Upcoming Events for "I Don't Think About Being Great: Selected Writings by Robert Rauschenberg"
Old Family Dining Room featuring Rauschenberg’s “Early Bloomer [Anagram (A Pun)]”, Obama Administration, February 9, 2025. Official White House Photo by Amanda Lucidon
A Legacy in Motion: Rauschenberg Residency Alumni/ae Shaping the Obama Presidential Center
As the Obama Presidential Center marks its grand opening today, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation recognizes four Captiva Residency alumni/ae whose newly commissioned works help define this major civic and cultural project.
Robert Rauschenberg, Dasar Sabak beach, Kota Bharu, Malaysia, September 1989. Photo: Unattributed. Photograph Collection. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, New York.
ROCI Malaysia: Forests, Fabrics, and Friction
"Pelican" Reimagined, Sixty Years Later
Click here to purchase tickets to Trisha Brown Dance Company's “Pelican Gala" on May 18th at Xanadu Roller Arts in Brooklyn, and enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at how the reimagined work came together.
Russell Storer, Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, M+, and curator of Robert Rauschenberg and Asia. Image courtesy of M+ Hong Kong.
Process & Possibility: Three Questions With Russell Storer
When Robert Rauschenberg embarked on his far‑reaching projects across Asia in the 1980s as part of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) project, he sought to expand the possibilities of artistic exchange: collaborating with local artisans, experimenting with new materials, and rei
Announcing the 2026 Archives Research Residency Recipients
The Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Archives Research Residency, a program for individuals interested in conducting research in the Foundation Archives in New York City.
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, January 2023. Artworks by Rauschenberg, from left: Untitled (1986) and Around the Clock (Urban Bourbon) (1993); through doorway: Dusky Gaze (1969). Photo: Ron Amstutz
Inside 381 Lafayette: Rauschenberg’s New York Home and Studio Sixty Years On
2026 marks approximately sixty years since Robert Rauschenberg moved into his NoHo residence and studio, the last he would maintain in New York City and which today serves as the headquarters of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Rauschenberg’s 1982 calendar, August page (detail)
All the Small Things: Receipts and Ephemera in the RRF Archives
At the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, sometimes the smallest items open the biggest doors. As researchers’ primary point of access to the most comprehensive trove of documentation about the artist, the Robert Rauschenberg Papers provide a source of endless intrigue and potential.