JESSY RANDALL


Label for a Minimalist Painting

"Minimal artists did not seem to choose minimal standards of living." – Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (Picador, 2005).

A dish of caviar
inspired this painting.
Price: $50,000.


Dialogue for Five Voices

"In New York, several doyennes of the uptown art world had stopped inviting [Rauschenberg] to dinner because he never came less than two hours late and he always brought people with him – sometimes half a dozen or more." – Calvin Tomkins, Off the Wall: Robert Rauschenberg and the Art World of Our Time (Picador, 2005).

Entourage member #1: He doesn't want to be alone, that's my opinion.
#2: No, he just likes having friends around. He's friendly!
#3: He's rich and he likes to spend his money on others. What's wrong with that?
#4: He never talk to us, just listens.
#2: It's true that the TV is always on.
#5: He hardly ever paints any more.
#1: Things were better when Jasper was in the picture.
#4: Well I think he's a brilliant, brilliant artist.
#1: Me too.
#2, 3, and 5, overlapping: Me too, oh, me too.
#2: I just wish I could do something to make him happy.
#5: But you hardly know him!
#2: I know him better than you do!
(the voices recede, squabbling)