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When radical feminist theorist Valerie Solanas shot Andy Warhol, the newspaper headline read
Andy Warhol Shot by Actress, Cries 'He Controlled My Life'.
The reporting was lazy and fitted a pre-existing perception that Warhol was surrounded by crazy 'art people' and unbalanced 'superstars'.
Though Solanas was abused, dismissed or ignored throughout her life, history has since recognised her as one of the most important radical feminist theorists of the 20th Century.
Here the artist revises and corrects the historical news story, according Solanas the respect of referring to her by name, noting her agency, and describing her target anonymously, but accurately, as an artist.