It’s Rauschenberg Time

Dec. 8, 1967 issue of Time Magazine, with cover by Robert Rauschenberg, at Gallery98 To mark the 101st anniversary of Robert Rauschenberg’s birth today, @davidhudson posted the 1967 Time Magazine cover Rauschenberg designed around Arthur Penn’s film, Bonnie & Clyde. Robert Rauschenberg, Storyline I, 1968 from Reels (B + C), lithograph, 21 1/2 x 17 in. sheet, ed. 62, collection MoMA Which is far more legible and pictorial than the Bonnie & Clyde-related lithographs Rauschenberg went on to publish at Gemini in 1968, Reels (B + C). [Which reminds me that the Gemini GEL catalogue raisonné at the NGA is still down, and the Internet Archive shoebox full of jpgs Gemini and the NGA are offering during this 2-year upgrade somehow does not include Robert Rauschenberg? Is it really impossible to just put the old folder back until you’re done, people? Are you really writing straight into the CMS on the live server?] #toosoon: Robert Rauschenberg’s rejected proposal for the cover of Time, 1964,…