Category: 2010-04 Greetings from Daddaland: Fluxus, Mail Art and Rubber Stamps

I’ve Ripened to the Genius of George Maciunas By John Held, Jr. I’ve ripened to the genius of George Maciunas. It wasn’t […]

The Treatment of Vision: Arman’s Cachets Introduction The cachets of Arman, his self-described rubber stamp works from the mid-to-late fifties, have been […]

Before Punk and Zines: Bay Area Dada by John Held, Jr. Buying art is usually a straight forward proposition. You go to […]

Bunny Dead: The Mysterious Life and Death of Ray Johnson and the Rise of the New York Correspondance School of Art On January […]

The Caustic Jelly Post Portraits of buZ blurr In the April 13, 1972, issue of Rolling Stone, then one of the most […]

Guglielmo Achille Cavellini(1914-1990-2014) There is no artist in modern times, perhaps in all of time, who tried to insure (some would say […]

Jas. W. Felter:Artistamp Activist Born near the foothills of New York States’ Catskill Mountains in 1943, James Felter was introduced to painting […]

The Formidable Blue Stamp of  Yves Klein by John Held, Jr. My intention is to trace the history of one of the […]

Learning from Friedman Ken Friedman’s Rubber Stamp Activity. John Held, Jr. Ken Friedman (American, 1949- ) was an important connection between Fluxus, […]

May Wilson: Grandmother to the Avant-Garde by John Held, Jr. In 1995, on the 90th anniversary of her birth, the Baltimore Museum of […]

Notes Toward a History of Artistamps John Held, Jr. The first exhibition of artist postage stamps occurred in 1974, when James Warren Felter […]

Illogical as an Instructive Process: an Interview with Ray Johnson The interview took place on December 2, 1977, at the Mid-York Library […]

Robert Watts: The Complete Postage Stamp Sheets, 1961-1986 by John Held, Jr. There can be considerable argument on who created the first […]

The TAM Rubberstamp- Archive of Ruud Janssen by John Held, Jr. It has been sixteen years since Ruud Janssen became aware of […]