Raid the Icebox, 1970

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.

- Judith Tannenbaum


He placed paintings on the floor leaning against walls stacked two and three deep, while shoes were exhibited in mass in a large cabinet meant to be viewed and touched as if in a person’s own closet. This radical form of exhibition broke institutional rules about the display and value of certain objects over others.

- The Andy Warhol Museum