Collection in Focus | Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped

At the Guggenheim in New York, “Collection in Focus | Robert Rauschenberg: Life Can’t Be Stopped” revisits the artist’s work through the museum’s own holdings, placing objects and ideas in close view rather than on a survey scale. Rauschenberg’s practice blurred boundaries between painting, sculpture, and everyday materials, a language that shaped postwar American art and still shadows contemporary installation. In a city where he worked and exhibited, the show reads as a reminder that experimentation is also a form of record-keeping. The framing can feel restrained, but it clarifies how much he built from what was already around him.