Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg's "Retroactive I"

Robert Rauschenberg was in the middle of creating this portrait of John F. Kennedy when the president was assassinated. Hear Steven Zucker and Patricia Hickson, Emily Hall Tremaine Curator of Contemporary Art at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, discuss how his untimely death changed what would become Rauschenberg's Retroactive I (1963).

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