitled, 1982 Keith Haring

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Jean-Michel Basquiat drawing on Keith Haring’s shirt.

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Untitled, 1988 Keith Haring

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Keith Haring, “The Tree of Monkeys”, 1984 

acrylic on canvas. 

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A letter from Keith Haring, to a young Basquiat

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“I don’t think about art when I’m working. I try to think about life.”

Untitled 1981 , Jean-Michel Basquiat

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JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT

UNTITLED, 1983-1984

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Jean-Michel Basquiat - Crown, 1983. 

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Duchamp Playing Chess with a Nude (Eve Babitz), Pasadena Art Museum, 1963 – Julian Wasser