New York's Most Famous Artist You've Never Heard Of
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All Of It
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WNYC Studios
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audio
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Publication Date |
Jun 17, 2022
Episode Duration |
00:15:26

The late artist Ray Johnson is best known for spreading his multimedia collages through the U.S Postal Service. However throughout his career, he was thought of as, "New York's most famous unknown artist." Recently, 137 disposable cameras Johnson used in his final years were discovered, revealing thousands of photographs of new collages never seen before. The Morgan Library & Museum will display some of these photographs, alongside some of his mail art, in a new exhibition called, Please Send to Real Life: Ray Johnson Photographs, which opens today. Curator Joel Smith joins us to talk about the discovery, the mystery of Ray Johnson, and why his legacy and work matters.

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