BUFFALO, Minn. — When a beat-up, World War II-era Stearman biplane was in need of a good home in 1980, aviator Ray Johnson decided to take it in. "It was literally in our house, growing up," said ...

"Ray Johnson, considered the progenitor of Correspondence art, blurred the boundaries between life and art, authorship and intimacy. The defining nature of his work were his letters (often both visual ...