“Over and over again I’ve found it impossible to memorize Rauschenberg’s paintings. I keep asking, ‘Have you changed it?’ And then noticing while I’m looking it changes.” — John Cage, 1961
Rauschenberg’s friends, lovers, paintings, combines, silkscreens, dance videos, a huge vat of mud, and a beautiful catalogue: It’s all at MOMA for three more months.
ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: AMONG FRIENDS, through September 17.
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 West 53rd Street, New York City.
Catalogue: store.moma.org/exhibition-catalogues/robert-rauschenberg
From top:
Robert Rauschenberg, Retroactive I, 1963, oil and silkscreen ink on canvas, 84 x 60 inches (213.4 x 152.4 cm), Wadsworth Atheneum, Gift of Susan Morse Hilles. RRF 64.004. Image credit: Creative Commons.
Robert Rauschenberg, Monogram, 1955–1959. Photograph by Philip Greenberg. Image credit: Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
