Announcing the 2026 Archives Research Residency Recipients
The Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Archives Research Residency, a program for individuals interested in conducting research in the Foundation Archives in New York City.
Russell Storer, Senior Curator and Associate Director of Curatorial Affairs, M+, and curator of Robert Rauschenberg and Asia. Image courtesy of M+ Hong Kong.
Process & Possibility: Three Questions With Russell Storer
When Robert Rauschenberg embarked on his far‑reaching projects across Asia in the 1980s as part of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI) project, he sought to expand the possibilities of artistic exchange: collaborating with local artisans, experimenting with new materials, and rei
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, New York, January 2023. Artworks by Rauschenberg, from left: Untitled (1986) and Around the Clock (Urban Bourbon) (1993); through doorway: Dusky Gaze (1969). Photo: Ron Amstutz
Inside 381 Lafayette: Rauschenberg’s New York Home and Studio Sixty Years On
2026 marks approximately sixty years since Robert Rauschenberg moved into his NoHo residence and studio, the last he would maintain in New York City and which today serves as the headquarters of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
Rauschenberg’s 1982 calendar, August page (detail)
All the Small Things: Receipts and Ephemera in the RRF Archives
At the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, sometimes the smallest items open the biggest doors. As researchers’ primary point of access to the most comprehensive trove of documentation about the artist, the Robert Rauschenberg Papers provide a source of endless intrigue and potential.
Robert Rauschenberg designing a unicorn costume for his sister Janet for a Mardi Gras celebration, modeled by fellow student Inga (Ingeborg) Lauterstein at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, ca. 1949. Photograph Collection. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives, New York. Photo: Trude Guermonprez
A Passion for Fashion: 100 Years of Rauschenberg's Fabric Artworks and Costume Designs
Robert Rauschenberg’s path into fine art started not in a studio, but on the stage. As a teenager in Port Arthur, Texas, he sketched and sewed costumes for school plays. Just a few years later, on the GI Bill, he enrolled as a fashion major at the Kansas City Art Institute.
Rauschenberg with Jasper Johns, John Cage, Louis Stevenson, and Bob Cato in Rauschenberg’s or Johns’s Pearl Street studio, New York, ca. 1956. Photo: Jerry Schatzberg
Open Call: 2026 Archives Research Residency
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation is pleased to announce an open call for applications to the sixth annual Archives Research Residency, a one- to three-week research intensive at the Rauschenberg Foundation Archives in New York City.
Rauschenberg and Terry Van Brunt viewing a NASA space shuttle launch at Cape Canaveral, circa 1983
All engines running. Liftoff!
An interview with NASA’s Lois Rosson on the launch of Apollo 11, NASA’s Artists Cooperation Program, and Robert Rauschenberg’s time at Cape Canaveral.
Robert Rauschenberg working on Oracle (1962-65) in his Broadway studio, New York, 1960s. Photo: Unattributed
Crank Up The Volume -- 100 Years of Rauschenberg's Sonic Legacy