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David Wojnarowicz, Magic Box, n.d., mixed media box, 20 x 28 x 43 cm, from the David Wojnarowicz Papers, Fales Library and Special Collections, NYU. Courtesy the artist and Galerie Buchholz, New York.

4-Magic-Box

A photograph of a collection of items categorized as “Magic Box,” belonging to artist David Wojnarowicz. It’s an orange crate that contains about eighty objects of all different kinds of media, everything from ants in amber, to money, to a monkey sculpture painted blue, which are all laid out on a white platform. The objects represent a symbolic set that Wojnarowicz worked with in all of his art, including in writing, photography, painting, installations, and performance. 

Cite this article as: , "4-Magic-Box," in VoCA Journal, March 28, 2017, http://journal.voca.network/creating-the-artist-archives-initiative-at-new-york-university/4-magic-box/.

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