The artwork that I’m thinking of is “Erased de Kooning Drawing” by Robert Rauschenberg, which was made in 1953. You know, ...

Willem de Kooning needed some paint. It was 1948. The artist was working in a studio on Fourth Avenue in Greenwich Village, intensely focused on completing the paintings for his first solo exhibition, ...

Collaboration, for Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham, began with the arrangement of chairs. In the summer of 1952, when Rauschenberg was 26 and Cunningham was 33, both were living at Black ...

When Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) enrolled at Black Mountain College, in 1948, ravenous to learn everything he could about art in general and about the art that he wanted to make, the photographer ...

FIRST ON FOX: Actor Robert De Niro was in the nation's capital Wednesday sitting in the same crowded courtroom as President Donald Trump and some of his closest advisors during oral arguments by the ...

Willem de Kooning, the Dutch American artist widely celebrated for his contributions to the Abstract Expressionist movement, was still searching for recognition as a 37-year-old painter when the ...

How does one classify an artist who spent their whole career defying classification? The Princeton University Art Museum’s latest exhibit, “Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945–50,” takes ...

Hear from two de Kooning experts on the task of writing about the artist’s life and practice in the 1940s. Mark Stevens, coauthor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography De Kooning: An American Master ...

Smithsonian curator Carolyn Russo’s new book The Ascent of Rauschenberg explores the artist’s fascination with flight Carolyn Russo My head said for the first time Moon was going to have company and ...

The political back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and Robert De Niro has been building for nearly a decade. After years of back and forth, the war of words between Trump and actor De Niro ...

As a forerunner of Pop art, Texas-born artist Robert Rauschenberg’s impact on the contemporary art world is immeasurable. Famed for painting, photography and performance, his sculptural practice may ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick The Trisha Brown Dance Company is presenting a stellar double bill of Rauschenberg-designed works by Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown.