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Unboxed: A new app at The Warhol

Andy Warhol was an obsessive collector. Starting in 1974, he assembled 610 Time Capsules, putting together all sorts of things (from fanzines to food) into cardboard boxes and sending them…

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A close up view of a person's hand holding a cell phone against a pink and yellow screenprint of a cow's head.

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.

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Inside Time Capsule 526: A Portrait of King Edward VIII

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…

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…

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

Exploring TC206: High Times

An artist as prolific as Andy Warhol was bound to have their share of bizarre media coverage. In December of 1978, he and his good friend and collaborator Truman Capote…

Andy Warhol, dressed as Santa Claus, with author Truman Capote on the cover of the December 1978 issue of High Times magazine

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…

John Waters Opens a Time Capsule – BAD

Filmmaker John Waters stopped by the Warhol to offer his insight into a Warhol Time Capsule, and focused on the budget for Bad, some interesting photos, Joe Dallesandro, reminisced about…

John Waters Opens a Time Capsule – Discovering Photos

Filmmaker John Waters stopped by the Warhol to offer his insight into a Warhol Time Capsule, and focused on the budget for Bad, some interesting photos, Joe Dallesandro, reminisced about…

Exploring TC540: Artwork

Time Capsules is one serial artwork consisting of many boxes, each consisting of many items, although sometimes a TC contains an individual piece of art that stands on its own. We…

Exploring TC 540: Julia Warhola

Andy Warhol’s mother Julia Warhola moved from Pittsburgh to New York City in 1952, where she lived with Warhol until 1970.  In this video, we take a look at some…