CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/19/2017

Almost impossibly rich and rewarding: Robert Rauschenberg opens at MoMA

This weekend, The Museum of Modern Art opens the mega-Robert Rauschenberg traveling retrospective that everyone’s been talking about. "From first to last," the show is "almost impossibly rich and rewarding," Adrian Searle wrote in The Guardian when the show opened at Tate. "Paintings made with dirt and paintings of nothing at all, images that encapsulate the achievements and disasters of 1960s America, a stuffed goat that looks like it has been feeding from a painter’s palette, and a mud-bath gurgling liquid cement like a lava pool. The exhibition moves through a life and career at gathering pace, from the early 1950s to the artist’s death in 2008. Room after room arrest us with yet another creative swerve, a shift in medium, scale, formal attack and presence."