Copyright 2008 The New York Sun Thu, 15 May 2008 01:43:01 -0400 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Articles from the Obituaries Section of The New York Sun. http://www2.nysun.com/section/20 istoll@nysun.com (Ira Stoll) webmaster@nysun.com en-us DANIEL KUNITZ http://www2.nysun.com/arts/robert-rauschenberg-1925-2008/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:32:42 EST I remember well the first time I saw Robert Rauschenberg, who died yesterday at age 82. It was at a Whitney Museum opening in the early 1990s, and the artist, whom I did not meet, stood in the galleries with a generous smile and a drink in his hand. As a curator informed me that Rauschenberg was the only person allowed into the galleries with a drink, the artist promptly dropped it, breaking the glass and spilling its contents across the floor. Rauschenberg was always an anarchic... STEPHEN MILLER http://www2.nysun.com/obituaries/robert-rauschenberg-82-protean-collage-artist/ Wed, 14 May 2008 01:32:42 EST Robert Rauschenberg, who died Monday at 82, was a foundational figure in American art. He helped spark the Pop Art movement and stayed in the forefront of the art scene, from the 1950s until his Metropolitan Museum of Art retrospective in 2005, as an enfant terrible-cum-éminence grise. His busy, collage-like constructions were originally constructed of detritus that in some cases were the only materials the impoverished young artist could afford. Conceived as a reaction against the sterile...