OPEN NOW | Robert Rauschenberg & the News: Select Prints from The New School Art Collection, New York, NY
Poster for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality), 1965 Color offset lithograph and screenprint with varnish overlay 35 7/8 x 23 7/8 in. (91.1 x 60.6 cm). The New School Art Collection
Feb 19, 2026–Jan 4, 2027
The New School Art Collection and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics are pleased to present Robert Rauschenberg & the News: Select Prints from The New School Art Collection, an installation that brings together, for the first time, fifteen prints by Robert Rauschenberg held in the university’s collection. Created between the 1960s and 1990s, the works reveal the artist’s sustained engagement with the rapidly shifting political landscape of the twentieth century, registering urgent responses to moments of social and political unrest as they unfolded in real time.
Throughout his decades-long career, Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008) dedicated himself to critically examining what he famously described as the gap between art and life. His works made use of everyday materials—newspaper stories, headlines, photographs, and other fragments of mass media—capturing pivotal historical moments, from environmental disasters and industrial extractivism to the civil rights movement and anti-war protests.
