CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 10/22/2025

Celebrating the 100th birthday of Robert Rauschenberg

One of the most relentlessly experimental American artists of all time, Robert Rauschenberg choreographed and wrote the music for Pelican in 1963. First performed by Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham dancer Carolyn Brown and Swedish Fluxus artist Per Olof Ultvedt at the America on Wheels pop festival (held inside a Washington, D.C. roller skating rink), it was revived in 1965 for the historic First New York Theater Rally organized by Jewish Museum director/Venice Biennale curator Alan Solomon. Featured photograph, by Peter Moore, captures Rauschenberg in the 1965 happening, performed with Carolyn Brown and Judson Church dancer Alex Hay, which took place at a former CBS television studio in New York.