🎨🐐 Does anyone remember our 2016 Robert Rauschenberg at Tate Modern? Born on this day 1925, Rauschenberg blazed a new trail for art in the second half of the twentieth century. He created his own path, redefining how art could be made and what it could be, working in collaboration with many pioneering artists, painters, dancers, composers and activists to create artworks that elevated the everyday. Rauschenberg shared his spirit and influenced the art world that came after him, in painting, pr

Via @greatartexplained “It’s poetry”. Robert Rauschenberg discussing (in 1998, full interview in YouTube) when he went to Willem de Kooning’s studio to ask him if he could erase one of his works. From 1951 to 1953, Rauschenberg made a number of artworks that explore the limits and very definition of art. These works investigated the notion of the artist as creator of ideas, a concept first broached by Marcel Duchamp (see my video on him) with his iconic readymades of the early twentieth century.

Join us for #RauschenbergAmongFriends, the first 21st-century retrospective of the artist’s six-decade long career. Robert Rauschenberg worked in the gap between art and life, bringing the stuff of the everyday world into his art and shaping artistic practice for decades to come. From May 21-September 17, our 4th floor galleries will serve as testaments to the friendships and artistic exchanges that characterized his work—hosting over 250 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and