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Robert Rauschenberg

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG

Life Can’t Be Stopped Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 10 October 2025–3 May 2026 New York
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This exhibition features over a dozen seminal works from the Guggenheim’s collection along with major loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, which together highlight the artist’s radical use of materials and media. Celebrating Rauschenberg’s 100th birthday, the show joins a global tribute to Rauschenberg’s boundary-pushing creativity, experimental spirit, and lasting impact on contemporary art.

The centerpiece of the exhibition is Barge (1962–63), a monumental 32-foot-long silkscreen painting made predominantly over a 24-hour period and the largest in a series of approximately 80 Silkscreen Paintings works the artist created between 1962 and 1964. This pivotal work returns to New York for the first time in nearly 25 years.

This exhibition is organized by Joan Young, Senior Director, Curatorial Affairs.

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About the Artist

Perhaps best known for his mixed media ‘Combines’, Robert Rauschenberg was an influential American avant-garde painter, and multi-disciplinary artist. From the late 1950s to the early 1970s he pioneered conceptual and technical developments in painting and assemblage as well as a slew of other disciplines.

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About the Gallery

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a landmark institution on New York’s Upper East Side, world-renowned for its iconic spiral building by Frank Lloyd Wright and celebrated collection of modern and contemporary art.

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Thursday: Closed

Saturday: 10am-7:45pm
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New York 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum contemporary art institution in New York United States
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue , New York City, New York, United States
212 423 3500
http://www.guggenheim.org

Opening hours
Sunday - Friday: 10am-5:45pm

Thursday: Closed

Saturday: 10am-7:45pm
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