«I JUST READ EVERYTHING»

Artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns had a passionate but tumultuous affair between 1954 and 1961, years when homophobia was rampant and Sen. Joseph McCarthy was busy accusing everyone of being a communist. Playwright Don DeNicola’s “Paint” begins with the breakup and imagines the professional rivalry and what remained of their friendship thereafter. He is careful to state that this is “unauthorized” by both Johns and the Rauschenberg estate and that this is fiction.

-San Diego Gay & lesbian News
June 14 2011