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Feb 21, 2017 · Warhol had cheated death once, in June 1968, when his surgeon gave even odds on the artist lasting the night. In their second go-round, death took the longer odds, and won.
- Andy Warhol Was The Most Recognized Artist Working in America.
- Valerie Solanas's Masterwork Was Her Scum Manifesto.
- Solanas Thought Warhol Was Trying to Steal Her Scum Manifesto.
- What Happened to The Woman Who Shot Andy Warhol?
- What Caused Andy Warhol's Death?
At the time he was shot, Andy Warhol“was easily one of the most recognized and popular artists working in America,” according to Jose Diaz, curator of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (where Warhol was born). A successful commercial artist in the 1950s, Warhol’s influential pop art paintings, including images of Campbell’s soup ca...
A radical feminist writer and activist and a bit player in the Factory universe, Valerie Solanas founded an organization called the Society for Cutting Up Men (SCUM), of which she was the sole member. Beginning in late 1965, she repeatedly tried to get Warhol to produce a play she had written called Up Your Ass, with little success. Warhol never pr...
At some point, Warhol misplaced the manuscript of her play (it later surfaced in a forgotten trunk, Diaz says), but Solanas instead came to believe that he was seeking to steal her intellectual property. In the weeks leading up to the shooting, Solanas called Warhol’s office repeatedly with threats and demands about her manuscript, until he stopped...
Several hours after the shooting, Solanas approached a policeman in Times Square and handed him her .32 semi-automatic as well as a .22 revolver. “He had too much control over my life,” she reportedly told the cop, a headline that was later splashed over the front cover of the New York Daily News. Solanas underwent several rounds of psychiatric eva...
The shooting had a major impact on his life and work, even beyond the considerable physical scars it left. He became much more guarded, abandoning much of his filmmaking and more controversial art and focusing more on business, founding what became Interview magazine in 1969. Warhol had shown interest in death and violence in his earlier work, incl...
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Feb 21, 2017 · It seems safe to say that, 30 years on from his unexpected death at the age of 58 in 1987, Warhol’s work still has secrets to reveal. This is despite the fact that Warhol has become one of...
This week marked 30 years since Andy Warhol’s death, but the artist still manages to intrigue us from the grave, especially with his time capsules packed full of objects.
Shortly before Warhol's death, doctors expected Warhol to survive the surgery, though a re-evaluation of the case about thirty years after his death showed many indications that Warhol's surgery was in fact riskier than originally thought. [159]
Apr 2, 2014 · In 1942, at the age of 14, Warhol again suffered a tragedy when his father passed away from a jaundiced liver. Warhol was so upset that he could not attend his father's funeral, and...
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Feb 1, 2007 · After her death, he didn’t shed even a crocodile tear. His narcissism was pure. Its facade would not crack. If someone died in the audience, he’d keep on performing (and watching).
