PLEASE SEND TO REAL LIFE: Ray Johnson Photographs reveals the “career in photography” that occupied the artist in the last three years of his life. The Morgan Library & Museum June 21, 2022 ...

The reclusive Pop-era collagist, who committed suicide in 1995, felt a deep kinship with Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia, and Andy Warhol, among others. (Johnson wa ...

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 ...

The artist Ray Johnson in 1955. In SoHo, he bedecked his friend Suzi Gablik, an art historian and critic, with his “moticos,” as he called his collages, turning her into a gallery of sorts ...

Suicide is always a tragedy. Yet in the mysterious case of artist Ray Johnson, who jumped off a bridge into Long Island’s Sag Harbor on Friday the 13th in January 1995, the act also was a final ...

In January 1995, Johnson killed himself by jumping off a bridge in Sag Harbor, drowning in the water below. “I think Ray will become famous after his death, because he won’t be around to ...

One could approach the Art Institute of Chicago’s “Ray Johnson c/o” in that way, but it would be a pity, because Johnson lived his entire life as an enormous artwork, encompassing all that ...

Oh, right: Ray Johnson. 1948: While at the Summer Institute of Black Mountain College (a famous residency), Johnson creates the props for a production of Erik Satie’s Ruse of Medusa.

Even if you can’t name a single work by the late artist Ray Johnson—even if you can’t picture one—you may have heard some variation on his pranks. They’ve become something of art-world lore.

Ray Johnson. Untitled (After 63 02 20), 1963. Gift of the William S. Wilson Collection of Ray ... More Ray Johnson ...