Robert Rauschenberg designing a unicorn costume for his sister Janet for a Mardi Gras celebration, modeled by fellow student Inga (Ingeborg) Lauterstein at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, ca. 1949. Photograph Collection. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, New York. Photo: Trude Guermonprez
A Passion for Fashion: 100 Years of Rauschenberg's Fabric Artworks and Costume Designs
Robert Rauschenberg’s path into fine art started not in a studio, but on the stage. As a teenager in Port Arthur, Texas, he sketched and sewed costumes for school plays. Just a few years later, on the GI Bill, he enrolled as a fashion major at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Rauschenberg with Jasper Johns, John Cage, Louis Stevenson, and Bob Cato in Rauschenberg’s or Johns’s Pearl Street studio, New York, ca. 1956. Photo: Jerry Schatzberg
Open Call: 2026 Archives Research Residency
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for applications to the sixth annual Archives Research Residency, a one- to three-week research intensive at the Rauschenberg Foundation Archives in New York City.
Rauschenberg and Terry Van Brunt viewing a NASA space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral, circa 1983
All engines running. Liftoff!
An interview with NASA’s Lois Rosson on the launch of Apollo 11, NASA’s Artists Cooperation Program, and Robert Rauschenberg’s time at Cape Canaveral.
Robert Rauschenberg working on Oracle (1962-65) in his Broadway studio, New York, 1960s. Photo: Unattributed
Crank Up The Volume -- 100 Years of Rauschenberg's Sonic Legacy
Mercury Zero Summer Glut, 1987
Gladstone debuts an exhibition of over 30 rarely seen sculptures by Robert Rauschenberg
Presented in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation on the occasion of the artist’s Centennial, Gladstone is mounting the first survey of Rauschenberg’s sculptural practice in thirty years, spanning his production from the 1950s through the late 1990s.
Researchers in Residence, 2025
Announcing the 2025 Archives Research Residency Recipients
The Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Archives Research Residency, a program for individuals interested in conducting research in the Foundation Archives in New York City.
Robert Rauschenberg with Jasper Johns, John Cage, Bob Cato, and others, New York, ca. 1955. Photo: Jerry Schatzberg
Open Call: 2025 Archives Research Residency
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for applications to the fifth annual Archives Research Residency, a one- to three-week research intensive at the Rauschenberg Foundation Archives in New York City.
Robert Rauschenberg, Arcanum V, 1979
New at Gladstone Gallery: Robert Rauschenberg: Arcanums
In collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Gladstone presents an exhibition of Rauschenberg’s Arcanum series (1979).