DAILY SKETCH: Rauschenberg @ Gagosian | Peter Blake, The Collector |

Fruitful Talent Who Made Art World Mutiply (NY Times)
"Robert Rauschenberg, the subject of a chock-a-block time capsule of a show at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, was an optimist and a doer. He not only did what artists normally do: make paintings, sculptures, prints and photographs. He also did the work of performers, musicians, philanthropists and career politicians."

Peter Blake, Sgt. Pepper Image Maker, Likes Crowd Scenes (Bloomberg)
"Peter Blake isn’t only an artist, he’s also a collector, of an unconventional sort.
Blake says he owns “what I’ve begun to bill as the worst doll collection in the world, which is made up broken, funny, celluloid dolls.” Another item is a set of small plastic models, described on the box as “people being frightened in B movies.”