Artist: Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
After studying at the Kansas City Art Institute and the Black Mountain College in North Carolina, Robert Rauscenberg moved to Paris in 1948 to train at the Academie Julien. Early in his career, Rauschenberg collaborated with composer John Cage in a piece called Happenings. He then evolved from collages to paintings, working with a sole color, normally black, white, or red. This approach changed drastically in the 1950’s when Rauschenberg began to create controversial pictures that used unusual colors and a range of found junkyard objects.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Stoned Moon, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1969, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg, a Retrospective, the Menil Collection, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1998, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 2001, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg, 3 of the Cloister series, Ace on Melrose, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg im Städel, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg-Daryl Pottorf, The Butler Institute of American Art, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1999, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg, ’Echo’, Seattle Symphony, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1998-1999, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Musée de Toulon, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1979, Offset lithograph
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A Day with Rauschenberg at the Lab School, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1999, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, The Tate, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1981, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, White Paintings, Ace, L.A., Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1973, Silkscreen
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Rauschenberg, Haywire, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1997, Offset lithograph
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A Day with Rauschenberg at the Lab School, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1997, Offset lithograph
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A Day with Rauschenberg at the Lab School, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 2000, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Louisiana, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg: Posters March 10-June 12, 2005 LACMA, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 2005, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg Visitation II Lithograph 1965
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Rauschenberg, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1984, Screenprint
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Gluts, Rauschenberg, Leo Castelli, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1986, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Drawings, Hannover, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1979, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1979, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Museum of Modern Art, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1977, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Jewish Museum, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1963, Offset lithograph
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Robert Rauschenberg Sack Lithograph in five colors 1969
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Robert Rauschenberg Brake Lithograph in five colors 1969
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Rauschenberg, Firenze, Forte Di Belvedere, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1976, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Richard Hines Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1979, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Drawing and Studies for Currents, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1970, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, The Silkscreen Paintings-1962/64, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1990, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg at San Lazzaro Island, Venice, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1996, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Edison Community College, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1993, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, U.S.S.R., Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1989, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Kunsthalle and Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Douglas Elliot Gallery, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1983, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Edison Community College, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 2000, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Edison Community College, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Cloister Series, Ace, Canada, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1980, Offset lithograph
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Currents ’70, Rauschenberg, Castelli Graphics, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1990, Offset lithograph
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Untitled, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1973, Silkscreen and lithograph
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Rauschenberg, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1977, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Hara Museum, Tokyo, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1982, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Soundings. The Museum of Modern Art, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1968, Offset lithograph
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Poster for Rauschenberg Retrospective, Art Institute of Chicago, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1977, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Quake in Paradise, a Labyrinth, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , no date, Offset lithograph and screenprint
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Rauschenberg at Galerie Jamileh Weber, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1991, Offset lithograph and screenprint
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, Berlin, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1990, Offset lithograph
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Poster for Rauschenberg Retrospective, Albright-Knox, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1977, Offset lithograph
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Jammers, Rauschenberg, Castelli, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1976, Photo-transfer offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Works, Knoedler and Co., Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1991, Offset lithograph on gold foil
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Fotograf, Rauschenberg, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1982, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Works, Galerie Jamileh Weber, Zürich, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1991, Screenprint
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, Japan, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1986, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1994, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Lucio Amelio Gallery, Napoli, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1987, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, a Bunch of Prints, Castelli Uptown, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1978, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, China, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1985, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg, Port Arthur, Texas, Public Library, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1984, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, Sangtiago de Chile, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1985, Offset lithograph
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Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange, Mexico City, Robert Rauschenberg (United States, Texas, Port Arthur, 1925 - 2008-05-12) , 1985, Offset lithograph

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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University of Richmond Museums: Robert Rauschenberg: From the Speculations Series
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Whitney Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Synapsis Shuffle
The extraordinary range of imagery in Synapsis Shuffle, from the banal to the exotic, derives from photographs Rauschenberg took d...
Museum of Contemporary Art, LA and the Geffen Contemporary: F A Room of Their Own: From Rothko to Rauschenberg
This presentation together with A Room of Their Own: From Oldenburg to Gober will span more than 50 years of contemporary art. The exhibition is co-organized by MOCA chief cu...
Cantor Arts Center Stanford University: Art from Life: Prints by Robert Rauschenberg
The Cantor Arts Center is on the Stanford campus, just off Palm Drive, at Museum Way. Parking is FREE and easy after 4 p.m. and on weekends. Weekday pay parking, in front of the Center or in the parking structure on Campus Drive and Roth Way, cos...
