Guggenheim Museum -- Robert Rauschenberg, "Life Can’t Be Stopped"

Robert Rauschenberg Life Can’t Be stopped at the Guggenheim Museum celebrates the artist’s 100 anniversary of his birth. Rauschenberg’s radical use of materials and media created outstanding and controversial art work using techniques far beyond the use of paint. Known for pushing the boundaries in art, his work was hard to classify and even harder to understand. 

Rauschenberg’s groundbreaking work was always a cacophony of things, complicated and full of juxtapositions while being messy, just the way he liked it. The center piece of the Guggenheim’s exhibition Life Can’t Be Stopped is Barge, done in 1962. A 32 ft. long painting that he remarkably created in a 24-hour period is filled with multiple images relating to transportation and transport along with unrelated images typical of Rauschenberg’s practice. This is a rare opportunity to see Barge since it’s last showing 25 years ago and become engrossed in Rauschenberg’s eclectic painting that tells the story of life in the United States.

A tour by a Guggenheim guide for CHV members will take place on Wednesday Dec. 17 @11:00. Please purchase your museum ticket prior to the tour and meet in the lobby of the museum at 10:45, Tour is limited to 15. To register for this event, click here, and click green button.

Event host,

Gail Casale