Andy Warhol’s Time Capsule Hoarding
Pop art legend Andy Warhol compulsively saved nearly everything—receipts, takeout menus, wigs, fan letters—and sealed them in boxes labeled “time capsules.” He made over 600 in his life, filling them with daily artifacts like a high-concept scrapbook from a chaotic mind.
The boxes now reside in museum archives, offering a peek into Warhol’s obsession with documenting the banal. Some contain toenail clippings; others, priceless art drafts. Warhol once said, “I want to be a machine.” His time capsules weren’t just collections—they were memory factories, preserving the pop world’s fleeting weirdness.
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