Robert Rauschenberg Solo Exhibition Highlights Flight at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
A major new solo exhibition celebrating the career of Robert Rauschenberg has opened as part of the reopening programming for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC. Entitled The Ascent of Rauschenberg: Reinventing the Art of Flight, the presentation brings together 30 works by the influential artist, including several pieces that have never been shown to the public before.
Exploring Flight and Human Ambition in Museum Exhibitions
Running for a full year, the exhibition explores how aviation and flight served as recurring motifs throughout Rauschenberg's expansive artistic practice. Rather than focusing purely on mechanical subjects, the artist approached flight as a powerful metaphor for human imagination, collective collaboration, and soaring ambition.
Visitors to the Washington, DC museum can experience rare works drawn from prominent institutional and private collections. Key loans for the showcase have been secured from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the National Gallery of Art, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.
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