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HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
... provided a window on the world and an opportunity to make their concerns known.New York artist, Ray Johnson, is usually considered the father of “Correspondence Art”, another term for Mail Art. Mail Art had antecedents in Fluxus and, before that, Dada. In the beginning, it was a one-to-one network – each transaction or trade was with one other person and the network expanded by the exchange...
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... Max Bucaille (1906-1992), and Gerome Kamrowski (1914-2004). Those a generation later, including Ray Johnson (1927-1995), Bruce Conner (1933-2008), and Jess (1923-2004), each separately rediscovered Ernst, specifically choosing to use this type of collage as a jumping off point towards other conceptual ends."
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Blogging Along Tobacco Road (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
~wings of flight~OpheliaRay Johnsonsea somewheresaid last good byea parti-colored lineof letter-leavesis stretched intothe sunsetthe verses cover cloudsin close printOpheliathe name of primal yearningfor thosewho drifting in the stream of agescreate a patch of lightwith brush of solar beamat School of CorresponDANCEbits of mailare sent to deathand bear triangle stampRay Johnsonwaves...
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Strange Justice (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
... Deandre S. Williams, was shot and killed near the Bachman Lake area in 1994. Another man, Robert Ray Johnson, was permanently disabled in the same shooting. Williams said an eyewitness and gun residue on Miles' hands prove his guilt. But Miles, 34, who was on probation for drug possession when he was arrested, was tested for gunpowder residue after he was handcuffed – and the levels...
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FLUX-USA (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
... works, thoughts and influences of John Cage, as well as an extensive presentation of the work of Ray Johnson, are two major features of the autumn programme at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona (MACBA). Cage and Johnson, both American artists, knew each other during their lifetimes. Although independently curated, the decision to show the two exhibitions in the Museum at...
