Who is Robert Rauschenberg?
An illustrated lecture by Mary Lynn Kotz, author of RAUSCHENBERG / ART AND LIFE Wednesday, October 26, 7:30 pm Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 56 Broadway, downtown Asheville $10, $7 for BMCM+AC members and students with ID “It should be an exercise in pleasure! I’m in love with what I do.” -Robert Rauschenberg Robert Rauschenberg, who just turned 80, is arguably the most famous living artist in the world. “In the future, two artists will be remembered from the twentieth century,” predicted Thomas Krens, director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, “Pablo Picasso for the first half, Robert Rauschenberg for the second half.” Robert Rauschenberg came to Black Mountain College in 1948, to study with Josef Albers and stayed as student, teacher and artist-in-residence for the next several years. Mary Lynn Kotz, author of the prize-winning new edition of Rauschenberg/Art and Life (Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) will give a slide lecture, “Who is Robert Rauschenberg?”, cover
