Thank you New York magazine for restoring my faith in you

I was all blue earlier this week about the de-gaying of Rauschenberg. But I’d missed, The second line in Jerry Saltz’s essay on Robert Rauschenberg, American Inventor, in New York. Where Jerry clearly, and plainly states:

Jasper Johns, his sometime lover, said, “Rauschenberg was the man who in this century invented the most since Picasso.

That’s all I, we, wanted. No big parade. No expose. Just a line in a major publication than aknoledges the very complex personal life of one of America’s national art icons. Thanks Jerry.

For the record. The LA Times also did a decent job of mentioning the relationship with Johns without getting all up in their business.

Together with painter Jasper Johns, with whom he was romantically linked, Rauschenberg was the most important American artist to emerge into prominence in the 1950s.

Sigh. Maybe this subtleness is progress after all.

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