Box 1

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8 ½ x 14 inches. Drawing of chair, with text: “Ray Johnson DESIGN 2 Dover St. N.Y.C. / RE. 2-0375.”

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8 ½ x 14 inches. Offset printed flyer. Black mask, lips, and speech bubble, filled with stars. Title written on mask.

Scope and Contents 8 ½ x 13 ½ inches. Offset printed flyer. The concert presented work from a class in dance composition conducted by James Waring. Participants: Joan Baker, Diane di Prima, David Gordon, Peter Hartman, Fred Herko, Susan Kaufman, Timothy la Farge, Aileen Passloff, Corinne Robins, Valda Setterfield, and Janet Weinberger. During the 1950s and early 1960s, the Living Theatre was known for its cutting-edge theatrical productions where the boundaries between art and life were blurred as actors were...

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8 ½ x 12 ¾ inches. Offset printed flyer. Poster for concert at the Living Theatre, featuring music by Brecht, Cage, Hansen, Kaprow, Maxfield, McDowell, and Rauschenberg.

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A Ballet. 8 ½ x 14 inches. Offset printed flyer on yellow paper. Ballet by Fred Herko, danced by Carla Blank, Abigail Ewert, Terry Foreman, Fred Herko, Robert Holloway, Deborah Lee, Sandra Neels, Phoebe Neville, Elsene Sorrentino, Polly Stearns, and Adoratio Jones at Judson Memorial Church, NYC.

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8 ½ x 11 inches. Mimeograph flyer on green paper advertising Ray Johnson design. Printed text: “If tears are dropped on a dry piece of paper, stained with the juice of the petals of mallows or violets, they will change the paper to a permanently green colour.”