On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas, author of the SCUM Manifesto, walked into Andy Warhol’s studio, the Factory, and shot him. Warhol survived the 1968 shooting—but his body, his art, and the world he had built around himself would never be the same.

Solanas had wanted Warhol to produce her play, Up Your Ass. How did their uneasy association lead to an attempted murder? And what happened to Warhol after the headlines moved on?

Behind one of art history’s most notorious shootings is a story of thwarted ambition, celebrity, and a studio where the boundaries between art and life were dangerously thin. Its consequences followed Warhol for nearly nineteen years.

Explore the story further in the companion Verso Dossier, featuring the people, timeline, artworks, and archival photographs behind the episode, plus a few strange details that didn’t make it into the story.

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