Welcome to One good showwhere the viewing highlights a newly opened exhibit at a museum and not New York City, a place we know and love that just gets a lot of attention.
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Not that you have a bad idea on the face of it: people love to see how great skills add up to themselves and then together become greater than the sum of their parts. The same motivation lies behind “five friends: John Cage, Jobers Jobers, Jobert Rauschenberg, Robert Rauschenberg, Cybly,” a new exhibition at the Museum Ludwig will somehow examine these artists. The exhibition includes more than 180 works of art, paintings, scores, stage designs, costumes, photographs and films – and places their collaboration within the broader political and cultural context of 1950s-1970s America and Europe.
Anything could happen in this era, including the fact that these men were more than friends. At times their stories feel like a biopic: Rauschenberg and through the experiences of his lovers in early 1951, he met at Cunning Hall College, and he met Cunningham and Kage the following year in New York. Pollination is inevitable. Rauschenberg also worked from his first experience White paintings the year they met together. Since these generations are open, they actually stimulate the silent song of the cigarette 4’33” (1952).
Johns happens to have a studio right next to Rauschenberg and the beginning. His relationship with Rauschenberg would go on to be one of the most important in art history. I always had a soft spot for him Painted Bronze (Ale Cans) . But by the nature of this show, you clearly feel Ruuschenberg’s influence. His compilation also found that the sculptures are full of little jokes, the way one of the beers is open and the other is closed.
The movement between Cunningham’s dancers and the brush in which it is is the experience of this scene, and you may not see how many clothes rauschenberg made for cunningham. Among the best was a parachute dress made for it Antic encounters (1958). It manages the poof without compromising the restraining power and still shows a lot of human form. Amidst all this is the ephemera that reflects the friendship mentioned in the exhibition’s title. If you pass these letters, it seems that the cage is only passed on to his friends through Mesostic Poetry. The Fab Five proved that when you have a good circle, art and life are inseparable.
“Five friends: John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cybly“On view at the Ludwig Museum on January 11, 2026.
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