Since we sent out a request for mail art, we’ve received 27 mail art submissions from five countries (Belgium, Canada, Spain, the United States and Uruguay) and nine US states (Arkansas, California, ...

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Mailing a letter has taken on a certain charm in an era of instant communication, and so Performa’s revival of underground Pop artist Ray Johnson’s mail art project, called the “New York School of ...

Depending on who your source is, the practice of mail art began in 1916 when Marcel Duchamp sent a series of artsy postcards to his neighbors ... or it really began later, in the 1950s, with American ...

Say your cousin, the one who's always been a bit weird, affixes sufficient postage to one of her favorite sneakers and sends it to you through the postal system. Is that mail art? Say you get a letter ...

A strong whiff of nostalgia escaped from the mailbox the other day: There was a postcard inside. Of course, it wasn’t a picture of the Eiffel Tower or Grand Canyon. When did anyone last travel ...

For all the ways in which the lockdown era has taken a toll on artistic production, it has also yielded some scrappy, alternative forms of making—and revived old ones. Months of quarantine has ushered ...

Anna Banana, aka Anna Lee Long “Banana Cards” to Lucy Lippard, ca. 1970s. Lucy R. Lippard papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Credit: Lucy R. Lippard papers, Archives of ...

Around the time visual artist Alicia Starr Ryan retired 10 years ago, she was introduced to an organization she's remained a participant with ever since: the International Union of Mail-Artists. "A ...

As Covid-19 shuttered physical art spaces, many museums, fairs and galleries quickly focused their energies to translate art viewing onto digital platforms. Yet some artists have turned to a decidedly ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X From 1943 to 1944 my great-grandmother wrote letters to her son, a paratrooper in the 101st ...

Receiving yet another email may inspire a feeling dread, but think about the absolute joy of opening a physical mailbox and finding a handcrafted card inside. This weekend, relish in the delight of ...