Court hears man's claim to Hughes' fortune May 15, 2008
Howard Hughes in the cockpit of his wooden plane, the "Spruce Goose". May 15, 2008 - 9:55AM. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Auctions: Bacon triptych auctioned for record $86 million May 15, 2008
Three works by the art world titan Robert Rauschenberg were on offer Wednesday night, and his death this week at 82 prompted avid speculation on how they would fare. Historically, auction prices tend to dip immediately after an artist dies in anticipation that long-withheld works will flood the market. (International Herald Tribune)
Bacon painting sets postwar auction record May 15, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, who died in Florida this week, also saw a new mark with the $14. 6-million sale of Overdrive. (Globe and Mail)
Mother's anguish at bed shortage inertia May 15, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Dianne Gaddin "It's a disgrace.". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Bust from riverbed reveals face of Julius Caesar: archeologist May 15, 2008
Influential U.S. artist Robert Rauschenberg, best known for incorporating everyday objects into paintings, prints and sculptures, has died at the age of 82. Four artists, three of them women, were nominated Tuesday for this year's Turner Prize, the Tate Britain's controversial prize for contemporary art. (Yahoo News -- Anthropology and Archaeology)
Second poll likely to choose president May 15, 2008
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Jose Ramos-Horta, 57, is mobbed by the press as he arrives at a polling station to cast his vote. (Yahoo News -- East Timor)
Famous American artist Robert Rauschenberg dies at 82 May 15, 2008
BEIJING, May 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Robert Rauschenberg, famous American artist, who was believed to be the biggest innovator in art after Jackson Pollock, died on Monday at age 82, according to media reports. The cause was heart failure, said Arne Glimcher, chairman of Pace Wildenstein, the Manhattan gallery that represents Rauschenberg. (Xinhuanet, China)
$86 million for a Bacon triptych leads record sales at Sotheby's May 15, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg came next in the succession of world records with "Overdrive." The very large canvas, 213. 4 centimeters high, was painted in 1963 in oil and silkscreen ink. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Puffing Rauschenberg May 15, 2008
The dailies slobber all over the corpse of Robert Rauschenberg ... By Jack ShaferPosted Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at 5:33 PM ET A woman views artwork by Robert Rauschenberg ... The solemn tributes to Robert Rauschenberg in today's newspapers prove that you're more likely to encounter an independent mind operating in the sports pages than the arts section. (Slate)
Remembering Rauschenberg May 15, 2008
What Robert Rauschenberg thought about dying ... By Jim LewisPosted Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at 6:57 PM ET Robert Rauschenberg ... I once asked Robert Rauschenberg if he was afraid of dying. (Slate)
Robert Rauschenberg, art's eclectic master, dies at 82 May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, who as one of the foremost American artists of the 20th century helped break down aesthetic barriers between the exalted and the everyday, died Monday at his home on Captiva Island, Fla. He was 82. (Boston Globe)
Viagra introduces its latest celebrity backer: the devil May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg, the most versatile, inventive and iconoclastic American artist of the past 50 years, who would use anything from canvas to a stuffed goat or household junk for his creations, has died in Florida after a long illness, his gallery representative said. He was 82. (Yahoo News -- Men's Health)
Robert Rauschenberg's art challenged assumptions May 14, 2008
By Maria Puente, USA TODAY American master Robert Rauschenberg was one of those rare artists who changed the language of art indeed, changed the definition of what is art ... Artist Robert Rauschenberg, who was known for piecing together everyday articles into works of art, died Monday in Florida. (USA Today -- Life)
US pop artist Rauschenberg dies May 14, 2008
Robert Rauschenberg split his time between New York and Florida. American pop artist Robert Rauschenberg has died in Florida at the age of 82. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Robert Rauschenberg, 92 May 14, 2008
Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg has died. He was 82. (Globe and Mail)
Memories of Rauschenberg: 'A giant among artists' May 14, 2008
Schimmel organized MOCA's 2006 "Robert Rauschenberg: Combines," which featured the influential painting and sculpture hybrids the artist pioneered in the 1950s and won the best monograph show award from the American branch of the International Assn. of Art Critics. The show had its debut the year before at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. (Los Angeles Times)
Disaster in China May 14, 2008
