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 ...

Invited to exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Ray Johnson shared the curator’s address with some of his closest friends. “Send letters, post cards, drawings and objects,” he ...

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 ...

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 ...