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Article: Ray, we hardly knew you: seven years after his death at the age of 67, the influential, enigmatic artist Ray Johnson is the subject of an absorbing documentary film. (Film).(Movie Review)
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- Art in America
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- January 1, 2003
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How to Draw a Bunny, the recent documentary about artist Ray Johnson, opens with the most dramatic, sensational event of Johnson's life--his 1995 suicide by drowning in Sag Harbor, N.Y. This was also the moment when his art began to achieve the widespread recognition that it never quite found while the artist was still alive [see A.i.A., Oct. '95]. For a few minutes, with shots of newspaper clippings and allusions to the numerological oddities that clustered around Johnson's death, the film looks like it's going to be a tabloid-style crime investigation. Happily, that turns out not to be the case. Instead, viewers are treated to a thoughtful, at times moving, account of ...
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...When Ray Johnson committed suicide from eastern Long Island ... his entrance into the mainstream. But Johnson embraced the role of "famously unknown ... his collages and "correspondences", Johnson seems on the point of receiving the wider ...
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