Time Capsule illustrates Jason Rubells precocious collecting endeavors of the 1980s, including works by George Condo, Robert Gober, Andreas Gursky, Keith Haring, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, Cindy Sherman and Rosemarie Trockel.

By 1980 Walter Robinson (born 1950) had established himself as a critic for Art in America and member of the New York artists' collective Collaborative Projects. He became notable for paintings of square-jawed detective-hero types and swooning vixens based on pulp romance covers. Employing what critic Carlo McCormick termed a -devious sense of irony done with incredible sincerity, - he examined painting's relationship to mass-culture images of desire, mining lurid illustrations from the 1940s and 50s and rerepresenting them in a style culled from -how to paint- books. Robinson's...