The Southern St. Bernard: Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg Monday at the age of 82. He melded and transcended traditional mediapainting, sculpture, photographyand in his exploitation of the mundane embodied what Robert Hughes once called "supply-side aesthetics." An affable and charming Southerner, Rauschenberg was to 20th-century art rather what Allen Tate was to poetry. (Slate)
Crisis = Opportunity May 14, 2008
The LAT, NYT, and WP front the death of Robert Rauschenberg, the influential and innovative American artist "who time and again reshaped art in the 20th century" (). He was 82 and died of heart failure. (Slate)
CBC complains to CRTC after Sask. station taken off satellite May 14, 2008
Influential U.S. artist Robert Rauschenberg, best known for incorporating everyday objects into paintings, prints and sculptures, has died at the age of 82. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is asking the federal broadcasting regulator to intervene after a satellite TV company pulled the plug on CBC Saskatchewan. (CBC.ca)
US pop art giant dies, aged 82 May 14, 2008
The US pop art pioneer Robert Rauschenberg has died at the age of 82, his gallery said today. Rauschenberg - described as a "titan" of American art by the New York Times - died on Tuesday, Jennifer Joy, of the Pace Wildenstein gallery, in New York, said. (Guardian Unlimited)
RAM at Five: Racine Art Museum celebrates five years in Downtown, and the successes that have come with that time May 10, 2008
Boyd s most recent donation, in 2007, was a gift of 27 ceramic sculptures, nine fiber works and 81 works on paper, featuring pieces by important artists ranging from Jack Earl to Robert Rauschenberg and Horst P. Horst. Hers was one of two major gifts received by the museum last year, the other being more than 60 works in ceramics and fibers (mostly basekts) given by Donna Moog, the St. Louis based collector who gave her 286-piece collection of artist-made teapots in 2000 (exhibited in 2003). (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Sotheby's Announces 2008 First Quarter Results May 9, 2008
Other featured works are by Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Yves Klein and Tom Wesselmann. Also in New York, our American Paintings sale on May 22nd is highlighted by Edward Hick's Peaceable Kingdom, arguably the best of his career and estimated to achieve $6/8 million. (Primezone Releases)
Americas best Italian restaurants May 2, 2008
So, too, Tony's in Houston, run by the indomitable Tony Vallone, is in its third incarnation, with a dramatic, postmodern dcor that includes sculpture by Jsus Moroles and works by Robert Rauschenberg, and other top artists. The Houston Chronicle contends, "Tony Vallone brings his impeccable culinary instincts and a hands-on approach. Food doesn't get much better or more elemental than this.". (MSNBC -- Travel)
New York cool: A transitional generation is given its due May 2, 2008
In this canon of postwar art, only Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns get credit for moving painting beyond the gesture. "New York Cool" reminds us that the art world of the late '50s and early '60s, while smaller than the art world of today, was a multifarious scene shaped by more than a handful of artists. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Gallery reaps high returns on lifelong habit Apr 4, 2008
The 260 works include some of the world's best known contemporary artists: Christo, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt and Gilbert & George. Like any addict, Mr Kaldor began with a modest habit. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Donation marks a collector's life Apr 4, 2008
JOHN KALDOR was 21 when he bought his first piece of contemporary art, a work by the American Robert Rauschenberg he found in a Paris gallery. Rauschenberg, who came to prominence in the 1950s as abstract expressionism gave ground to Pop Art, is now acknowledged as one of the titans of 20th century art. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
A colossal private sale by the heirs of a dealer Apr 4, 2008
Sonnabend's art trove, which includes seminal works by artists like Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, is valued at more than $1 billion. Taxes on the estate amount to more than half the value of the assets, experts said. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
$35m collection given to NSW gallery Apr 3, 2008
The collection, which has been built up by the prominent Australian art patron John Kaldor over 50 years, contains 260 works by a who's who of contemporary artists including Christo, Jeff Koons, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol LeWitt and Andreas Gursky. The Kaldor collection has been described as the nation's most important assembly of late 20th-century avant-garde art. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Benefactor makes record art donation Apr 3, 2008
The 260 works span five decades of international contemporary art, and include heavyweights such as Sol LeWitt, Robert Rauschenberg, Christo and Jeff Koons many of whom are friends of the former textiles manufacturer. At a function to mark the donation at the gallery today, Mr Kaldor said he never set out to start what has become one of the country's great collections of avant-garde art. (Melbourne Herald Sun)
