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Installation view of Raid the Icebox Now on view 09-13-2019 through 09-06-2020 at the RISD Museum.

Raid the Icebox Now

September 13, 2019 - September 6, 2020
Installation view of Raid the Icebox Now on view 09-13-2019 through 09-06-2020 at the RISD Museum.

Introduction

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.

Dominic Molon

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November 14, 2019 / 11 am-12 pm

Raid the Icebox Now

August 23, 2019 - December 27, 2020
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Raid the Icebox Now
April 10, 2019 / 12-1 pm

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Manual / Issue 13: Storage

Museums usually make choices for viewers, their curators presenting what they think most important within a category. They can be so good at doing this that visitors sometimes don’t realize there’s anything else to see: they don’t realize the nature of the decisions behind an exhibition, and they accept that the elites have made a judgment about which shoe is the shoe to see. Visitors can learn about what’s great, but they don’t necessarily consider the process of discernment.

-Fred Wilson

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Raid the Icebox Now

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of its exhibition Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol, the RISD Museum has engaged 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.

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Andy Warhol

Untitled (Three shelves of shoes)

Andy Warhol

Untitled (Three shelves of shoes)

Andy Warhol

Untitled (Three shelves of shoes)

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