"would you know what a real gun looked like?"" In a 2009 interview with James Barron of ""The New York Times"", Feiden said that she knew Solanas intended to kill Warhol, but could not prevent it. (A ""New York Times"" assistant Metro editor responded to an online comment regarding the story, saying that the ""Times"" ""does not present the account as definitive."") Fahs additionally cites Assistant District Attorney Roderick Lankler's handwritten notes on the case, written on June 4, 1968, which begin with Margo Feiden's stage name, ""Margo Eden"", address, and telephone numbers at the top of the page. Later"
"England and became the assistant editor of the Royal Opera House magazine ""About the House"" from 1962 to 1968, and while still in England became the founding editor of Art and Artists magazine from 1965 to 1968. Amaya also wrote books on art, such as ""Pop As Art: A Survey of the New Super Realism"" (1965), ""Art Nouveau"" (1966), and ""Tiffany Glass"" (1967). On June 3, 1968, Amaya was in Andy Warhol’s office when radical feminist Valerie Solanas opened fire and shot both Amaya and Warhol. Amaya, 34 at the time, was discharged from the hospital after receiving treatment of"
"(1972) and ""Honi Soit"" in 1981. One of Warhol's last works was a portrait of Aretha Franklin for the cover of her 1986 gold album ""Aretha"", which was done in the style of the ""Reigning Queens"" series he had completed the year before. Warhol strongly influenced the new wave/punk rock band Devo, as well as David Bowie. Bowie recorded a song called ""Andy Warhol"" for his 1971 album ""Hunky Dory"". Lou Reed wrote the song ""Andy's Chest"", about Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Warhol, in 1968. He recorded it with the Velvet Underground, and this version was released on"
"become entrenched to pursue a rock tour and planning of their second album: ""White Light/White Heat"". Andy Warhol was shot by radical feminist Valerie Solanas, immediately after the split, and only narrowly survived the ordeal. Reed’s song was written in sympathy and in thanks to Warhol. The title indicates to the substantial scar across Warhol’s chest (the shot went through both lungs, spleen, stomach, liver, and esophagus) and also refers to Warhol’s factory, a fantastic menagerie of bizarre, wonderful and precarious characters that the songs surreal lyrics describe. Andy's Chest ""Andy's Chest"" is a song written by Lou Reed, inspired"
"of the same name and declared that revolutionary art should be ""an integral part of life, as in primitive society, and not an appendage to wealth"". In May 1968, Black Mask changed its name and went underground. Their new name, Up Against the Wall Motherfuckers, came from a poem by Amiri Baraka. Abbie Hoffman characterized them as ""the middle-class nightmare... an anti-media media phenomenon simply because their name could not be printed"". Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist and would-be assassin of Andy Warhol, was friends with Morea and associated with the Motherfuckers. In the film ""I Shot Andy Warhol"", the"
"point blank, but the gun jammed. Solanas then turned herself in to the police. She was charged with attempted murder, assault, and illegal possession of a gun. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to ""reckless assault with intent to harm"", serving a three-year prison sentence, including treatment in a psychiatric hospital. After her release, she continued to promote the ""SCUM Manifesto"". She died in 1988 of pneumonia in San Francisco. Solanas was born in 1936 in Ventnor City, New Jersey, to Louis Solanas and Dorothy Marie Biondo. Her father was a bartender and her mother a dental"
"theater, a renovated neo-gothic cathedral at 110 McAllister St. in San Francisco. In 1999, Coates became the first to acquire the rights to Valerie Solanas' long-lost work ""Up Your Ass"", which had been lost by Andy Warhol (for which Solanas shot him) and discovered at the Andy Warhol Museum thirty years later. The production, which was retitled ""Up Your A$$"" by Coates and made its world premiere in 2000 at his San Francisco theater, was regarded one of the raunchiest and most controversial shows around, with an all-female cast, many of which were dressed in drag. The play was mounted"
"prominent radical feminist Valerie Solanas, who was on trial for the attempted murder of Andy Warhol. After the 1971 rebellion at Attica Prison in New York State arose as a result of human rights abuse, the issue of solidarity arose between the black power movement and the feminist movement, often forcing activists to choose between the two. Kennedy addressed the discord that feminists had against those who supported both the black power movement and feminism by saying: ""We do not support Attica. We ARE Attica. We are Attica or we are nothing."" In 1973 Kennedy co-founded with Margaret Sloan-Hunter the"
