[analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Robert-Rauschenberg-Rasputins-Revenge-Early-Winter-Glut-1987.-Robert-Rauschenberg-Foundation.jpg?w=1024″]<\/p>\n
\n\tThe Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to Artist Rooms, a collection that is jointly managed by the London-based Tate museum network and the National Galleries of Scotland.<\/p>\n
\n\tThough Rauschenberg remains best known for his Combines from the postwar era, all three of the works given to Artist Rooms are part of a 1980s series called \u201cGluts.\u201d Like his Combines, these sculptures harvest ready-made materials borrowed from everyday life\u2014found pieces of metal, mostly, in this case\u2014and turn them into art.<\/p>\n
\n\tRauschenberg considered his \u201cGlut\u201d sculptures a commentary on excess. At the time Rauschenberg made them, the US was facing an oil surplus. He saw the existence of all this waste as a sign of social rot.<\/p>\n
\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a time\u00a0of glut,\u201d he once said. \u201cGreed is rampant. I\u2019m just\u00a0exposing it, trying to wake\u00a0people up. I simply want to present people\u00a0with their ruins . . . I\u00a0think of the\u00a0\u2018Gluts\u2019 as souvenirs without nostalgia.\u00a0What they are really meant to do is\u00a0give people an experience of\u00a0looking at everything in terms of what its\u00a0many possibilities might\u00a0be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\n\tWhile not necessarily one of Rauschenberg\u2019s most famous series, the sculptures have periodically been seen in major museums. The Guggenheim Museum mounted an entire show of them in 2009, the year after Rauschenberg died.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe sculptures given to Artist Rooms\u2014G-I Glut<\/em> (1986), Rasputin\u2019s Revenge Early Winter Glut<\/em> (1987), and Mobile Cluster Glut (Neapolitan)<\/em>, 1987\u2014will go on view this September at Tate Modern, in a gallery of 25 works by Rauschenberg.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThese three Gluts<\/em>, forged from the remnants of a particular moment, ask us to look squarely at what we value and what we discard,\u201d said Rauschenberg Foundation director Courtney J. Martin in a statement. \u201cCollaboration and intentionality were central to the artist\u2019s ethos.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n [analyse_source url=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/art-news\/news\/rauschenberg-foundation-tate-national-galleries-of-scotland-1234791631\/”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [analyse_image type=”featured” src=”https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Robert-Rauschenberg-Rasputins-Revenge-Early-Winter-Glut-1987.-Robert-Rauschenberg-Foundation.jpg?w=1024″] The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has given three works by the artist to Artist Rooms, a collection that is jointly managed by the London-based Tate museum network and the National Galleries of Scotland. Though Rauschenberg remains best known for his Combines from the postwar era, all three of the works given to Artist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,226],"class_list":["post-2042667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-artnews-com","tag-crawlmanager"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2042667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2042667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2042667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2042667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2042667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}