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An Education Program Inspired by Artist Corita Kent

February 2, 2015 By Heather White

In 2009 Artist Educator Mary Tremonte and I received funding for a new youth program titled Power Up. This program would focus on empowering young women in their communities. The goal of…

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TC86: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

January 26, 2015 By Erin Byrne

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,…

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

Exposures

January 12, 2015 By Paul Matarrese

On Black Friday of last year we launched a new project for The Warhol: a store within a store, featuring curated artist goods. It’s one half of a project we’re calling…

A Swatch for Christmas

December 22, 2014 By Jessica Warchall

It’s widely known that Andy Warhol enjoyed the Christmas holiday. During the 1950s when he worked as a commercial designer, Warhol made hundreds of personal Christmas drawings and greeting card…

Andy Warhola’s Living Room

December 5, 2014 By Daniel Pillis

I was thrilled to be asked by The Warhol’s Director, Eric Shiner, and Warhol staff to create a window installation for the new series Exposures, working in the tradition of…

Artwork Stories

Inside Time Capsule 526: A Portrait of King Edward VIII

October 24, 2014 By Jessica Warchall

Time Capsule 526—filled with Andy Warhol’s personal items mostly from 1982—was originally catalogued in October 2012. Recently, The Warhol archives team removed it from storage to get it ready to…

Bug Bits For Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno

September 30, 2014 By Jane Hyland

When a bug ends up suffocating for science, in a killing jar, put there by a collector or entomologist, to be taken back to the museum to be scientifically or…

The New Film and Video Gallery at The Warhol

September 8, 2014 By Josh Jeffery

Most first-time visitors to The Warhol as well as newcomers to Warhol’s history and practice are surprised to learn about the artist’s prolific body of work in film and video.…

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TC528: Opening a Warhol Time Capsule with Benjamin Liu

August 11, 2014 By Erin Byrne

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…

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