"Andy's Chest ""Andy's Chest"" is a song written by Lou Reed, inspired by the 1968 attempt on Andy Warhol's life. In June 1968, radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and Mario Amaya, art critic and curator, at Warhol's studio. The band The Velvet Underground of which Reed was a member, initially recorded the song in 1969, but the definitive version appears on Lou Reed's 1972 own release: ""Transformer"", co-produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson. The original 1969 recording of the song, eventually released on the album VU in 1985, is an upbeat pop track. The widely known arrangement"
"Yoko Ono are, among others, ambassadors of the Non-Violence Project. NVP's signature logo is the Non-Violence also known as the Knotted Gun. It has been created by the Swedish artist, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd as a memorial tribute to John Lennon after he was shot and killed on December 8, 1980, in New York City. One of the 3 original bronze sculptures is displayed at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The Knotted Gun has become a worldwide symbol of the non-violence movement. Several replicas of this sculpture can be found around the world, including the Olympic Museum in"
"was at this time that Harron became interested in the life of Valerie Solanas, the woman who attempted to kill Andy Warhol. Harron suggested making a documentary about Solanas to her producers, who in turn encouraged her to develop the project into what would be her first feature film. Harron says she owes her success with her first film to Andy who helped to sell the controversial focus on the attempted murderess, Solanas. Harron's feature film directorial debut, ""I Shot Andy Warhol"", released in 1996, is the partially imagined story of Valerie Solanas' failed assassination attempt on Andy Warhol. She"
"the rest of his life, including being required to wear a surgical corset. The shooting had a profound effect on Warhol's life and art. Solanas was arrested the day after the assault, after turning herself in to police. By way of explanation, she said that Warhol ""had too much control over my life."" She was subsequently diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and eventually sentenced to three years under the control of the Department of Corrections. After the shooting, the Factory scene heavily increased security, and for many the ""Factory 60s"" ended. Warhol had this to say about the attack: ""Before I"
"film was screened in the ""Un Certain Regard"" section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was selected to be shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. The film opens moments after the shooting, quickly followed by a scene with Valerie Solanas in custody for shooting Andy Warhol. The film then uses flashbacks to when Valerie is living in New York making a living as a sex worker, then to her difficult childhood, then to her success in studying psychology at college. Here, Valerie discovers that"
"until Warhol returned around 4pm. Within a few minutes, she shot Warhol three times, seriously wounding him, as well as shooting Mario Amaya. Solanas turned herself in to the police a few hours later. Around 1970, Warhol built a video camera system and taped his visitors and documented the activities around the studio. In 1973, Warhol moved the Factory to 860 Broadway, a short distance away. As part of packing up, he began to create the Warhol Time Capsules. The building had been vacant and was completely refurbished into apartments by Joseph Pell Lombardi in 1995. Since 2015, the ground"
"explains her interest in Solanas' life: While Solanas was never able to produce her play, Harron was able to make her movie and was able to tell Solanas' story. ""I Shot Andy Warhol"" does not glorify Valerie Solanas; it pleads her case by showing that she was the product of a larger system of cruelty, and was not a lunatic, but a frustrated member of society. Harron's second film, ""American Psycho"", released in 2000, is based on the book of the same title by Bret Easton Ellis, which is notorious for its graphic descriptions of torture and murder. The protagonist,"
"was published in 1968, the same year that Solanas, who had spent time in Andy Warhol's ""Factory"", shot and nearly killed him. It also has sections that address art ideas. Solanas spent her last years as a street prostitute and died in 1988. It is a document of just over 11,000 words. Its tone and basic theme are evident from the title, but it is not quite as clear cut as it seems and some women are admitted to be as bad as men (women artists, for example). SCUM wants to ""destroy all useless and harmful objects — cars, store"
"23 July 2008. The singer did not attend the unveiling, although her parents did. A sculpture by Marco Perego, titled ""The Only Good Rock Star Is a Dead Rock Star"", that depicts Winehouse lying in a pool of blood with an apple and a bullet hole in her head after being shot by American novelist and Beat poet William S. Burroughs (in a recreation of the accidental killing of his wife Joan Vollmer), was scheduled to go on display in New York's Half Gallery on 14 November 2008 with a sale price of US$100,000. Perego said of the sculpture: ""Rock"
