Rauschenberg didn't want the objects and signs and bits of nature he loved to be forgotten; part of his job as a master assembler was to change your mind about what the meaning of value was when it was attached to his ferocious still objects that moved, and leapt, and wooshed. - Hilton Als

Published on the occasion of the exhibition, "Robert Rauschenberg: Venetians and Early Egyptians, 1972-1984," May 4, 2022 - June 18, 2022, at Gladstone Gallery, New York.