Mail art is a curious way to get to know someone’s work. Instantly you feel more comfortable when you receive it — at work, in your own space — and you forced to deal with its physicality, often ...
The front and back of a 1929 postcard sent by Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla to his friend Fortunato Depero in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood (464 West 23rd Street). (via "Retrospections on ...
In the 1960s -- that fiery profusion of art and social change -- frustration with fine art's commercialization prompted a small group of artists to abandon the galleries in favor of a most unlikely ...
Mail art began in the 1960s with Ray Johnson, who used the postal system to send collages, drawings, and notes as a form of artistic exchange. He founded the New York Correspondence School to ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The papers of rubberstamp and artistamp artist, performance artist, collector of mail art, and fine arts librarian John Held, Jr. date from ...