[Tango-L] Tango trivia: Robert Rauschenberg and La Boca

[Crrtango@aol.com]

The American artist Robert Rauschenberg died Monday.   He was multifaceted 
and worked in many media, including photography, using his own photographs in 
his work, which ranged from set designs for contemporary dance to paintings and 
prints. He was not known for dancing tango but he obviously visited Buenos 
Aires.   On the front page of the Arts section of the New York Times this morning 
(Wed. 5/14) is his set design for one of Merce Cunningham's pieces, 
"Interscape."   The vivid cubistic area in the lower right corner of the backdrop will 
be familiar to most of us who dance tango...it is the colorful painted tin 
facades of La Boca.

Cheers,
Charles


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