'Rauschenberg: Collecting and Connecting' Exhibition Opens at the Nasher Museum

The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents "Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting," offers a fresh look at 34 works of art that the artist reserved in his own collection. The exhibition, on view through Jan. 11, 2015, originated at Duke in collaboration with the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in New York. Two gallery pavilions organized into eight sections also includes works by artists in the Nasher Museum¿s collection, with special emphasis on Soviet nonconformists and conceptual art of the 1980s and 1990s on view for the first time. The exhibition also features 24 works from the newly acquired gift of more than 50 works by San Francisco artist Bruce Conner.The exhibition includes drawing, painting, collage, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, fresco, assemblage, photography and film. Professor Kristine Stiles, curator of the exhibition and France Family Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke, curated the exhibition with the assistance of Duke undergraduates Lauren Acampora, Katherine Hardiman, Emma Hart, Jacqueline Samy and Taylor Zakarin, who graduated with distinction for their work on the project. An online catalogue, featuring essays by Stiles and her students, is funded by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.