"to please ask Dorothy not to do that again. Podber was, however, henceforth barred from The Factory for life. Shot Marilyns The Shot Marilyns is a work of art produced in 1964 by Andy Warhol. It consists of four canvases, each a square measuring 40 inches and each consisting of a painting of a Marilyn Monroe, each shot through in the forehead by a single bullet. Warhol actually painted five colored Marilyns in 1964 with different colored backgrounds: red, orange, light blue, sage blue, and turquoise and he stored them at The Factory, his studio on East 47th Street in"
"""S.C.U.M. Manifesto"", a separatist feminist tract that advocated the elimination of men; and appeared in the 1968 Warhol film ""I, a Man"". Earlier on the day of the attack, Solanas had been turned away from the Factory after asking for the return of a script she had given to Warhol. The script had apparently been misplaced. Amaya received only minor injuries and was released from the hospital later the same day. Warhol was seriously wounded by the attack and barely survived: surgeons opened his chest and massaged his heart to help stimulate its movement again. He suffered physical effects for"
"originally going to be directed by Roman Polanski for United Artists in 1969, with Polanski writing the script. However, while Polanski was in London, England, looking for filming locations in August 1969, his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was murdered in their Beverly Hills home by disciples of Charles Manson. Polanski returned to the United States and abandoned the project. The following year it was announced Franklin Schaffner would make the movie for the Mirisch Corporation. These plans were frustrated and Joseph Levine ended up buying the project from United Artists for Mike Nichols. The film was mostly shot"
"classified."" Long out of print, ""The Paper Snake"" was re-printed by Siglio Press in 2014. On June 3, 1968 - the same day that Andy Warhol was shot by Valerie Solanas with a gun she'd stored under May Wilson's bed – Johnson was mugged at knifepoint. Two days later, Robert Kennedy was assassinated. Severely shaken, Johnson moved to Glen Cove, Long Island, and the next year bought a house in nearby Locust Valley, where Richard Lippold and his family resided. He began to live in a state of increasing reclusion in what he called a ""small white farmhouse with a"
"I Shot Andy Warhol I Shot Andy Warhol is a 1996 American-British independent film about the life of Valerie Solanas and her relationship with the artist Andy Warhol. The film marked the feature film directorial debut of Canadian director Mary Harron. The film stars Lili Taylor as Valerie, Jared Harris as Andy Warhol, and Martha Plimpton as Valerie's friend Stevie. Stephen Dorff plays Warhol superstar Candy Darling. John Cale of The Velvet Underground wrote the film's score despite protests from former band member Lou Reed. Yo La Tengo plays an anonymous band that is somewhat reminiscent of the group. The"
"the documentary, The Changing Face of Liza Minnelli, 2012, from the BBC series, ""The ... Face of."" Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol because Solanas believed that the publicity that she would receive from the shooting would convince Margo Feiden to produce her play. In her 2014 biography, ""Valerie Solanas"", Breanne Fahs states that Solanas was at the Actor's Studio that morning looking for Lee Strasberg, asking to leave her play for him. Sylvia Miles states that she told Solanas that Strasberg would not be in until the afternoon, and accepted a copy of the play from Solanas. Fahs records that"
"a bank in Nice of 10 francs using a sawn-off shotgun; and cut the tip off one of his own fingers at an art exhibition in Colombia, V Festival de Performance de Cali, in protest at FARC guerillas holding the French-Colombian politician Íngrid Betancourt hostage. Pierre Pinoncelli Pierre Pinoncelli (born 15 April 1929, Saint-Étienne, Loire, France) is a performance artist most noted for damaging two of the eight copies of ""Fountain"" by Marcel Duchamp with a hammer, as a statement that the work had lost its provocative value. The most recent attack happened on January 4, 2006 at Centre Pompidou"
"(a former girlfriend of Castelli's from Trieste), Eugene Berman, and other artists in the force field of Surrealism. Ileana's connections enabled the couple to flee to America at the start of World War II. Castelli's parents did not escape but died in Budapest, hounded by members of Hungary's fascist Arrow Cross Party. The couple would remain married for more than 25 years, and were friends and partners even after their divorce, when Ileana married Michael Sonnabend and that couple opened its own gallery. Castelli arrived in the United States in 1941, by way of Marrakesh, Tangier, Algeciras, Vigo and Havana."
