CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 5/21/2017

Celebrate one of the most fearlessly experimental artists of all time

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. See the monumental Robert Rauschenberg retrospective exhibition opening today at MoMA, and order your copy of the superb, comprehensive exhibition catalog here!