On June 3, 1968, Pop artist and filmmaker Andy Warhol survived an assassination attempt at his studio, the Factory. Radical feminist writer Valerie Solanas opened fire with a handgun, striking Warhol
Front page of the Daily News (June 4, 1968)
The Decker Building at 33 Union Square West, where the incident took place on the sixth floor
Mario Amaya walks to ambulance with back wound.
Critically wounded, Andy Warhol is carried into an ambulance.
The Factory
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The Factory was pop artist Andy Warhol's New York City studio and the center of his artistic, social, and filmmaking activities from 1964 to 1987. Originally located at 231 East 47th Street, the first
Warhol with his stuffed Great Dane Cecil and members of the Factory: Candy Darling against the wall, Brigid Berlin taking a Polaroid photo, Geraldine Smith on a leash, Jed Johnson holding a camera, Gerard Malanga hanging on the wall, and Ingrid Superstar leashed to the wall. This photo by Claude Picasso was published in Esquire (December 1969).
The third incarnation of the Factory was located at 860 Broadway.
This trunk was used at Warhol's Silver Factory as a storage unit and film prop. Edie Sedgwick sits on this trunk in Vinyl (1965). After Warhol died in 1987, negatives of photographs by Billy Name were found inside the trunk, as well as the script of Up Your Ass (1965) by Valerie Solanas, which was thought to have been lost.