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1 day ago · Valerie Jean Solanas (April 9, 1936 – April 25, 1988) was an American radical feminist known for her attempt to murder artist Andy Warhol in 1968, and the SCUM Manifesto, which she self-published in 1967. On June 3, 1968, Solanas went to The Factory, shot Warhol and art critic Mario Amaya, and attempted to shoot Warhol's manager, Fred Hughes ...
2 days ago · In 1968 Warhol was shot and nearly killed by Valerie Solanas, one of an assemblage of underground film and rock music stars, assorted hangers-on, and social curiosities who frequented his studio, known as the Factory.
4 days ago · POPism: The Warhol '60s is a 1980 memoir by the American artist Andy Warhol. It was first published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The book was co-authored by Warhol's frequent collaborator and long-time friend, Pat Hackett, and covers the years 1960–1969, focusing
3 days ago · In honor of the anniversary, the Museum of Modern Art has teamed up with the Andy Warhol Museum and the Empire State Building Observatory Experience for a screening of Empire on the 80th floor...
3 days ago · This weekend, an eight-hour silent film by Pop artist Andy Warhol will be playing at the Empire State Building ’s 80th-floor observatory. Titled Empire, the movie is all about the famous...
15 hours ago · They’ve reinvented themselves again and again, beginning as an eleven-piece mini-orchestra, slimming down to a five-piece touring machine (guitar, bass, drums, vibraphone/keys, violin), and now – in their 20th year together – creating a fresh, energized record that incorporates the visceral (“Valerie Solanas”), the meditative (“North American Grain”), the philosophical (“Too ...
5 days ago · Woodlawn met Andy Warhol at the Factory, at a screening of Flesh (1968). Through him she met Jackie Curtis, who cast Woodlawn in her play Heaven Grand in Amber Orbit in the autumn of 1969.