"on the terrace outside the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Before the dedication at the museum, an Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) trio disguised as gardeners attempted to plant explosive-filled flowerpots near the sculpture, but was foiled by Basque police officer Jose María Aguirre, who then was shot dead by ETA members. Currently the square in which the statue is placed bears the name of Aguirre. In the summer of 2000, the statue traveled to New York City for a temporary exhibition at Rockefeller Center. Media mogul Peter Brant and his wife, model Stephanie Seymour, commissioned Koons to create a duplicate of the"
"democracy in 1983. He continued to make political films and was an outspoken critic of Carlos Menem, the Argentine President. Three days after such a public criticism, on 21 May 1991, Solanas was shot six times in his legs. Despite dealing with the attack and disability, Solanas became even more involved in politics and stood to be a Senator for Buenos Aires, receiving 7% of the vote in 1992. A year later he was elected a National Deputy for the Frente Grande list, although he left the party after a year. Solanas continues to write and direct, including the 2005"
"rifle, or miniature cannon, causing the liquids to ""bleed"" or to spray out. Her first staged public shooting event was in February 1961, attended by Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, and Pierre Restany, among others. As founder of the ""Nouveau réalisme"" (""New Realist"") movement, Restany asked Saint Phalle to join this group of French artists upon seeing her performance; she was the only female member of this group. These extreme expressions of violence attracted media attention, catapulting Saint Phalle into the ranks of avant-garde artistic rebellion. The ""Tirs"" combined performance, body art, sculpture, and painting, in the artistic ferment of the"
"Shot Marilyns The Shot Marilyns is a work of art produced in 1964 by Andy Warhol. It consists of four canvases, each a square measuring 40 inches and each consisting of a painting of a Marilyn Monroe, each shot through in the forehead by a single bullet. Warhol actually painted five colored Marilyns in 1964 with different colored backgrounds: red, orange, light blue, sage blue, and turquoise and he stored them at The Factory, his studio on East 47th Street in Manhattan. Dorothy Podber (1932–2008), a friend of Factory photographer Billy Name, saw the recently completed paintings stacked against one"
"at the Toronto International Film Festival. On television, aside from ""Girls"", she has played guest roles in ""Scandal"" and ""The Simpsons"" (both 2015). In 2017, she portrayed Valerie Solanas in ""."" Dunham's work and her outspoken presence on social media and in interviews have attracted significant controversy, criticism, and media scrutiny throughout her career. Dunham was born in New York City. Her father, Carroll Dunham, is a painter, and her mother, Laurie Simmons, is an artist and photographer, and a member of The Pictures Generation, known for her use of dolls and dollhouse furniture in her photographs of setup interior"
"to be a fragment of a larger photograph taken by Susan Meiselas during the Sandinista Revolution (1979). After the ""Riot"" exhibition closed, Meiselas's lawyer contacted Garnett with a cease and desist letter claiming copyright infringement and ""piracy"" of Meiselas' photograph. Popular support for Garnett and her artwork, marshalled via Rhizome.org, inspired a solidarity campaign called ""Joywar"", in which images of Garnett's painting were reposted widely on the Internet, or remixed and circulated in new forms. The incident has become a prominent case-study of re-use in art. Joy Garnett Joy Garnett (born 1965 ) is a painter and writer in Brooklyn,"
"his supporters shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, in a ballroom at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Leaving the ballroom, he went through the hotel kitchen after being told it was a shortcut to a press room. He did this despite being advised by his bodyguard — former FBI agent Bill Barry — to avoid the kitchen. In a crowded kitchen passageway, Kennedy turned to his left and shook hands with busboy Juan Romero just as Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian, opened fire with a .22-caliber revolver. Kennedy was hit three times, and five other people were"
"the art world consider Warhol's work completed after his 1968 shooting—which occurred the day before the Bobby Kennedy assassination—to be less significant than that done before it. The best-remembered Warhol Campbell's Soup can works are from the first phase. Warhol is further regarded for his iconic serial celebrity silkscreens of such people as Elvis Presley, Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor, produced during his 1962–1964 silkscreening phase. His most commonly repeated painting subjects are Taylor, Monroe, Presley, Jackie Kennedy and similar celebrities. In addition to being a notable fine artist, Warhol was a renowned cinematographer, author, and commercial illustrator. Posthumously, he"