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Introduction

Raid the Icebox Now

September 13, 2019 - September 6, 2020

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its exhibition Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol, the RISD Museum is engaging contemporary artists and designers Pablo Bronstein, Nicole Eisenman, Pablo Helguera, Beth Katleman, Simone Leigh, Sebastian Ruth, Paul Scott, and Triple Canopy to create new bodies of work or create a unique curatorial project using the museum as a site for critical, creative production and presentation. Employing the galleries and digital platforms as well as spaces beyond the museum walls, these artists will question dominant narratives and highlight the strengths and idiosyncrasies of the museum’s collection, which includes more than 100,000 works spanning ancient times to the present. A landmark example of artist-curated museum exhibitions, Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol (1970) presented entire sections of objects as they appeared in storage, with little or no connoisseurial regard for their condition, authenticity, or art historical status. It remains one of the most celebrated and subversive exhibitions in contemporary art history.

Raid the Icebox Now is made possible by a lead grant from the National Endowment for the Arts with additional support from the RISD Museum Associates, Judy and Robert Mann, Taylor Box Company, and a generous in-kind gift from Meyer Sound Laboratories.

RISD Museum is supported by a grant from the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, through an appropriation by the Rhode Island General Assembly and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, and with the generous partnership of the Rhode Island School of Design, its Board of Trustees, and Museum Governors.

Events

Talks and Conversations

Exhibition Preview: Raid the Icebox Now

April 10, 2019 / 12-1 pm
Talks and Conversations

Exhibition Overview

Raid the Icebox Now
October 3, 2019 / 12-1 pm
Think and Drink

Think and Drink

New American Scenery
October 17, 2019 / 6-8 pm
Talks and Conversations

43rd Gail Silver Memorial Lecture | Nicole Eisenman

October 23, 2019 / 6:15-8 pm
Talks and Conversations

Exhibition Overview: Raid the Icebox Now

2nd Session
November 19, 2019 / 12-1 pm
Talks and Conversations

Exhibition Overview: Raid the Icebox Now

(session 3)
February 27, 2020 / 12-1 pm

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Raid the Icebox Now

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Selected Objects

Andy Warhol

Untitled (Three shelves of shoes), 1969

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