The RISD Digital Image Database is proud to host a new collection called “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”, created by the Archives department in the Library in collaboration with the RISD Museum. The collection consists of twenty-eight images documenting the “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol” exhibition held at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 1970 April 23 – June 30. There are eleven installation images and seventeen images of objects in the Museum’s storage area.
In 1969, the RISD Museum invited Andy Warhol to curate an exhibition featuring works he selected from the museum’s permanent collection. The exhibition was eventually named Raid the Icebox. According to Judith Tannenbaum, curator of contemporary art at the RISD Museum, “Warhol was drawn to an eclectic mix of objects. He liked the cabinets of shoes in storage and displayed all of them exactly as they were stored. He also chose baskets, Navajo blankets, paintings, ceramics and costume accessories. He created an alternative museum. Raid the Icebox I has become a landmark exhibition, the precursor of “artist ’s interventions ” of the 1990s that rethink the nature of traditional collecting museums.”
We want to thank Denise Bastien from the RISD Museum and Andrew Martinez and Douglas Doe from the RISD Archives for digitizing and cataloging these images.
To view “Raid the Icebox I with Andy Warhol”, you will need to login to the RISD Digital Image Database with your RISD username and password.
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