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: Robert Rauschenberg: Current Scenarios
Rauschenberg made his Wadsworth Atheneum debut in 1964, in several guises. His legendary Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953) had its first public showing with other early work in the group exhibition Black, White and Grey: Contemporary Painting and ...
McKinney Avenue Contemporary: Visions, Vows and That Old Time Religion: Paintings by John Alexander
John Alexander is among the most internationally recognized artists from Texas. Like other post-war giants -- Robert Rauschenberg and Julian Schnabel come to mind -- he has made his reputation outside of Texas, all the while maintaining longst...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Starting at Zero: Black Mountain College 1933-57
Founded in North Carolina in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, a dissident Classical academic, it attracted a star-studded cast of teachers and students who forged a dramatic shift from a Eurocentric art world to a distinctly American one. Rice invited Jo...
: Art Dealer Monolith Leo Castelli Dies at 91
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art
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Appleton Museum of Art: Homage to Van Gogh: International Artists Pay Tribute to a Legend
The collection was started in 1985 with the intention on fulfilling Van Gogh’s hope of forming a community of artists in Arles, France. Little evidence remains of Van Gogh’s residence in the city. None of the paintings made during Van Gogh’s “Arle...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: After the Beginning and Before the End: 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono
The exhibition After the Beginning and Before the End - 222 Drawings from Picasso to Yoko Ono is about these beginnings. In 222 examples of the artist’s first steps toward the finished product, this exhibition s...
Milwaukee Art Museum: POP Impact: from Johns to Warhol
Pop Impact! From Johns to Warhol looks at Pop imagery from different perspectives, encouraging visitors to examine the movement's defining characteristics elements such as scale and seriality as well as such atypical Pop approaches as the...
New Museum of Contemporary Art: Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue, 1961 - 2001
In addition, Brown will present her 2003-2004 New York dance season at the New Museum, performing many of her early works from the Judson Dance Theater period and the 1970s. Dance and Art in Dialogue is guest curated by Hendel Teicher. Compl...
Brooklyn Museum of Art: Digital: Revolutions in Printmaking
The exhibition will include new works by many established artists, among them John Baldessari, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Kiki Smith, and James Turrell. The rel...
National Gallery of Art: Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.
From its beginnings, Gemini has introduced cutting-edge methods of fabrication to realize the visions of its invited artists, said Earl A. Powell III, director, National Gallery of Art. We are pleased to present these innovative works by some of t...
Guggenheim Hermitage Museum: American Pop Icons: Works by Eight Key Artists
In a statement, Thomas Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, said of the Pop exhibition: "American Pop Icons is the third major presentation at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum as part of its ongoing mission to bring many of the wor...
Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art: Adrienne Outlaw
Outlaw has interviewed such art-world luminaries as Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Stella and James Turrell. With Movements she explores how her contact with these artists led to discoveries ...
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...
Saint Louis Art Museum: Pop Impressions Europe/USA: Prints and Multiples from The Museum of Modern Art
Organized thematically, the exhibition addresses some of the prevailing subjects that preoccupied Pop artists, including mass media, consumer culture, politics, and erotica. The exhibition begins with proto-Pop examples by artists such as Ja...
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA is an exclusive SFMOMA presentation; the exhibition is co-organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and John S. Weber, the Leanne ...
Friedman Benda: Renowned New York Sculptor Forrest Myers
An artist who greatly expanded the functional vocabulary of sculpture, Myer’s work is foremost, the result of his empirical explorations in materiality. For 40 years, he has been experimenting with the inherent properties of metal. The show will n...
Cleveland Museum of Art: From Rembrandt to Rauschenberg: Recently Acquired Prints
The finest impressions by Rembrandt (1606–1669), one of the most experimental and greatest printmakers, are now exceedingly rare, so that it is important to take advantage when an opportunity appears. A beautiful impression of The ...
Riflemaker: LIFE-FILE: THE PRIVATE FILE-FOLDERS OF WILLIAM S BURROUGHS
The exhibition at Riflemaker features fifty such works each representing and combining Burroughs various areas of creative activity - literature, visual mark-making and performance. The works are abstract often using just one or two colours used a...
Phoenix Art Museum: Embracing the Present: The UBS Art Collection
This exhibition has been organized by the Portland Art Museum and is made possible by UBS. One of the foremost collections of contemporary art in the United States, The UBS Art Collection, formerly The PaineWebber Art Collection, began in 1971 wi...
