Warhol

The Time Capsules are Warhol’s largest collecting project, in which he saved source material for his work and an enormous record of his own daily life. Warhol began creating his Time Capsules in 1974 after relocating his studio. He recognized that cardboard boxes used in the move were an efficient method for dealing with all of his “stuff.” Warhol selected items from the daily flood of correspondence, magazines, newspapers, gifts, photographs, business records, and material that passed through his hands to put in the open box by his desk. Once the box was full he sealed it with tape, marked it with a date or title, and put it in his archive. Collectively, this material provides a unique view into Warhol’s private world, as well as a broad cultural backdrop illustrating the social and artistic scene during his lifetime. From the early ’70s until his death in 1987, Warhol created 612 finished Time Capsules.

Warhol constantly scoured auction houses, antique stores, and particularly flea markets for new treasures to add to his many collections. Warhol collected Fiestaware, World's Fair memorabilia, Art Deco silver, Native American objects, and folk art. He often acquired large collections as well—Hollywood publicity stills, crime scene photographs, and dental molds. All of these activities reflected his interest in Pop Art and his inspiration: consumer culture.

Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules were almost completely unknown until his death in 1987.

Packing up Union Square was a Herculean undertaking. Warhol was a shopaholic and inveterate collector who threw nothing out. His studio was jam-packed with all the bric-à-brac he had amassed since he moved to New York in 1949, with only $200 in his pocket and a portfolio of delicate drawings under his arm.

Anything he deemed worth keeping - correspondence, books, newspaper clippings, rare exhibition catalogues, business files, Velvet Underground records and presents - was thrown into brown cardboard boxes and sent to the new studio.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/3666842/Lifting-the-lid-on-Warhols-Time-Capsules.html
"What you should do is get a box for a month, and drop everything in it and at the end of the month lock it up," he advised in his 1975 book The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again). "Now I just drop everything into the same-size brown cardboard boxes that have a colour patch on the side for the month of the year."

What's the strangest thing Wrbican has discovered in a capsule?
"A mummified human foot," he says.
Other outlandish finds include a pizza and a slice of birthday cake.
                                My first impressions

Although Warhol is Renaud for his contribution to the pop art movement i think his time capsules are inspiring. My first impression of Andy Warhol's time capsule is that it is a pieces of conceptual art in itself, offering an insight into the workings of his brain, his life and also the culture of the 60s. I particularly like the fact that his colecteing becme obsssive and some of the objects found are random and quirky revealing a valid view of his life.