Moral Muzziness Apr 2, 2008
I see Abdessemed working at the morbid end of creative ambition's descent into "the gap between art and life," as the young Robert Rauschenberg famously called it when claiming it as his milieu. With "Don't Trust Me," Abdessemed seemingly moved to up the ante by minimizing the gap between art and death. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Roanoke gets new avant-garde art museum Mar 7, 2008
The museum now displays less than 6 percent of its permanent collection, which includes works of 19th and 20th century American art by Thomas Eakins, Norman Rockwell, John Singer Sargent and Winslow Homer and contemporary works by Jacob Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Sally Mann. Each gallery will be distinctive. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Renzo Piano's LA museum opens to public Feb 18, 2008
Important pieces by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein shift the weight back toward pop art and its progeny, which rule again on the floor below, with ensembles of work by Damien Hirst, Cindy Sherman and Jean-Michel Basquiat. The visitor leaves BCAM with a question not intended by the museum and its benefactors: Who could warm to this particular constellation of artworks as anything but a triumph of conspicuous consumption or speculative investment. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Bono's Red Auction Rakes In Green Feb 15, 2008
The list of artists who contributed work inspired by the color red was equally glamorous, including the street artist Banksy, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. Before Thursday night's art sale, Bono's Product Red project had raised $58 million for the Global Fund. (Forbes)
New Milford Artist Searches for the Soul of Abraham Lincoln Feb 8, 2008
"The show opens in Decatur, Ill., in June. It will be an honor to be included with many great painters, such as Robert Rauschenberg, William H. Johnson, and Norman Rockwell." Last October, she was invited by the Adams County Arts Council in Gettysburg to submit an idea for the Governor's Arts Awards and to kickoff of Pennsylvania's Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial celebration. She proposed a project called "The People's President," in which she sketched out the face of Lincoln on a large canvas and... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Jasper Johns: Color in shades of gray Feb 6, 2008
"You can't really have art down here because of the weather," said Johns, 77, who keeps most of his art collection works by Degas, Picasso and Duchamp as well as old friends like Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in the Connecticut farmhouse and studio where he lives for most of the year. "Somehow," he said, inspecting the painting, "encaustic is impervious to the climate.". (International Herald Tribune)
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The Renzo Piano-designed galleries will be filled in part by selections from the Broads' vast collection, which include key works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and Jasper Johns (such as his 1967 Flag, above). The Broads have agreed to an unusual open-ended arrangement with LACMA in which they'll loan pieces for display but won't donate them, because they want the art to be seen, not to sit in storage as 90% of museum art collections do. (FastCompany)
Close, To His Heart Dec 28, 2007
Cajori, who died in 2006 at age 56, stays well in the background as she allows such luminaries as Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg and minimalist composer Philip Glass (who wrote music for the film) to chime in. The result is a portrait that should interest art-savvy viewers and neophytes alike. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
HUNG UP ON THE SUMMER OF L00003644OVE Dec 16, 2007
Everywhere we turn in Miami, he's seeing artists that he likes, from Robert Rauschenberg to Ellsworth Kelly. But every once in a while there's a particular exhibit that captures his imagination. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Abstract painter was founding dean of the art school at California Institute of the Arts Dec 6, 2007
Returning to New York in the 1950s, he was part of a group of second-generation Abstract Expressionists that included Robert Rauschenberg and Jackson Pollock. He also helped influential art dealer Leo Castelli start his New York City gallery. (Los Angeles Times)
Easing away from the easel: Artist faces failing vision Nov 30, 2007
Immensely proud of having received the prestigious Robert Rauschenberg Award in 1999 for his work encouraging local youth and schoolchildren to express themselves artistically and create historical murals in their neighborhoods, Tineo says, Art heals the mind and soul. Rather than seeing youth go in a negative direction, he has helped elementary school children and teens to see within, stretching their confidence and abilities like he stretches canvases. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Window wonderland Nov 9, 2007
