Remembering the life and death of Robert Rauschenberg

Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) opened Colorado’s first solo show of Robert Rauschenberg artworks today at the indoor galleries at Englewood Civic Center. Learn more about this important artist from several people who knew Rauschenberg in person and allowed me to interview them. My feature for Art & Object.

Having researched the man and his art for two different articles to publicize the opening, I’m left with impressions of Rauschenberg’s charismatic personality and sense of humor, as well as his sense of humanity and philanthropy. Rauschenberg seems to have been an artist who understood well the art of living — even to his deathbed.

Read the full article I wrote on the exhibit for Denver Business Journal:

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2020/02/07/rauschenberg-art-exhibit-englewood.html

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Robert Rauschenberg’s first solo show in Colorado

On assignment to report on the upcoming Robert Rauschenberg solo exhibition at Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA), I wondered what I might add to the already vast body of scholarship about the influential artist who altered the trajectory of painting, sculpture and photography with his innovative work. 

Fortunately, I found four sources who had known the artist personally. These individuals shared anecdotes about the artist, and all remembered his charisma and his sense of humor, in addition to his talent.

In researching Rauschenberg, I came to appreciate the man as much as his art. He collaborated with artists around the world as a humanitarian and became a philanthropist supporting many causes as close to his heart as his art.

“Rauschenberg: Reflections and Ruminations” opens February 24th and shows through June 13th at Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) located in Englewood Civic Center.

 Read the full article here:

https://www.bizjournals.com/denver/news/2020/02/07/rauschenberg-art-exhibit-englewood.html

 

#MuseumofOutdoorArts #MOA #DenverBusinessJournal #ByColleenSmith #DBJ #RobertRauschenberg #MuseumofContemporaryArts

“Rauschenberg: Reflections and Ruminations” opens February 24th and shows through June 13th at Museum of Outdoor Arts (MOA) located in Englewood Civic Center.