A new addition to the Jerry Robinson papers sheds a startling light on the early years of a storied comics artist and illustrator. In the Poconos, in the summer of 1939, Bob Kane–the artist who, with writer Bill Finger, had developed the character Batman a year earlier–spotted a teenager named Jerry Robinson, sporting a jacket […]
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Event | Oral history and art history meet with new project on Rauschenberg
February 15, 2018, 6:00 – 7:30 pm, Knox Hall 509, Columbia University The Columbia Center for Oral History Archives is anticipating the arrival of oral histories conducted about artist Robert Rauschenberg. For a sneak preview of the project, conducted by the Center for Oral History Research and INCITE, join us for this seminar detailing, “an […]