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Vol. 6, No. 4 (September 1983). Offset. 11"x8 1/2". Pages<br />

numbered 101-136. Bill Gaglione (USA) and Lon Spiegelman (USA) listed as<br />

"Contributing Editors, <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong>' on the masthead. "Letters to Umbrella," includes<br />

correspondence from Carol Stetser (USA) and Carlo Pittore (USA). "<strong>Art</strong>ists'<br />

Publications" reviews "<strong>Art</strong>ist Postage Stamps 83," by Patrick Beilman (aka<br />

Cowtown <strong>Art</strong>, USA) and "About Vile," by Anna Banana (Canada). "<strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> is<br />

'Not' Correspondence <strong>Art</strong>," by Robert C. Morgan (USA). <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> "News"<br />

mentions On Spiegelman (USA), Wally Darnell (Saudi Arabia), Mark Wamaling<br />

(USA). Steve Random (USA), Carol Pittore (USA), Rockola (USA), Fomt (aka<br />

Daniel Johnson, North Ireland), et al. <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> exhibition, project and publication<br />

opportunities. "Rubber Stamp News" mentions Betty Ruth Curtiss (USA),<br />

Dadaland (aka Bill Gaglione, USA), Leavenworth Jackson (USA), Darlene<br />

Altschul (USA), et al.<br />

Vol. 6, No. 5 (November 1983). Offset. 11"x8 1/2". Pages numbered<br />

138-172. "Letters to Umbrella," prints a rebuttal by Vittore Baroni (Italy) to a<br />

previous article by Robert C. Morgan (USA). "Although mail <strong>Art</strong> is alive and well<br />

and expanding, there is a general tendency in many shows and projects to call<br />

for an 'end to <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong>,' of to make a show 'about' mail <strong>Art</strong> rather than 'of' <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong>.<br />

While longtime mail artists are beginning to meet in person and think of taking<br />

steps further on the path opened by the network activities, this may be a sign<br />

that something is changing." "PROFILE: Maurizio Nannucci and Zona, Florence."<br />

"<strong>Art</strong> People in the News" mentions G. X. Jupitter-Larsen (Canada), c. Mehrl<br />

Bennett (USA), Karl Kempton (USA), Scott Helmes (USA), E. F. Higgins III<br />

(USA), K. S. Ernst (USA), John Furnival (USA), Rimma and Valery Gerlovin<br />

(USA), Byron Black (USA), et al. <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> "News" mentions <strong>Art</strong>pool (Hungary),<br />

Ray Johnson (USA), Mark Bloch (USA), Bill Whorrall (USA), et al. <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong><br />

exhibition, project and publication opportunities.<br />

Vol. 7, No. 1 (January 1984). Color Photocopy and Offset. 11"x8<br />

1/2". 35 pages. Bill Gaglione (USA) and Lon Spiegelman (USA) listed as<br />

"Contributing Editors, <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong>." <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> "News" mentions Guy Bleus (Belgium),<br />

<strong>Art</strong>pool (Hungary), Dr. Ronny Cohen (USA), Mike Bidner (Canada), Géza<br />

Perneczky (West Germany), et al. "<strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> <strong>Periodicals</strong>." <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> exhibition,<br />

project and publication opportunities.<br />

Vol. 7, No. 2 (March 1984). Offset. 11"x8 1/2". Pages numbered 37-<br />

52. "Special Exclusive <strong>Mail</strong>art Edition," edited by Lon Spiegelman (USA). Later<br />

retracted after a dispute with regular editor, Judith A. Hoffberg. Issue mainly<br />

devoted to the Franklin Furnace/Dr. Ronny Cohen controversy over the curators'<br />

(Cohen) neglect in displaying all contributions to a <strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> show at Franklin<br />

Furnace, New York City. Letter by Matthew Hogan , Curator of Collections,<br />

Franklin Furnace. "Statement by The panel read by Cracker Jack Kid, to the<br />

February 24th <strong>Art</strong>ists Talk on <strong>Art</strong> Gathering, 22 Wooster Street, New York City<br />

1984." "<strong>Mail</strong> <strong>Art</strong> may have appeared formless, perhaps without leadership or a

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