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Fifty Years Ago Today: Ray Johnson Reviews / Ray Johnson Reviewed
Ray Johnson REVIEWS REVIEWED Reviews of The Paper Snake by Ray Johnson, 1965 this is not a bk of poems to be “read” & then yell “GREAT! GREAT!” this is not a bk of poems. this is not a...
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Dorothy Iannone at the Berlinische Galerie: “This Sweetness Outside Of Time”
DOROTHY IANNONE: YOU WHO READ ME WITH PASSION NOW MUST FOREVER BE MY FRIENDS, a large compendium of exuberantly sexual and transgressive image+text works (drawings, paintings, artist’s books, and...
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“Projecting off the page into the world”: Dick Higgins publishes Ray Johnson
On the occasion of Siglio’s reprint of The Paper Snake by Ray Johnson and the publication of Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, we have launched a series of blog posts (Ray...
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Mail Art for Neophytes, Part One: An Initiation
On the occasion of Siglio’s publication of two Ray Johnson books, The Paper Snake and Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, we have created two blog posts designed as a...
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Mail Art for Neophytes, Part Two: Ray Johnson
On the occasion of Siglio’s publication of two Ray Johnson books, The Paper Snake and Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, we have created two blog posts designed as a...
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Ray Johnson: “something nearly always leads to an apparently disparate other.”
(Interview) Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994 BOMBLOG Human collage, mail art, and punning with the nothing master. CLIVE PHILLPOT and ELIZABETH ZUBA IN CONVERSATION Almost...
View ArticleEditor’ Note on A Picture Is Always a Book by Robert Seydel
BY LISA PEARSON Published in A Picture Is Always a Book: Further Writings from Book of Ruth by Robert Seydel, Siglio, 2014 Copyright 2014 Siglio Press. All rights reserved. A Picture Is Always a...
View ArticleRay Johnson, Ray Johnson, Billy Ray Johnson
For the occasion of our two Ray Johnson publications, The Paper Snake and Not Nothing: Selected Writings by Ray Johnson, 1954-1994, here is a curated list of Google Alert headlines on “Ray Johnson,”...
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“The Rabbits are the Stars”: Following the Hare in Robert Seydel’s Notebooks
Artist-poet Robert Seydel created many works using the persona of Ruth Greisman, whose emblem was the hare. The following is a constellation of notes and quotations from Seydel’s notebooks (which he...
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Dick Higgins: “A book is . . . a phenomenon of space and time and...
For the next blog post in our series on Ray Johnson, we have compiled a selection of quotations from Dick Higgins, founder of Something Else Press and original publisher of The Paper Snake by Ray...
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Tantra Song: Being in The Moment, Being Bright Blue
Last October, my four students and I were immersed in a semester long study of India, when I came across Tantra Song: Tantric Painting from Rajasthan. Immediately, I was struck by the beauty of these...
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“Things come out of Things”
As a collage artist, Robert Seydel forages, borrows, and transforms existing materials using a kind of “combinatorial magic.” A Picture Is Always a Book: Further Writings from Book of Ruth is...
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Here Comes Kitty: A continuous intimacy, in and beyond worldness
Richard Kraft and Ann Lauterbach in Conversation Forthcoming in Here Comes Kitty: A Comic Opera by Richard Kraft, Siglio, 2015. Copyright 2014. All rights reserved. AL: Is there a particular image,...
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A Meeting for Ray Johnson: The Minutes by Kevin Killian
On Saturday, November 22, the Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco hosted “A Meeting for Ray Johnson,” lovingly organized by Kevin Killian (who wrote an essay for Not Nothing: Selected Writings by...
View ArticleBill Berkson on Ray Johnson at The Meeting for Ray Johnson
On Saturday, November 22, The Kadist Art Foundation in San Francisco hosted “A Meeting for Ray Johnson.” These are Bill Berkson’s remarks. (Many thanks to Bill for letting us reproduce them here!)...
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“Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter” exhibition at Smith College
Artwork by Robert Seydel. Courtesy of the Estate of Robert Seydel. “Robert Seydel: The Eye in Matter” EXHIBITION DATES + VENUES SMITH COLLEGE NEILSON LIBRARY Northampton, Massachusetts, September...
View ArticleThe Feminist Portal: I – P
Navigate: A – H — Q – Z — to Curated Lists — to the Feminist Portal home page (Please note that in cases when linking to a particular work is not possible we have put the name of the...
View ArticleThe Feminist Portal: A – H
Navigate: I – P — Q – Z — to Curated Lists — to the Feminist Portal home page (Please note that in cases when linking to a particular work is not possible we have put the name of the...
View ArticleThe Feminist Portal: the heterodoxical, sprawling expanse of work by women
Navigate: A – H — I – P — Q – Z — to curated lists Female artists don’t just stay in their disciplines; we experience, we forage, we play. —Eileen Myles As a part of our advocacy for...
View ArticleRobert Seydel: Reading is always an intimate act
(Review) A Picture is Always a Book by Robert Seydel THE BELIEVER Assembled from Scraps: A Remembrance of Robert Seydel MATTHEW ERICKSON Originally published September 23, 2015 I first met the artist...
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