Rauschenberg

At MoMA, a massive Rauschenberg retrospective Glenstone adds a new pavilion, to house a giant Richard Serra work Maya Lin’s Ghost forest is a warning.

Wall text in both exhibitions is open about a subject Johns has been particularly unwilling to engage with — his sexuality, his relationship with Rauschenberg and the impact of their breakup on the artist’s emotional life.

Catalogue essays broach the topic more courageously than the Museum of Modern Art was willing to venture four years ago in its mammoth Rauschenberg exhibition.

Rauschenberg, who was almost five years his senior, was charismatic.

Where Johns was guarded, introverted, damaged, Rauschenberg was gregarious, openhearted, charming.

Robert Rauschenberg is photographed like a schoolboy prankster with his tongue poking out.

Ditto on the East Coast, with Robert Rauschenberg, Warhol, and Lichtenstein, as part of his documentary of Pop Art.

A month after meeting Stella, Castelli showed Cy Twombly, another Southerner like Rauschenberg and Johns.

One rainy morning in 1953, Rauschenberg woke up to see Fulton Street empty of traffic.

Rivalry between the two camps was fierce: Famously, Rauschenberg once erased a Willem de Kooning drawing.