Little boxes, little boxes.

Art Catching up on the pre-Christmas This American Life, I heard yet again of people doing would might be my perfect job. Andy Warhol's Time Capsules was a collecting project in which the artist, from 1974 onwards, stored personal items in anonymous cardboard boxes, six hundred and twelve of them.

Generally kept secret during his lifetime, they were discovered when he died and since there's been an ongoing project to open and discover exactly what's in them.

Starlee Kine meets the staff at the Warhol Museum undertaking the task.


See also Stanley Kubrick's boxes, I expect. And since we're on the subject:


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