Andy Warhol—
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Warhol’s expansive Time Capsule series comprises more than six hundred containers storing about two hundred objects each.

“What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it…it’s one less thing to think about, another load off your mind.”

Warhol’s Time Capsule project’s origins date to 1974, when he relocated his studio from 33 Union Square West to 860 Broadway. He and his employees had randomly placed the entire contents of the studio—including some artworks—in uniform cardboard boxes and after the move Warhol decided to leave the boxes intact, creating his own idiosyncratically organized personal archive. He continued to compile Time Capsules for the remainder of his career, hoping to one day exhibit, and perhaps even sell, the sealed boxes as conceptual sculptures.

On view as part of Warhol’s Time Capsule:
Giorno Poetry Systems, Envelope and announcement (from Giorno Poetry Series to A. Warhol postmarked April 18, 1974), 1974. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. TC100.16.2. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
On view as part of Warhol’s Time Capsule:
Marcel Duchamp, 1973. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. TC100.23.1a-b.
On view as part of Warhol’s Time Capsule:
Lou Reed, Rock n Roll Animal, 1974. The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. TC100.23.1a-b. © The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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This is Your Life: Music from Time Capsule #100 (TC100), 1974