Robert Rauschenberg painted fast and broke all the rules. In his world, taxidermied birds could fly out of oil paintings, and an erased De Kooning drawing could be imagined as his own work. At the same time, Rauschenberg had a careful conscience. Irreverence provided a channel for his moral sensitivity, which, accordingly, was not moralistic. He grew up in Port Arthur, where the Texas Oil Boom began, and later lived in Captiva, an island off the Gulf Coast of Florida. On these shores he witnessed oil spills and declining bird populations. “Handle with Care” focuses on Rauschenberg’s sense of responsibility to vulnerable living things, particularly around ecological concerns. —Jimmy Lux Fox