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Global Relationships




Global Relationships


THE 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of A BOOK ABOUT DEATH – THE LAST WALTZ is the first exhibition in the Islip Art Museum's history to garner such wide acclaim and attention on the international stage.

This show is currently included in or under preparation to go to the permanent collections of more than a dozen museums all over the world.

In September 2019, THE 10th ANNIVERSARY EDITION of A BOOK ABOUT DEATH – THE LAST WALTZ honored two artists and their global art movement: Ray Johnson, the Father of Mail Art, who created a Mail Art network that ultimately reached further and deeper than he could ever have imagined, and Matthew Rose, who began the worldwide ABAD Project phenomenon in 2009.

This multimedia show also celebrated the thousands of international artists who have been brought together by this project over the past 10 years, and the creative bonds and mutual understanding that this project has spawned across the world.

A BOOK ABOUT DEATH Project takes its inspiration from the late, underground American artist Ray Johnson (1927 - 1995). Johnson’s unbound “book” of the same title was mailed to his New York Correspondence School “students” and included pages in his idiosyncratic style that were funny, sad and ironic “one-page essays” on death.

CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THIS SHOW ON THE ISLIP ART MUSEUM WEBSITE.
CLICK HERE FOR THE ABAD EXTERNAL WEBSITE.
CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THIS SHOW IN THE NEWS.
CLICK HERE TO SEE PHOTOS OF THE RECEPTION.
CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS OF THE RECEPTION.