Zoom Meeting: Second Annual Ray Johnson (Un)Birthday Celebration

On Thursday, October 13 2022 from 6:30-7:30 pm, the second annual Ray Johnson (un)birthday celebration took place on Zoom. Co-hosted by Julie J. Thomson + Cary Loren.

This annual gathering of Ray Johnson fans and friends is held on or around Ray’s birthday to honor his life and art. (We know… he’d love to hate this!) 

Special guests this year were: John Walter, director of the award winning Ray Johnson biopic How to Draw a Bunny (2002), and Ellen Levy, Ray Johnson scholar and author of A Book About Ray (MIT press, 2024) and Criminal Ingenuity: Moore, Cornell, Ashbery, and the Struggle Between the Arts (Oxford, 2011). 

Watch the recording here.

Zoom Meeting: Ray Johnson (Un)Birthday Celebration

Hosted by Cary Loren and The Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Oak Park, Michigan
Thursday, October 14, 2021 

A Ray Johnson discussion and (Un)Birthday celebration held as an online Zoom Meeting to honor the artist. Cary Loren hosted the Meeting and John Held Jr., Richard Pieper, and Weslea Sidon joined me, since each of them interviewed Ray Johnson, and their interviews were published in That Was the Answer: Interviews with Ray Johnson, which I edited.

Recording available: thebookbeat.com/backroom/2021/10/03/ray-johnsons-unbirthday/