Residencies at the wild, shambly paradise resume this spring. Photo at top: Robert Rauschenberg fishing with his friend Julie Martin. This story appears in the March 2025 issue of Town & Country.

‘Every time I’ve moved, my work has changed radically,’ said the artist Robert Rauschenberg, who, after growing tired of living in New York in the 1960s, decided to buy a property in Captiva, Florida.

It sounds too good to be true, but the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s residency on Captiva welcomed 100 artists annually before Hurricane Ian flattened great swaths of Florida in 2022—and ...

It joins museums around the world in celebrating the revolutionary artist, who spent the last half of his life in Florida.

It sounds too good to be true, but the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s residency on Captiva welcomed 100 artists annually before Hurricane Ian flattened great swaths of Florida in 2022—and ...