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TC86: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

Each Time Capsule holds on average 250 individual items, comprised mainly of everyday objects, seemingly unremarkable in and of themselves: cloth napkins, hotel toiletries, old packaging, stationery, newspapers, etc. However,…

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A group of people , including Andy Warhol's former personal and studio assistant Benjamin Liu open a Warhol time capsule.

TC528: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

It is not unusual for cataloguers working on the Time Capsule project to develop their own “relationships” with Warhol’s friends. It is easy to track the arrival and departure of…

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Four people including Andy Warhol's former personal and studio assistant Benjamin Liu view a Warhol time capsule's contents.

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Exploring TC206: Clue Party

It’s often helpful to remember to see the Time Capsules as what they are–artwork. Unlike many of Warhol’s works, which he created en masse, making them feel impersonal, what makes…

Back into the Trunk

Sometimes it takes a little digging to uncover all the treasures contained in a Time Capsule. For Trunk 1 it took three weeks, eight employees and over 80 archival folders…

TC339: Video of a Time Capsule Opening

Step inside the Archives with us as we open up TC 339 and make some interesting discoveries! We’ll follow this up with a second video discussing how we organize items…

TC318: Altoids Tins

Each item removed from the Time Capsules tells two stories. What the object was originally designed for (the creator’s intention) and what the object came to be, through the eyes of Andy…