Flash—November 22, 1963

1968 · Portfolio

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1963–1968
Warhol the filmmaker: hundreds of reels
From 1963 to 1968 Warhol shot several hundred reels: 472 four-minute portrait Screen Tests, dozens of short films and more than 150 narrative films, only 60 of which were ever released.
1966
Manager of The Velvet Underground
In 1966 Warhol began managing the experimental rock band The Velvet Underground and let them rehearse at the Factory; he also financed their debut album, The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967).
1968
Moderna Museet exhibition and the “Electric Chairs”
By then Warhol had largely stopped painting, but he soon resumed and produced the Big Electric Chair paintings for his 1968 exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
3 June 1968
The shooting at the Factory
The writer Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, who had appeared in his film I, a Man, shot Warhol and the art critic Mario Amaya; Amaya was lightly injured, while Warhol was seriously wounded and spent nearly two months in hospital. Solanas turned herself in to the police a few hours later, saying that Warhol had too much control over her life.
autumn 1969
Founding Interview magazine
Together with the British journalist John Wilcock, Warhol founded Interview magazine, at first published as inter/VIEW: A Monthly Film Journal. It was revamped a few years later and came to reflect Warhol's social life and fascination with celebrity.