How Rauschenberg Became Picasso

“Like Picasso, Rauschenberg has been an art machine; just keep the wheels rolling and sooner or later inspiration will strike. And it will probably take others to tell you when it’s really happened. How unlike the Duchampian constipation-mode of creation. Another rule for art: You gotta have product; lots and lots of things to sell. And then it dawns on you that the curatorial lack of discrimination mirrors Rauschenberg’s own system. This is not good.”