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00:00CHARLIE: ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG ONCE SAID THE ARTISTS ' S JOB IS TO BE A WITNESS TO HIS TIME IN HISTORY. FOR SIX DECADES HE SERVED THIS ROLE, WORKING IN PAINTING, SCULPTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE. A NEW EXHIBITION AT NEW YORK ' S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART BRINGS TOGETHER MORE THAN 250 OF THESE WORK. " ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: AMONG FRIENDS, " WAS ORGANIZED BY LEAH DICKERMAN, THE MARLENE HESS CURATOR AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. SHE JOINS ME NOW TO TALK ABOUT ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, ONE OF THE ARTISTS I HAVE THE GREAT PLEASURE TO HAVE KNOWN. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT HIM AND HIS ART AND SOMEONE HAVING THIS KIND OF RETROSPECTIVE ON THIS EXHIBIT AMONG FRIENDS, WITHIN THE OTHER GREAT ARTISTS, LIKE JASPER JOHNS. LEAH: LIKE JASPER JOHNS, CY TWOMBLY, MERCE CUNNINGHAM, JOHN CAGE, TRICIA BROWN. THE LIST OF PEOPLE HE COLLABORATED WITH IS SO FUNDAMENTAL TO WHAT WE THINK OF, IN TERMS OF CULTURE TODAY. THAT IS HOW WE APPROACH THE PROJECT. WE WANTED TO SHOW HE IS AN ARTIST WHO MADE WORK IN DIALOGUE WITH OTHER PEOPLE. AND TOGETHER, THEY LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR ART OF OUR MOMENT IN TIME. CHARLIE: WHAT DO YOU HOPE WE WILL EXPERIENCE, FEEL, SENSE, AS WE WALK THROUGH THIS EXHIBITION? LEAH: I HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A BIT SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE IDEA OF INDIVIDUAL GENIUS, THAT YOU GO OFF AND SIT IN YOUR GARRET AND THINK BY YOURSELF AND HAVE IDEAS ALONE, VISITED BY A MUSE, A FEMALE MUSE. THAT IS NOT THE WAY IT WORKS. IT IS NOT THE WAY IT WORKS IN SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION, OR IN ART. WE WANTED TO SUGGEST THAT THROUGHOUT RAUSCHENBERG ' S CAREER, YOU COULD CELEBRATE CREATIVITY IN CONVERSATION. HE COLLABORATES MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE. HE IS ALWAYS PULLING PEOPLE INTO HIS PROJECTS AND FINDING A WAY TO CREATE NEW WORKS WITH SOMEONE ELSE. WE WANT PEOPLE TO FILL THAT OPENNESS, AS WELL. CHARLIE: WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? LEAH: HE IS CERTAINLY A SOCIABLE CHARACTER. EVERYONE SPEAKS ABOUT HIS GREGARIOUSNESS. I THINK THAT HE LEARNED WHEN HE WENT TO BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE, THE OPEN, EXPERIMENTAL PLACE. THERE WAS DANCING AND POETRY AND MUSIC, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. HE LIKES THAT KIND OF COLLABORATIVE APPROACH TO MAKING ART ACROSS DISCIPLINES. I DO NOT THINK HE EVER LEFT THAT BEHIND.

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