The first volume focuses on his earlier writings that mark his desire to renew African art discourse to rewrite histories. The spirited community captured by Matsura counters endless assumptions and misrepresentations propagated in American art and literature about the “real” West. Like his one-time partner, Jasper Johns, Rauschenberg helped chart new realities for queer artists who were far more marginalized up until then. As someone who straddles the worlds of visual art and writing, ugh, what a dream. —LZPre-order on Bookshop | Museum of Modern Art, November 18, 2025