Eight artists and writers and friends of Ray Johnson contribute personal reminiscences to coincide with the Johnson exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This review of "Ray Johnson:Correspondences" at the Whitney Mueum of American Art describes Johnson's collages as masterworks. "The visual elements they incorporated were equally diverse: pieces of photographs, magazine clips, commercial logos, abstract shapes, cartoons and above all, words: jokes, puns, anagrams, song lyrics, poetry, nonsense syllables, exclamations, dedications and lists of names of artists and actors, social luminaries and friends. The results amount to a consummate insider, a figure who was at once everywhere and nowhere in the art world, and who used his work to spin a personal myth." The Sackner Archive contains a collage of Johnson's. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

This review of Ray Johnson's exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art describes him as "the irrascible American artist who sent his comic strip-style work in chain leters to friends and refused to exhibit in his lifetime, gets his first show." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

A comparative review of the mail art of Ray Johnson on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the folk art of Nellie Mae Rowe at the American Folk Art Museum points out their similarities in wanting "to communicate with a larger world and their urge to stay inside a small one, peopled only by their private thoughts and apparitions." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.