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, ...

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 ...

The front and back of a 1929 postcard sent by Italian Futurist artist Giacomo Balla to his friend Fortunato Depero in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood (464 West 23rd Street). (via "Retrospections on ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...