Rauschenberg gave artists an enormous sense of freedom and permission to create anything they could dream of, so long as they were earnest in their ideas and execution.
Robert Rauschenberg
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The Chance Meeting of Robert Rauschenberg and Coho Salmon in a Dream
Everything connects; you just have to find out how.
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Artists Quarantine With Their Art Collections
“Looking at the imagery is like reviewing a memory bank.”
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A 3D Experience Recreates Merce Cunningham’s Most Famous Dances
On the centennial of the legendary dancer and choreographer’s birth, the documentary Cunningham pays tribute to his work and philosophy.
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Robert Rauschenberg and the Men on the Moon
Rauschenberg was among the artists invited by NASA to attend the launch of Apollo 11, the spaceflight that landed two Americans on the moon 50 years ago this month.
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Hoarding and Spending at Art Basel Miami Beach
After Safariland, if you need to convince yourself that the art world isn’t entirely in money’s thrall, you’d want to be anywhere but here.
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Artist Auctions a Rauschenberg Print Completely Covered in Ads
After selling each square inch for $92.59, Nikolas Bentel decided to auction off “The Erased Rauschenberg” (2018), ads and all.
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Artist Sells Off Ad Space on a Rauschenberg to Destroy It
Nikolas Bentel is selling off sections of a Rauschenberg artwork as advertising space in a critique of the art market.
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Twenty-Six Thoughts on Robert Rauschenberg
MoMA’s retrospective runs from stench and perfection to perfection and putrefaction.
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The Untold Story of Rauschenberg’s Earliest Champion
Among the reigning patriarchs of the New York School, the young Rauschenberg found his greatest and earliest champion in the painter Jack Tworkov.
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Books, Wefts, and Black Lives Matter at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The rewards of what is in plain sight far outweigh what is tucked away.
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Rebooting a Landmark Series of Art and Technology Collaborations
The first large-scale art and technology collaborations that occurred in the United States are not as legendary as, for example, the 9th Street Show that launched the New York School of Abstract Expressionism, but they should be.