Episode 55: Andy Warhol: The Silver Wears Off The Factory - Part 1
This episode begins the chronicle of The Factory’s downward slide. If you work with and entertain people living on society’s fringes, things happen…some good, some not so good. Add a constant flow of amphetamines and acid and the not so good can take a deadly turn. During this time, Andy Warhol was easily the most famous artist in America and enjoyed being the messiah of cool, until all of that changed on June 3, 1969.
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Scroll to 7:42 to hear Warhol’s quote about not running out of people. Video courtesy of the BBC.
(Top to bottom): Portrait of Andy Warhol and his entourage of Superstars by Cecil Beaton, 1969. (Left to right: Brigid Berlin, Candy Darling, Warhol and Ultra Violet), portrait of Factory archivist Billy Name, front page of the New York Daily News (June 4, 1968) the day Warhol was shot, Songs for Drella album art
Andy Warhol Timeline (Rebecca Lowrey)
Andy Warhol Biography
(MoMA, The Andy Warhol Museum, Wikipedia)
“Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film” by Ric Burns
- Part 1 (YouTube), Part 2 (YouTube)
“Who Was Valerie Solanas, the Feminist Revolutionary Who Shot Andy Warhol?” (ARTnews article)
“Billy Name’s Factory Photographs” (New Yorker article)