More Rauschenberg

by | May 16, 2008 | Complete, People

Today’s Times has a tour through NYC’s Rauschenberg holdings by Roberta Smith, the paper’s chief critic. It opens with the point that the artist not only epitomized (some would say dominated) the post-War NYC art world, but that he insistently drew...

Robert Rauschenberg, RIP

by | May 13, 2008 | Complete, People

The artist Robert Rauschenberg, subject of one of my favorite New York biographies, is dead at 82. The Times appreciation here. The Combines show, which I saw here and in LA, was without a doubt one of the best shows I’d ever seen — and as good as it was...