In the 1960s -- that fiery profusion of art and social change -- frustration with fine art's commercialization prompted a small group of artists to abandon the galleries in favor of a most unlikely ...

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 ...

The United States Postal Service is in crisis: hemorrhaging money, searching for ways to fix the situation and being blocked by Congress, inching towards privatization. What can any of us do about?

While many are unaware of the existence of mail art, two Ohio State alumni decided to dedicate the beginning of their post-graduation lives to creating a documentary based on the medium. Mail art, ...

Jennifer Celio, "Father" (2020) (image courtesy Long Beach Museum of Art and Intertrend Communications) Already a member? Sign in here. We rely on readers like you to fund our journalism. If you value ...

Mail art, as Dean Brown explains, became a big deal in the late 1960s and the 1970s, a populist movement based on sending small-scale artworks — drawings, paintings, graphic designs and more — through ...

When a pandemic pushed us into varying degrees of isolation, human connection became for many tenuous, elusive and distant. Kelly Lindner knows she lacks the power to resolve the issue single-handedly ...

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 ...

Beginning in the 1960s, artists from around the world looked to the postal system as an alternative means of producing, distributing, and receiving art. Mail art (alternatively called “correspondence ...

One artist finds empowerment in being an artist in action. Christina Massey, a Brooklyn-based artist, is getting creative to safely collaborate with other artists in a time of social-distancing -- and ...

So many artists, so many stamps, such a dope scope of envelopes roping hope together: Hope of sharing art beyond one’s own burg – and beyond the sometimes restrictive bounds of the hightoned gallery ...