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Time Capsule, 1970: Robert Rauschenberg’s Currents

Calvin Brown, Princeton University Art Museum

February 8, 2019 · 2:00 pm · Princeton University Art Museum

Princeton University Art Museum

A lecture by Calvin Brown, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, in conjunction with the exhibition “Time Capsule, 1970: Rauschenberg’s Surface Series from Currents.” In 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, the American artist Robert Rauschenberg exhibited “Current,” an ambitious printmaking project created from newspapers that chronicles the social and political upheavals of the period.

A reception will follow.

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