Other 60s pop artists followed suit - Robert Rauschenberg, Jim Dine and Jasper Johns were all involved with Christmas displays for the store. Conceptual window displays were not new, even in the 1960s. (Guardian Unlimited)
Review: Louise Nevelson's found at the de Young Nov 8, 2007
Younger gay contemporaries such as Ellsworth Kelly, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol (1926-1987) also forswore New York School male posturing, but in the '50s they benefited by an informal conspiracy of denial in a way that Nevelson could not. Did success as a female artist require Nevelson to blow off marriage and motherhood as she did - when her son was 9 - to study in Europe with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966), Chaim Gross (1904-1991) and others there, and later in New York. (San Francisco Chronicle)
A masterful body of work Oct 26, 2007
Sets by Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns are displayed as artworks at the National Gallery of Victoria. All these elements - and more - outline the context of Cunningham's dance. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Ileana Sonnabend, 92,art dealer Oct 25, 2007
The list is long, and remains an astounding record of an artistic era studded with names like Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, George Baselitz and Jeff Koons. Sonnabend's exhibitions often had the art world talking. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Court, controversy for dismantled Bucher exhibition at Mass Moca Oct 25, 2007
The football field-size Building 5 has featured artists as well-known as Robert Rauschenberg and installations as sprawling as Carsten Holler's "Amusement Park," with rides ranging from bumper cars to a Gravitron. For Buchel, whose work had typically been done in galleries, his first major museum show in the United States would provide an obvious career boost. (North County Times)
Christoph Bchel and Mass MoCA: The dismantling of an exhibition Oct 21, 2007
The football field-size Building 5 has featured artists as well-known as Robert Rauschenberg and installations as sprawling as Carsten Holler's "Amusement Park," with rides ranging from bumper cars to a Gravitron. For B chel, whose work had typically been done in galleries, his first major museum show in the United States would provide an obvious career boost. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Contemporary (Art) Madness Oct 21, 2007
Post: Your collection includes works by Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Cindy Sherman that are held in both a private collection and a foundation. All of these will be available for Lacma curators to fill the new Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM), to which you have given 60 million. (New York Post -- Business)
Smithsonian Given Castelli Records Oct 20, 2007
1923), Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997), Robert Rauschenberg (b. 1925), Dan Flavin (1933-1996), Frank Stella (b. (Suite101.com)
Go For A Home Run Oct 11, 2007
Even kids can get into it with carry-out crafts for kids," with Domino magazine art director, Hilary Fitzgibbons, teaching youngsters to make personalized place mats, decorative plates and picture frames. Other special programs include Screwdriver Renovations," quick DIY face-lift tricks - and an opening-night silent auction featuring works from artists such as Keith Haring and Robert Rauschenberg. With so much to see and so many deals to be had, it's hard to know where to start. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
America's creative elite invade Berlin Oct 7, 2007
According to Damaso Reyes of the cultural magazine Krax: 'Gone are the days when up-and-coming painters such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg could rent a huge loft in Manhattan for just a few hundred dollars a month. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Carter Center at 25: Stateman's dream keeps world awake Oct 1, 2007
The best stuff hangs outside their apartment: pieces by big-name artists like Jacob Lawrence, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol. The center has nine Warhols. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
The post-Sputnik years: How outer space captivated a generation Sep 26, 2007
Robert Rauschenberg was probably the most famous artist to use space imagery front and center, incorporating pictures of astronauts and space capsules into his works in the '60s. At Bell Laboratories, which was intimately tied up with NASA in its earliest years, Billy Kluver, an engineer, organized groundbreaking collaborations with artists, including Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol, to inject space-age technology into artworks, a program whose legacy is still felt today. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
SFMOMA's Neal Benezra balances art and money Sep 7, 2007
