Robert Rauschenberg’s New York Home is Now Open by Appointment

The late-1960s home of artist Robert Rauschenberg, newly renovated and staffed with a team of archivists, is now open for appointment for those wishing to see the inside.Rauschenberg purchased the ten-story building at 381 Lafayette Street in 1965. Situated between Manhattan’s Noho and Soho neighborhoods, it was originally constructed as a townhouse in the early 1800s before it became an orphanage and school in the latter half of the century. Though the school relocated to Staten Island in