Interesting article re: history of mail art

Did you know that Ray Johnson used Add & Pass? Did you know about the queer community's involvement in mail art? Find out more interesting facts in this well-written article about the history of mail art. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/collaborativ...

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Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on June 4, 2020 at 4:13pm
Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on June 4, 2020 at 4:03pm

This video shows John Held, Jr and his archive (9 minutes). 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZsjJExwF_o

Same video accessible at IUOMA

https://iuoma-network.ning.com/video/kqed-spark-john-held-jr-1#

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on June 4, 2020 at 3:25pm

The Archives of American Art/Smithsonian has a treasure trove of mail art accessible online, including John Held, Jr.’s archive which covers 40 years. The links below can get you started.

For a listing of AAA.SI ’s holdings of John Held Jr’s Archive go to this link. It contains additional links .

https://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/john-held-papers-relating-to-mai...

Contents of Exhibition 

https://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibitions/pushing-the-envelope

See Contents of Exhibition on left-hand bar of this link. Each category listed has a separate page with images of the exhibition and a description of the items. Contents include mail art from Lenore Tawney (Amer.) and Lucy Lippard (Amer.)

Comment by Carmela Rizzuto on June 4, 2020 at 3:22pm

Thanks Momkat, I'll check it out.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on June 4, 2020 at 12:36pm

Thanks , Carmela, for posting this article...

And there may be some Ray Johnson "added" correspondence with Ruud Janssen ,

at the IUOMA group here : 

Ray Johnson (1927-1995)

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