The Andy Warhol Museum has recovered artwork Andy Warhol made in the mid-1980s on a Commodore Amiga home computer. It all started with a YouTube clip of Andy Warhol at the Amiga launch event, making a portrait of Debbie Harry. Artist Cory Arcangel saw the clip and embarked on trying to find the images. Working with curators from the Carnegie Museum of Art and the Warhol Museum’s chief archivist, they found Amiga floppy disks. Fortunately, Carnegie Mellon University Computer Club is known for its “collection of obsolete computer hardware” and was able to easily extract many doodles, photographs, and riffs on classic Warhol images like the banana, Marilyn Monroe, and, as you can see below, the Campbell’s soup can. Also, below you can see a self-portrait and a three-eyed Birth of Venus. Even though it’s only been a few hours since they’ve been made public, Jay Z has already written a verse about them.

Andy Warhol, Campbell’s, 1985, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum Photo: Andy Warhol, Campbell’s, 1985, ?The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum

Andy Warhol, Venus, 1985, ©The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum Photo: Andy Warhol, Venus, 1985, ?The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visuals Arts, Inc., courtesy of The Andy Warhol Museum