World Financial Center Winter Garden: From the Art of New York: 110 New York and Gulf Coast Artists
The exhibition culminates with a private, ticketed Mardi Gras Gala on Tuesday evening, February 28, 2006. From the Art of New York's Founder and Chair Stephanie Simon is an Arts Reporter and Producer for NY1 News, Time Warner's 24 hour news ch...
Contemporary Arts Center: Slide Show
Slide Show is a series of 18 installations that range from single-carousel pieces to more cinematic presentations created with multiple projectors. Through the remarkably simple technology of a slide projector and color transparencies, artists fou...
Contemporary Arts Center: Kendell Geers: Hung, Drawn and Quartered
Born in Johannesburg, South Africa, Geers employs a fully integrated approach to art and life calling into question his own conflicted ancestry as a white South African. He has exhibited extensively around the world, most notably he has participat...
Andy Warhol Museum: Nadar/Warhol: Paris/New York
Organized by the Getty Museum, the Nadar/Warhol exhibition will open in Los Angeles at the Getty Center from July 20 through October 10, 1999. It will then travel to The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (November 6...
Pump House Gallery: Shake It :  An Instant History of the Polaroid
Besides work by some of the most important artists working with the medium, the show will also include Polaroids from other diverse professions and disciplines such as forensics, archaeology, medicine, filmmaking and fashion, as well as those of a...
Kontainer Gallery: Peter Lamb and The Art of Dickies and Pollocks
Lamb talks about his method as a trawl through personal history and memory, seeing what the day's catch might yield. It also throws up bits of art history. You couldn't call these quotations, more found‚ images: the odds and ends, the broken ...
Jan van der Donk: Hazel Larsen Archer: Trimming of this Photo is Forbidden
This show indeed documents the faces of the young Cunningham, the young Cage, de Kooning, Ruth Asawa, Dorothea Rockburne, Su san Weil,  Robert Rauschenberg and Ray Johnson. On view are also portraits of Josef and Annie Albers, Charles Olson and ...
Austin Museum of Art: The New Frontier: Art and Television 1960-65
This exhibition will be the first ever to examine the impact of television on the visual arts in the United States and Europe at a crucial period in the development of both media. The origins of the media wo...
Portland Museum of Art: Leonard Baskin: Monumental Woodcuts
Monumental woodcuts--fashioned from multiple blocks joined together--were made as early as the Renaissance by artists such as Jacopo de Barbari, Hans Schufelein, and Albrecht Durer. The subjects were usually grand views, narrative compositions, or...
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: In the beginning was MERZ: From Kurt Schwitters until today
He used the term MERZ for a concept which united all his artistic activities, naming his works MERZ drawings, MERZ paintings, MERZ sculptures, MERZ publications. He also organi...
Contemporary Arts Center: Sanford Biggers: both/and not either/or
For the CAC, Biggers will produce a new exhibition environment entitled “Both/And Not Either/Or.” The exhibition will focus on a bell choir ceremony in Japan where he explores the connection between contemporary and ancestral.  Biggers’ exhibition...
Portland Museum of Art: Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection
As a teacher at Freeport High School and Curator of Maine Coast Artists in Rockport, Brown has educated many people about art and has also assembled a phenomenal collection of contemporary prints on a limited budget. Brown began collecting in the...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland: First Sight – An Encyclopedia of Childhood
A photographic time capsule, Kistemaker’s images document a treasure trove of objects his parents lovingly saved from his youth including clothing, toys, books, games, sheet music from music lessons and model railroad sets – and yet his process of...
DaimlerChrysler: SA ARTIST PREPARES FOR INTERNATIONAL GALLERIES
The international exhibition, which will be followed by a countrywide exhibition in South Africa, forms part of the award prize, which is valued at R300 000. Kay also received a R10 000 cash prize, the creation of a glossy full-colour portfoli...
Contemporary Arts Center: Nothing Compared to This: Ambient, Incidental and New Minimal Tendencies in Current Art
Nothing Compared to This looks at the works of artists who occupy and control space by subtle, often indirect, means. The most salient distinction of today’s art in this vein, however, is that it is often not meant to be contemplated, or even dire...
Hauser and Wirth London: Photographs and Television Shows by Andy Warhol
The photographs reveal Warhol’s surprising eye for touching images, such as those of Jean-Michel Basquiat in the company of his mother, enchanting children, as well as key members of the Factory inner circle. A self-portrait of the artist in the a...

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