Ian Volner at Artforum:
From 1965 to 1970, Robert Rauschenberg made the building his personal and professional HQ, a place to live, work, and (if the story be true) provide surplus shellfish to whomever asked. “I think the house satisfied a mix of aesthetic necessities and social desires for him,” says Kathy Halbreich, lately the executive director of and now an adviser to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Since 1970, when the artist departed for roomier digs in Captiva, Florida, his eponymous organization has kept its offices in the building, remaining there even after Rauschenberg himself died in 2008 and well after bohemia had largely decamped from the neighborhood today known as NoHo. Tucked between a parking lot and the home of the New York University bursar, the five-story, redbrick, round-arch-style structure hides in plain sight, its anonymity somewhat abetted by the foundation’s low profile. “We’ve never really wanted to trumpet our location,” says Halbreich.
more here.