1964
Jimmy Slattery (aka Candy Darling) meets Harold
Azjenberg (aka Holly Woodlawn).
Early 1964—Jack Smith uses the word superstar in
print, in Gnauoua.
January—Warhol shoots Screen Test #1, featuring
Ronald Tavel interrogating Philip Fagan.
January 17-20—Jonas Mekas screens Sleep at the
Gramercy Arts Theater.
Warhol buys his first tape recorder.
Late January—Billy Linich starts to renovate the raw
space at 231 East Forty-seventh Street, and by February
he makes the Factory his primary residence.
c. February—Warhol begins a romantic/sexual relationship
with Billy Linich; it lasts a few months,
but their closeness continues long afterward.
February 1—Scheduled date for the first publication of
Stable, edited by Gerard Malanga, published by
Eleanor Ward, with cover by Andy Warhol. The
magazine never materialized.
February 2—Warhol films Robert Indiana in a twenty-seven-
minute film, Eat; it is first shown July 16,
1964, at the Filmmakers' Cinematheque.
February 14—Mario Montez and Jack Smith, both living
at 89 Grand Street, invite Andy and others to
view an in-progress version of Normal Love.
(Smith will never finish the film.)
February 18—Tarzan and Jane Regained...Sort Of
premieres at the Grammercy Arts Theater.
March 4—Edie Sedgwick's brother Minturn hangs
himself on the day before his twenty-sixth birthday.
Shortly thereafter she meets Chuck Wein.
March 23—Taylor Mead stars in LeRoi Jones's The
Baptism and Frank O'Hara's The General Returns
from One Place to Another, for which he wins an
Obie award.
April—Warhol installs the Thirteen Most Wanted Men
series at the New York World's Fair, but governor
Nelson Rockefeller objects. On April 16 Philip
Johnson informs Warhol that he has twenty-four
hours to replace or remove the mural. On April 17 Warhol instructs that his mural be painted over
silver.
April 20—Edie Sedgwick's twenty-first birthday party
is held at the Harvard Boat House; she comes into
a trust fund from her maternal grandmother.
April 21—Warhol's exhibition of trompe l'oeil sculptures
of about four hundred grocery boxes opens
at the Stable Gallery. The post-opening party is
the first public event held at the Factory.
Spring—Leo Castelli invites Warhol to join his gallery,
and Warhol accepts.
Spring—During his last term at Syracuse University,
Lou Reed writes "Heroin" and "I'm Waiting for
My Man."
Spring—Warhol films Batman/Dracula, starring Jack
Smith; it is never screened.
Spring and summer—Warhol films three-minute
silent scenes for Couch.
Early May—Edie Sedgwick arrives in New York.
June—Before graduating from Syracuse University,
Betsey Johnson is invited to work at Mademoiselle
magazine, where she quickly learns about
fashion.
June—Lou Reed graduates from Syracuse University
with honors.
July 25-26—Warhol shoots Empire, with concept by
John Palmer.
September—Lou Reed begins working for Pickwick
International; during the next five months he
publishes at least five songs.
September 5—Warhol films Taylor Mead's Ass, starring
Taylor Mead.
Fall—John Cale moves into an apartment with Tony
Conrad at 56 Ludlow Street.
Fall—Dorothy Podber visits the Factory, pulls out a
gun, and shoots a stack of four Marilyn paintings
through the forehead.
Late September—Four Warhol films (Sleep, Eat, Haircut,
and Kiss) are represented at the New York
Film Festival by three-minute loops, each played
simultaneously in the lobby on four Fairchild 400 projectors, with a score by La Monte Young.
October—Warhol meets Philip Fagan, who becomes
his boyfriend.
October 27—Freddie Herko goes to John Dodd's
apartment in Greenwich Village, puts on Mozart's
Coronation Mass, dances naked out a fifth-floor
window, and dies.
November—Warhol meets Ronald Tavel, introduced
by Gerard Malanga at the Café Le Metro.
November 21—Warhol's exhibition of Flower paintings
opens at the Leo Castelli Gallery.
November—Warhol buys an Auricon sound camera.
December 7—At midnight Warhol receives the sixth
annual Film Culture award, cited by Jonas Mekas,
for Sleep, Haircut, Kiss, Eat, and Empire.
December 13—Warhol shoots his first sound film,
Harlot, scenario by Ronald Tavel, starring Mario
Montez, Gerard Malanga, Billy Linich, and others.
December 31—On New Year's Eve Edie Sedgwick's
brother Bobby crashes his motorcycle and dies
eleven days later. In California Edie crashes a car,
which is totaled, but Edie emerges with only small
facial scars and her leg in a cast.
December—Tom Wolfe calls Jane Holzer "Girl of the
Year."
Late 1964—Warhol and Malanga begin Thermofax
series.
