Here’s a fun fact for anyone who ever made a middle-school Earth Day poster: Robert Rauschenberg made the very first one for the very first Earth Day, which was celebrated on April 22, 1970. Besides ...
The sheer breadth of exhibitions in this year’s Robert Rauschenberg Centennial—a global celebration marking 100 years since the artist’s birth on October 22, 1925—is testament to the constant ...
Installation view, ‘Robert Rauschenberg and Photography’ (all images courtesy of Pace/MacGill) It’s impossible to overstate the importance of photography throughout Rauschenberg’s career. His name ...
"Robert Rauschenberg: Fabric Works of the 1970s," now on view at the Menil Collection, may not be the exhibit that fans of the late, Texas-born artist are expecting. Senior curator Michelle White says ...
Historically, Rauschenberg got us from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art—one of the greatest stylistic leaps ever—by introducing those bits of the readymade and the already-seen into the meaty ...
Robert Rauschenberg, whose use of odd and everyday articles earned him a reputation as a pioneer in pop art but whose talents spanned the worlds of painting, sculpture and dance, has died. By The ...
Robert Rauschenberg, the protean artist from small-town Texas whose imaginative commitment to hybrid forms of painting and sculpture changed the course of American and European art between 1950 and ...
Robert Rauschenberg liked to smash molds. In the 1950s, at the apex of the Abstract Expressionist movement, the artist employed his off-the-wall imagination in service of a multimedia approach to art ...
“I think a painting has such a limited life,” Robert Rauschenberg told an interviewer in 1965, a year after he won the Grand Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale and became one of the most famous ...
A display featuring a bouquet of real flowers by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns for Tiffany & Co. Courtesy Tiffany & Co. The holidays in New York are synonymous with more than a few of my ...
The artist Robert Rauschenberg was always interested in bringing a full range of media to his artworks—he’s most famous, after all, for his “Combines” of 1954-1964, works that, as the name suggests, ...