After Rauschenberg

The press didn't let me down when they allowed soulless but know-it-all professors of art history to write Rauschenberg's obituary. It was predictable. In an ideal world they would have waited for Jasper Johns, Merce Cunningham or some artist of similar station, that knew Rauschenberg well, to comment. Cunningham said:

"Together we erased boundaries between the arts."

I'm glad that I have had the pleasure to see Merce Cunningham at Stanford in recent years and I am sorry that I never had the opportunity to meet Robert Rauschenberg. I had so many questions for him.

I'm don't really want to deem the Slate with a direct reference (but will anyway http://www.slate.com/id/2191397). I have mixed feelings about Jack Shafer's superficial comments. Obviously, he felt it necessary to to be contrarian and I agree with his notes about the reporting. There is definitely room for more controversy. But obviously Shafer knows nothing about modern art.