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October 03, 2024

For such a theatrical title as Autobiography, a Robert Rauschenberg exhibition in California is surprisingly small — with only eight works on view, to be exact. Perhaps a more fitting word to encapsulate the show, as writer Lorissa Reinhart explains in her review today, is “focus.”

That’s one characteristic we have in spades this week, despite being pulled in a million different directions: In New York, activists call for the repatriation of objects at the Rubin Museum when it permanently closes its doors on Sunday, while Paris’s Musée du Quai Branly apologizes for using a term the Chinese government employs to erase Tibetan heritage. Other stories include an endearing show in Iowa about Keith Haring’s bond with elementary school art students and a giant touring nude Donald Trump doll that popped up in Las Vegas (apparently, not everything that happens there stays there).

And as you fill out your fall calendar, consider our recommendations for exhibitions you should visit in New York this month, plus Leia Genis’s guide to events during Atlanta Art Week.

There’s more below, but before you get reading: I hope you’ll join us next Wednesday at the Red Pavilion in Brooklyn to celebrate Hyperallergic’s 15th anniversary (our quinceañera, if you will)! Grab your ticket here!

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An Intimate Autobiography of Robert Rauschenberg

In many ways, Autobiography, a small Rauschenberg exhibition in Santa Barbara, is self-explanatory, and this is its great strength. | Lorissa Rienhart

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