03/21/201003/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays Jas. W. Felter: Artistamp Activist Jas. W. Felter:Artistamp Activist Born near the foothills of New York States’ Catskill Mountains in 1943, James Felter was introduced to painting […]
03/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays The Formidable Blue Stamp of Yves Klein The Formidable Blue Stamp of Yves Klein by John Held, Jr. My intention is to trace the history of one of the […]
03/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays Learning from Friedman: Ken Friedman’s Rubber Stamp Activity. Learning from Friedman Ken Friedman’s Rubber Stamp Activity. John Held, Jr. Ken Friedman (American, 1949- ) was an important connection between Fluxus, […]
03/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays May Wilson: Grandmother to the Avant-Garde May Wilson: Grandmother to the Avant-Garde by John Held, Jr. In 1995, on the 90th anniversary of her birth, the Baltimore Museum of […]
03/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays Notes Toward a History of Artistamps Notes Toward a History of Artistamps John Held, Jr. The first exhibition of artist postage stamps occurred in 1974, when James Warren Felter […]
03/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays Illogical as an Instructive Process: an Interview with Ray Johnson Illogical as an Instructive Process: an Interview with Ray Johnson The interview took place on December 2, 1977, at the Mid-York Library […]
03/21/201003/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays Robert Watts: The Complete Postage Stamp Sheets, 1961-1986 Robert Watts: The Complete Postage Stamp Sheets, 1961-1986 by John Held, Jr. There can be considerable argument on who created the first […]
03/21/201003/21/20102010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps, Essays The TAM Rubberstamp- Archive of Ruud Janssen The TAM Rubberstamp- Archive of Ruud Janssen by John Held, Jr. It has been sixteen years since Ruud Janssen became aware of […]
03/15/201003/15/2010Essays, Upcoming Exhibition Greetings from Daddaland: The Fake Picabia Brothers Search Sources in the Scrap Heap of the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Greetings from Daddaland: The Fake Picabia Brothers Search Sources in the Scrap Heap of the Twentieth Century Avant-Garde By John Held, Jr. […]
02/09/201008/12/2011Essays Yvelyne Wood’s Auschwitz by Professor Donald Kuspit Yvelyne Wood’s Auschwitz by Professor Donald Kuspit State University of New York at Stony Brook … what does statistical exactitude mean, where […]
11/02/200903/16/20132009-11-GEORGE MACIUNAS 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works, Essays NOTES on No Smoking Looking back on his time in Fluxus, German artist Tomas Schmit made the following remarks about Fluxus founder George Maciunas: “… an […]
10/29/200910/19/20102008-02 Fluxus: To George With Love, 2009-11-GEORGE MACIUNAS 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works, Essays Notes on Soho And a Reminiscence By Hollis Melton “Although once thought as a ‘movement’, with all the appropriate manifestos and positions, Fluxus is not a movement as such, but a […]
10/01/200911/20/20092009-11-GEORGE MACIUNAS 7 Paintings from the 1950s and Graphic Works, Essays MY SON By Leokadija Maciunas My son was a quiet child from birth. He neither screamed nor cried at all, but since the nanny who was also […]
09/19/200911/20/20092009-09 Ken Friedman – 99 Events, Essays KEN FRIEDMAN: EVENT, IDEA AND INQUIRY By Carolyn Barnes KEN FRIEDMAN: EVENT, IDEA AND INQUIRY By: Carolyn Barnes Chance and opportunity led Ken Friedman to become an artist. Though he had […]
09/01/200911/20/20092009-09 Ken Friedman – 99 Events, Essays Exhibition Notes: Ken Friedman – 99 Events Ken Friedman Notes Ken Friedman began conducting what he would retrospectively realize were ‘events’ before he was aware of Fluxus. Even at […]
05/07/200905/17/20152009-05 Do-It-Yourself: Group Exhibition, Essays Do It Yourself By Ken Friedman Do It Yourself By Ken Friedman To be is to do – Heidegger To do is to be – Sartre Do be […]
05/05/200901/07/20102009-05 Do-It-Yourself: Group Exhibition, Essays Art from Letters and Paper By Thomas Kellein on George Maciunas Maciunas’ efforts to improve the world by finding new economies in various realms also extended into his daily life. He took a […]
05/02/200905/17/20152009-05 Do-It-Yourself: Group Exhibition, Essays Yoko Ono “Grapefruit” at Stendhal Gallery Yoko Ono "Grapefruit" The Brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include […]
05/01/200911/18/20092009-05 Do-It-Yourself: Group Exhibition, Essays DADA TO DIY: The Rise of Alternative Cultures in the Twentieth Century By John Held Jr. I first read of the late art collector Jean Brown in a 1976 article, The Preservation of the Avant-Garde. Critic Katherine Kuh […]
06/15/200812/08/20092008-06 George Maciunas- Prefabricated Building System, Essays Julia E. Robinson: Maciunas’ Models Thought in Three Dimensions You see, the reason I am so concerned with [functionalism] is that that’s an architect’s training. I mean, that’s the way the […]