New acquisitions made during Benezra's tenure - of works by Gordon Matta-Clark, Hans Haacke, William Kentridge, Kiki Smith - do not rock even the art public as do names such as Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Rene Magritte and Piet Mondrian, collection boosters from the late '90s. Among recent acquisitions, "the piece that I'm most pleased about is the Vija Celmins," Benezra said, a preference that accords with his quiet, bemused demeanor. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hungarian art is a highlight at Maltz Museum Aug 10, 2007
Lakner s hyper realism was inspired by American Pop artist Robert Rauschenberg. The exhibit includes five works by Lszl Fehr, who considers Lakner one of the most important sources of his inspiration. (Cleveland Jewish News, OH)
Before the soup can Jul 29, 2007
The following year, his partner Robert Rauschenberg had a successful show of pictures derived from street signs. The fortress of abstract expressionism was being breached and the Pop Art style was emerging. (Times Online)
Resident dynamo reveals third act Jul 20, 2007
Artists represented include Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Ernesto Neto and Daniel Arsham. Launching her third festival, Edmunds cautiously acknowledges some changes from her first two events, which were criticised for concentrating too much on cutting-edge works. (The Age)
Hello, come in, do have a nibble ... Jul 4, 2007
The Hermitage show includes his photographs of 1960s icons Paul Newman, Martin Luther King and Allen Ginsberg, as well as those of leading American artists Warhol, Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Ed Ruscha. Hopper shot many of those artists before they had even exhibited publicly, let alone become famous. (Guardian Unlimited)
Maiden voyageFloating arts/antiques emporium makes Fairfield County its first port of call Jul 2, 2007
These are well-vetted dealers who have been involved with us for 10 to 15 years," she says. The dealer roster includes Adelson Galleries of New York, specialists in 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century American paintings; Artmophere, Rudoph Budja Galerie Salzburg, a dealer of modern and contemporary art by artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Damien Hirst, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat; the by-appointment-only Gilan Jewelry in New York which caters to socialites and titans in... (Stamford Advocate)
Galveston man finds junk, makes art Jun 25, 2007
Abstract artists like Robert Rauschenberg, who used nontraditional materials such as bicycles, a stuffed goat and a bed quilt in artwork during his prime in the 1950s and 60s, heavily influence Muhich. Using pieces of wood from cabinet making companies, old neon signs and pieces of steel, Muhich welds together his artwork. (KHOU.com, TX)
Baby, you can't drive my car Jun 7, 2007
BMW decided to found a collection around the idea: there are now 16 cars including a Robert Rauschenberg, a David Hockney and a Michael Jagamara Nelson. BMW's Thomas Girst would not be drawn on the possible value today of the company's Warhol. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Giants of British art to star in Royal Academy summer show Jun 7, 2007
Hockney's 40ft scenic painting of Yorkshire will form the largest work of the much-heralded collection, while the creations of the former Turner Prize nominees Tracey Emin and Issac Julien will feature alongside American artists Johns, Ed Ruscha, Robert Rauschenberg and Chuck Close. This year's impressive line up will cement the reputation of the Summer Exhibition on the art industry's calendar. (Independent)
New lease of life for New Realism at Paris show Jun 3, 2007
Besides the 30 principal artists of this movement, other works by artists belonging to the Fluxus, Zero and Neo-Dada currents of art like Gunther Uecker or Robert Rauschenberg are also on display ... Similar treatment was accorded to Robert Rauschenberg several months ago in Paris and also in New York. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Rich Cribs: Priciest block in Southampton May 19, 2007
Renovations were done by architect Jifat Windmiller, who has worked with artist Robert Rauschenberg and who just completed the Bank of America's Wall Street headquarters. The house will be filmed for a feature on the cable TV network HGTV, DiPaolo says. (Newsday -- Business)
Rothko, Bacon Smash Records at Sotheby's `Crazy' $255 Million Art Auction May 16, 2007
Last night's sale, more electric than either of last week's, set 15 artist records, including for Richard Prince, Robert Rauschenberg, Cecily Brown, John Baldessari and Morris Louis. The previous high of $239. (Bloomberg -- US)
Arts foundation honors quilters from ... May 7, 2007
I was praying for this day back when I was working in the cotton fields," said Loretta Pettaway, one of the four black patchwork quilting artists from Gee's Bend, Ala., honored at the annual dinner of the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies (FAPE). Mrs. Pettaway and her colleagues, Louisiana Bendolph, Mary Lee Bendolph and Loretta Bennett, were recognized as the newest members of a pantheon of American artists who have contributed their work for display in U.S. embassies, consulates... (Washington Times, DC)
