<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:identifier>doi:10.7916/cz6w-ax76</dc:identifier><dc:title>Oral history interview with Thomas Buehler, 2015</dc:title><dc:creator>Buehler, Thomas</dc:creator><dc:format>oral histories</dc:format><dc:type>mixed material</dc:type><dc:subject>Art</dc:subject><dc:subject>Installations (Art)</dc:subject><dc:subject>Buehler, Thomas</dc:subject><dc:subject>Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008</dc:subject><dc:subject>Robert Rauschenberg Foundation</dc:subject><dc:subject>Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange</dc:subject><dc:description>Thomas Buehler describes his longtime collaboration and friendship with Robert Rauschenberg. Buehler details his journey from Germany to New York and his introduction to art shipping companies, including the events that led to him handling the Rauschenberg retrospective Werke 1950-1980 in 1979. He would later organize and travel with ROCI (Rauschenberg Overseas Cultural Initiative). He talks primarily of travel anecdotes and the technical aspects of shipping, installing, and storing various art pieces. Buehler discusses his experience with Rauschenberg during the last twenty years of his life. He details the purchase of storage spaces and the organization of the Chelsea warehouse before the move to Mount Vernon, NY</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>