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58 a lIar anD a thIeF “One day I left it in the laundry room to be washed and when I came back to the dryer it was gone. And the next time I saw it was in Leo Castelli’s gallery.” —Dorothea Rockburne talking about the quilt used in Bed in the film Rauschenberg: Man at Work (Home Vision Arts, 1997) Sometimes Rauschenberg says he used the quilt because he ran out of canvas. Sometimes he says it was more deliberate. Either way, he stole the quilt out of a North Carolina washing machine from a girl he barely knew, and never told her. He’s a liar and a thief! And here I am now, wishing he’d steal from me, wondering if he could want something of mine. ...

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